Review

Sebastian Junger’s tribute to his late friend, a gifted war photographer with whom he co-directed the Oscar-nominated Restrepo , is more sincere obituary than searching doc. It’s a portrait of the man rather than an investigation of the craft which took him to the combat zones of Afghanistan and ultimately …

The second movie this year (after The Wolverine ) to begin with an atomic strike on Japan, Peter Webber’s post-WW2 yarn finds Tommy Lee Jones’ General MacArthur in the horns of a dilemma. Should Emperor Hirohito hang for Pearl Harbor or be kept alive as the figurehead of an unoccupied …

When Canadian athlete Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in the 100 metre final of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, it opened a can of steroid-pumped worms. Daniel Gordon’s documentary brings together all eight competitors in the race, and in the process …

Once Upon A Time 2.22 “And Straight On ‘Til Morning” TV Review (opens in new tab) Episode 2.22 Writer: Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz Director: Dean White THE ONE WHERE In the past: Young Bae adjusts to life on the Jolly Roger, although he has no idea that Hook is …

“I need a direction,” mumbles Vin Diesel early in Riddick . You said it, big guy… but don’t let the whiff of self-awareness dupe you into thinking David Twohy’s threequel is the route map Diesel’s sci-fi anti-hero needs. With its low-ish budget, Riddick could have been the lean space-shocker that …

If we’re being honest, there are more mediocre TMNT video games than there were puns about shell shock in the first draft of this review. Considering the sheer quantity of of low-rent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games out there, it’s a wonder that this beat-‘em-up franchise has had such remarkable …

“Kiss my fucking axe!” growls one of Steinar’s (Charlie Bexley) Viking warriors, anachronistically. The year, after all, is 871, and their mission is to cross a (suspiciously) sparsely populated Snowdonia looking for their tribe’s AWOL heir, overcoming Saxons and heathen intrigue on the way. Gamely directed and acted, but a …

Are you ready?” asks a peripheral figure at the start of Shane Carruth’s second film as writer/director/ producer/ editor/ composer/ star. Seeing as his first was the dizzyingly complex time-travel classic Primer (2004) and Upstream Colour is even harder to follow – part love story, part biological conspiracy – the …

True Blood 6.07 “In The Evening” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 6.07 Writer: Kate Barnow Director: Scott Winant THE ONE WHERE Eric and a dying Nora escape from the complex; Eric tells Bill he thinks he’s a God and asks him to help save his sister. In return, …

Episode: 3.09 Writers: Bradley Thompson & David Weddle Director: Jonathan Frakes THE ONE WHERE: Tom returns to Charleston, just as Lourdes commits a major act of sabotage that leads to a life and death struggle among the rubble. THE VERDICT: It’s a chillingly embittered Tom Mason we meet in this …