The Muppets [2011]
Director: James Bobin
Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones
TOTALLY WORTH THE FOUR MONTHS EXTRA WE IN THE UK HAD TO WAIT!!
‘Gomorra’ (Gommorrah) – Review
Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Cantalupo, Gigio Morra, Salvatore Abruzzese, Marco Macor, Ciro Petrone
This had all the danger signs. A critically acclaimed, Cannes award winning, Italian social-realist film, being sold on the Criterion Collection? This sounds as though is going to be so pretentious it’ll make James Cameron look like Gandhi…
‘Four Lions’ – Review
Director: Chris Morris
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Akhtar
This is a film about terrorism. Yeah….
‘War Horse’ (2011)
Director: Stephen Speilberg
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch (and a really well trained horse)
Yes, I liked this. I shouldn’t have – but I succumbed to the Spielberg whimsy. I know – what kind of critic am I?
‘The Artist’ [2011] – Review
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo
If this time last year someone said “The biggest movie event of the year will be a silent film directed by a Frenchman, inspired by Hollywood, and starring a mish-mash of French, American, and English actors” I would’ve laughed until the release of Avatar 2…
2011 Re-Cap
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Well, it’s that time of the year. The time where audiences vote for crap and critics vote for something no-one has ever heard of. Yep – its Top 10 time!
Top 5 Films of 2011

I wanted to make a Top 10 Films of 2011 list (truly I did), but I feel there’s too many essentials that I have yet to see before I can make a completely accurate one. (Amongst those essentials are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,Hugo, Moneyball, The Skin I Live In, The Ides of March, The Descendants, Moneyball, Midnight in Paris, The Artist, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and the list goes on.) Read the rest of this entry
Winnie The Pooh (2011) – Review
Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Starring: John Cleese, Jim Cummings, Travis Oates, Tom Kenny, Bud Luckey
I suppose this isnt really a review – more like an advertisement. Why? Press the ‘More’ button my dear reader….
Manos: The Restoration
This is an incredibly controversial, yet entirely true fact: Manos: The Hands of Fate is the most important film of all time. Therefore, this is a call to every film enthusiast in the world to help preserve this essential centerpiece of the medium.
‘Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows’ – Reveiw
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace
Its not as good as the first, but still contains all the various elements that made the first instalment a surprise sucess. Review over.
OK, there is a lot more to talk about…