A Very Long Engagement is taken from Sebastien Japrisot’s novel, published in 1991, about a young girl Mathilde waiting and hoping that her beau will return from the First World War. In the novel she is in a wheelchair, but director Jean-Pierre Jeunet felt it would be too restricting and so made...

Computer hacking seems like child’s play compared to the criminal activities in Inception. Entering a person’s dream world by means of a special machine, these hackers manipulate and mine the human mind for information they can sell to interested clients for a hefty price. Unfortunately, this activity...

The 2007 writers’ strike derailed Neil Jordan’s plans for a Hollywood movie, but as he’s not one to sit idle he returned to Ireland to write a story set in his own backyard. Filmed near the director’s home in Castletownbere, on the Emerald Isle’s gorgeous southwest coast, Ondine...

Am Legend, the third cinematic adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, has been in development for a very long time. Originally slated to star Arnold Schwarzenegger and be directed by Ridley Scott, this movie has kicked around for so long that by the time it has finally reached the screen, Schwarzenegger...

The premise of Law Abiding Citizen – angry father seeks revenge on the system when his daughter’s murderer gets off with a light sentence – probably sounded great in the pitch meetings but, as with all high concept motion pictures, the devil’s in the details. For a while, Gray’s thriller works...

If you have ever wished for a life where you could continually jet around the country, you might be wise to spend a couple of hours with Ryan Bingham (George Clooney). Belonging to a firm that hires out corporate downsizing experts, he specializes in doing various companies’ dirty work by telling their...

Avatar has been described as a “game-changer,” and perhaps it is. I’ll leave that for future historians to determine. What I can say with some assuredness is this is the most technically amazing motion picture to have arrived on screens in many years – perhaps since Peter Jackson’s The Return...