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giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn commented X-Men Origins: Wolverine: A Review (giraffeversusunicorn)

I enjoy fights and explosions as much as the next guy, but a film for me has got to offer something more than -just- that. It's been a few weeks since I watched this, and I don't intend to revisit it anytime ever - I remember there being explosions (the particularly cliched one with Jackman walking into the camera springs to mind), but I don't remember any of the fights, given that they were all between seemingly indestructible characters. =)

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote a review of Deadgirl

Given the schlock of some recent horror/zombie films, once hearing of the plot for Deadgirl, or seeing the trailer, you'd be forgiven for writing this one off. But it's not the repulsive mess that you'd Read the article

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote a review of Lost in Translation

In Sofia Coppola's second outing as a feature film director, Lost In Translation has her overseeing Scarlet Johansson and Bill Murray in a film which plays to both's strengths wonderfully. Murray plays Read the article

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote a review of Sunshine

Danny Boyle's Sunshine is a gorgeous psychological thriller set in the confines of the Icarus II space station, as it makes it's way towards the sun to deliver a bomb that will reignite the dieing star. The Read the article

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote a review of Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married takes a family wedding and turns it on it's head with the arrival of Kym, the titular character's younger sibling, who comes equipped with a luggage-load of problems. Oscar nominated Read the article

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote a review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine

It is without question that Batman Begins and more so The Dark Knight have changed the way in which comic books are brought to the big screen. Gritty and dark in tone, the reverberations that they have Read the article

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote about Frost/Nixon

Ron Howard helms this political thriller and twists it just enough so that it begins to resemble a boxing match. Frank Langella puts in an towering performance as Richard Nixon who holds Michael Sheen's David Frost at arms length during their first few encounters on screen. Frost is shaken, stunned and on the ropes until a drunken late night phone call from Nixon allows him a way back into the fight.

8 stars

giraffeversusunicorn giraffeversusunicorn wrote a review of Transformer: Revenge

Unbearably long, barely acted and filled with more sweeping camera shots than any other Michael Bay-directed movie before it, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is a terrible, lumbering behemoth of a Read the article