LILLY WACHOWSKI, LANA WACHOWSKI Bil’s rating (out of 5): B. USA/Australia/Germany, 2008. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, Anarchos Productions, Velocity Productions, Studio Babelsberg. Screenplay by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, based … Continue reading →
SIMON WEST Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1997. Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Kouf/Bigelow Productions, Runway Pictures, Hiett Designs of Las Vegas. Screenplay by Scott Rosenberg. Cinematography by David Tattersall. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Music by Mark … Continue reading →
BBBB (out of 5) Ridiculously loud Bond adventure is still a top-notch thrill even in its weakest moments. This time a darker side of Bond is attempted as our hero … Continue reading →
BB (out of 5) Painfully boring comedy from the usually more imaginative George Lucas tries to pay tribute to the “good old days” of moviemaking but falls flat on its … Continue reading →
B.5 (out of 5) Great characters and strong performances are wasted by lame direction in this gross misfire. While visiting Mexico to secure an important business deal and get his … Continue reading →
BB.5 (out of 5) Following their rescue of Chancellor Palpatine from the separatist Droid army, headstrong Annakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) finds himself wavering between his devotion to the Jedi and … Continue reading →
BBBB.5 (out of 5) Vast improvement on Episode One of the Star Wars series’ adventures continues the story from The Phantom Menace ten years later with a grown up Anakin … Continue reading →
BBBB (out of 5) Solid good fun from George Lucas’ fertile imagination that precedes the events in his 1977 blockbuster Star Wars. In this episode, the story suffers from a … Continue reading →
B (out of 5) Disappointing remake of the science-fiction classic by Robert Wise. Jennifer Connelly plays a biology professor whose home life is difficult thanks to the death of her husband … Continue reading →
BBB (out of 5) Writer-director Pen Densham has taken Daniel Defoe’s literary heroine and fashioned his own original story based on her character. It’s not as disrespectful to the classic … Continue reading →
BBBB (out of 5) It’s not that difficult a task to make a sequel that would outdo the very disappointing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, but this terrific action film manages … Continue reading →
BBB (out of 5) Beautifully filmed story that never really achieves what it’s going after. Tom Hanks gives a kindly and powerful performance as a prison warden in the death-row cellblock … Continue reading →
