The war correspondent is given pride of place as the unsung hero of modern warfare in Renny Harlin’s 5 Days of War, a fictionalised drama set during the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. Aiming to entertain as much as edify, Harlin (Die Hard 2) follows the example Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone and Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond by using Hollywood heroism to shed damming, albeit biased, light on a contemporary conflict.

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Remember back in 1983 when the fated, final clash between two sparking sabres – one green, the other red – evoked the kind of wide-eyed wonderment that now, nearly three decades later, still manages to send a tingle down your spine?

I don’t. I was still six years away from being born. And as much as I have come to appreciate the Star Wars saga in the years since, its pleasures [...]

Sure, the Norwegian mock-doc The Troll Hunter begins almost identically to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, but I can assure you it’s not your average found-footage movie. Just give writer/director André Ovredal a good twenty minutes to find his own voice, and before you know it, you’ll be knee-deep in one of the most enjoyable and amusing movies to ever involve shaky camerawork, terrified documentarians and things that go bump [...]

Insidious is the new horror film from Australian director James Wan, the co-creator of the SAW franchise, but don’t hold that against him.

This is an good ol’ fashioned haunting, one with a tangible  atmosphere, strong performances and plenty of skin-crawling scares. Initially, you might argue it’s a copy of Poltergiest — indeed, its similarities are many — but Insidious, for better and worse, does eventually stand on its own two [...]

Not long ago, Duncan “Zowie” Jones’ biggest claim to fame was simply being the son of superstar spaceman Ziggy Stardust, or as he’s known to most mortal Earthlings, David Bowie. But that all changed when he deftly directed the indie sci-fi hit Moon, notably without the aid of any glitter or hairspray — a sure sign that his father had little to do with it.

But while Moon [...]

To use the immortal words of Feargal Sharkey: a good heart these days is hard to find. In a world of fearing and cynical people, all humans want is to find someone with a good heart that will respond to them the way they need them to. The people that enter our lives for one reason or another come from all parts of society and age, gender nor race affect [...]