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When "Donal" (Alan Cumming) discovers from his daughter that his long estranged brother isn't keeping so well, he heads back from the States where he had a successful club (until it caught fire) to the Scottish family brewery he abandoned some forty years earlier. His daughter "Amy" (Alexandra Shipp) and his granddaughter "Sasha" (Alexandra Wilkie) have long maintained a relationship with "Sandy" (Brian Cox) but for "Donal" this is going to be quite a traumatic reconciliation, and once he arrives at their beautiful Highland home he realises that he has some fence mending to do. His arrival als…

Told by way of an one-sided and fairly heart-rending retrospective, this tells us the story about two gents "Benji" (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan) and "Jake" (David Tag) who have their flight cancelled and so start chatting at the airport. The former is a gay lad without two pennies to rub together and who lives with his mum. The latter is a successful, straight, personal trainer to the footballing community of England's North West. Quite swiftly they go from chatting to drinking to sharing holes in each other's lives. The only conditions are that they only hook up in Amsterdam and, of course, there are …

If you remember the "Tomorrow People" (1973) then you will get the gist of this family adventure. "Layla" and her father have been forced to hide out at a secret lab with her cousin "Khalid" and where she swiftly befriends "Aysha" and "Abdullah". What goes on in this place? Well it turns out that they are soon to be guinea pigs in a time travel trial. You see, they get a special watch that they can adjust, join hands then off they go. On one such trip, they accidentally travel back to a Baghdad of the 9th century. No problem, they simply have to recalibrate their gizmos and return home. Well, …

Ferzen Özpetek convenes a selection of people he hopes to cast in his latest (this) film, and after plying them with a fine lunch and plenty of vino, they are given a draft script to read through. The story they now read centres around a fashion house that specialises in costumes for movie stars and that is run by sisters "Alberta" (Luisa Ranieri) and "Gabriella" (Jasmine Trinca). The former is a fastidious task-master, the latter seems distracted by something and appears often to have a glass in her hand. When Oscar winning designer "Bianca" (Vanessa Scalera) arrives with her creatively ambit…

Cleaner starts off with great potential. The lead character is like a young tough Keira Knightley. She's a likable modern urban girl. Then bad guys arrived led by Clive Owen - who's always had great movies. But here he pays the bad guy and only makes a short appearance. (So, bad, and then bad again.) The bad guys are then led by a psycho with lots of violence. The potential was great, and there's lots of crime + police action. I just didn't want it to be a story about the psycho guy. This is a British modern version of Die Hard except Bruce is a young acrobatic girl. Some good t…

39/100 The movie basically details all the events concerning two siblings (who robbed a casino and killed a cop) and a recently paroled convict (who attacked his former boss) while on the run from the law through full winter country. With that premise and the big names in the film, I didn't expect it to be so dull. After the exciting and promising opening, the film painfully studies characters that are uninteresting and, in most cases, unlikable and continues to drag us along to a climax that is just a peg or two above ho hum. - DrNostromo.com…

Fellow movie fans, I cannot warn you enough to not waste your time watching this drivel. Zombie pirates, treastue, all that sounds good. They are promises that are left unfulfilled in this lame duck of a movie. It's not a B-movie, it's more like a z-minus. Lame. Lame. Lame. I hope that this warning saves you some of your valuable time.…

87/100 From the director of "The Grudge" comes this story about a director who is making a film about a slaughter that took place in a hotel 35 years ago. From the time she gets the script, his starring actress is haunted by visions of what really happened. I see a lot of horror movies and I like many of them as I like the genre. But, considering I see a lot, it's very rare for me to see one that is this good! Creepy as hell, the thrill ride never stops and the end is mind blowing. Brilliantly twisted!!…

**_A gambler and a sheriff team-up to steal gold bullion_** This is a quirky Western comedy in the tradition of "McLintock," "Cat Ballou" and "Texas Across the River” with the obsessive lust for lucre being inspired by “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” It’s about on par with “McLintock” and superior to “Cat Ballou,” but not on the level of "Texas Across the River,” at least in my opinion. The best part is the amusing teaming-up of James Coburn (the gambler) and Carroll O'Connor (the sheriff). Claude Akins, Timothy Carey, Bruce Dern and James Whitmore are also on hand. Blonde beau…

Given the whole slew of Jackson's involved in this stylish production, I couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed by the hollowness of the whole thing. Certainly Jaafar Jackson has something of his uncle's charm and childlike vulnerability, but were we not to have known he was a member of the actual family then I'm not sure I'd have been that convinced by his acting characterisation away from the dance floor. In any case, we begin with his ten year old (or is that eight?) younger years; with the domestic brutality at the hands of their domineering father Joe (Colman Domingo) whilst powerless …