This is a cracking film. Good Vibrations tells the bizarre but largely true story of Terri Hooley. Terri (who strikes me as someone that should be more of a legend than he is) ran a record shop (Good Vibrations of the title) in Great Victoria Street in Belfast. Not that extraordinary, except that this was … Read more
Danny Boyle’s latest is an intoxicating mix of heist movies like the Bank Job, Inception, Memento and with the hallucination scenes from Boyle’s 127 Hours thrown in.  James McAvoy plays Simon, the inside man in an auction house art robbery who stashes the painting and after suffering a bang on the head can’t remember where … Read more
Frank (played by Frank Langella) is a retired jewel thief who’s paid the price for his previous sins via stints in jail, but who clearly has enough buried stash to live out his retirement in relative comfort and provide for his kids, Madison (played by the infrequently seen Liv Tyler) and Hunter (played by X-men … Read more
OK – so if you like your movies dark, then this one is definitely for you. I went into this in the blissful position of not knowing a thing about it…. given the title I had assumed somehow that it might have some loose connotations to the Dracula author or something. But no (the title, … Read more
But a bad day to waste two hours of your life… This is not a good film. The dialogue is dreadful – “file this, file that”, blah, blah, blah … “John… What happened to ‘Dad’”, blah, blah, blah. The acting is only marginally better… Bruce Willis plays, well, Bruce Willis; Jai Courtney, as John McClane … Read more