The recent 1980s remake trend continues with this new reboot of RoboCop. Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), one of the only decent cops remaining on Detroit’s police force, is severely injured after an attempt on his life, via a car explosion.  This is the perfect opportunity needed by OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), who wants […]

More than fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most infamous of Hollywood tragedies.  Even though she had a very high ambition to succeed as an actress, she fell victim to typecasting and substance abuse.  There have been countless biographies about Marilyn over the years, with the most recent example being […]

Kathryn Bigelow follows up her Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker with another film based on the War on Terror.  In the case of Zero Dark Thirty, its a dramatization of the CIA’s search for Osama bin Laden.  These events are shown from the point of view of a feisty operative named Maya (Jessica Chastain), […]

There isn’t really too much to the story of The Ides of March, which is very by-the-book political drama.  Essentially the film follows an idealist staff member (Ryan Gosling) of a potential presidential candidate (George Clooney), who is slowly corrupted by all the backroom backstabbing that happens in the political world. The cast of the […]

You wouldn’t really expect cancer to be something that you can laugh at, however 50/50 does manage to find humour in a possibly dire situation – for the first half of the film at least. The film is about the attempts of a young man (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to cope with his diagnosis of a […]