Sacha Baron Cohen‘s latest installment in The Dictator is as rude, sexist and offensive as ever before and it had me laughing the whole way through. Cohen’s role as General Aladeen is played to perfection as we watch the North African dictator risk his life to ensure that democracy never exists in his country.
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After the successful Borat and not so successful Bruno, Cohen knows how to offend everyone and he doesn’t let up here. Some of the humour seems like it is taken too far but it’s the extremeness of it all that is just hilarious and works perfectly. Numerous times I was laughing when I was trying not to! Dictator Aladeen pokes fun at all races, cultures, genders (well, mainly females) and any demographic imaginable as he travels to the USA to defend his country against the UN.  Continue reading →

Wish you were here is arguably the best Aussie film to come out since Animal Kingdom. It’s wildly unique in it’s editing, plot and the way it shows events, constantly changing between the past and present. It also feels disturbingly real and shows the dangers of travelling.
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Starring Joel Edgerton as Dave Flannery and Felicity Price as his wife Alice, they go on a holiday to south east Asia with Alice’s sister and her new found man. The opening scene of partying (featuring a great track from Aussie hip-hop band Hilltop Hoods) could not be more opposite to what follows in this movie. 

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Romantics Anonymous is a sweet, charming story from France about two emotional chocolate lovers and a blossoming romance. It’s characters are cute, plot is light and most importantly it made me laugh and left me feeling warm and fuzzy inside.
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We meet Angélique (Isabelle Carré) who is a very pretty and uncontrollably shy chocolate maker and enthusiast. She is also very talented but prefers to keep inside her shell. When she goes for a job at a struggling chocolate company owned by Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde), we quickly see that his emotions are also very extreme in that he’s highly nervous and shy around women, or even people in general.  Continue reading →

Battleship was yet another hollywood Sci-fi action movie, that for one reason or another didn’t live up to it’s budget or cast. While some actions scenes were cool, it was ultimately slow, often cheesy and had one of the most predictable scripts of all time. I found myself constantly guessing what the next line would be and constantly getting it right!
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Starring Taylor Kitsch, best known for his other 2012 Sci-fi movie John Carter, as Lieutenant Alex Hopper in the US Navy, Kitsch plays a character who in my opinion is not very likeable. Liam Neeson also features as Admiral Shane, in what was also an unusually unlikeable character as well. To top it off, Rihanna is for some reason quite a major character, and while she wasn’t actually that bad, she was still a very strange person to have fit the role as the only female on board the ship.  Continue reading →