“She’s the One” is a story about two brothers and their contrasting relationships with their wives, friends and family. It is a romantic comedy that examines commitment and priorities in life. Download the pdf discussion guide for the complete resource. Link : IMDb entry Download:  Discussion Guide for She’s The One (pdf)

This is a valiant effort, it takes on some challenging material in Frank Millar’s Sin City comic series and pulls it off without spoiling Frank’s original art work, if anything this movie adds to Frank’s vision.

 Frank Millar’s comic series “Sin City” is an ambitious and violent series, it’s characters are potent, violent, morally questionable [...]

In a world where superheroes actually have families one question is raised… Where do the children of superheroes study? Sure, the TV series “Smallville” suggests that Superman could go to high school and not be discovered, but imagine if we’re talking about 600 adolescents, all who are coming to terms with their new found powers [...]

The movie by renowned SA film director, Scott Hicks, is a beautifully crafted adaption of the best selling 1995 novel of the same name by David Guterson. It is set in the north west of America, and deals with the story of the death of a fisherman (Carl) in what appears to the townspeople to [...]

This is ‘Jaws’, set in a placid lake in the mountains. Credibility is stretched to breaking point, as you’d expect. Does Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) really fit the bill for a surgeon cum paleontologist? How on earth did crocs find their way to a mountain lake in Maine? It’s a ‘Saturday arvo at the flicks’ [...]

There is no ‘plot’, as such. The story is contained within a single 24 hour period – ‘a day in the life of…’ The film is a snapshot of nine individuals, some of them family groupings. Some of the lives intersect – in love, in hate. Some seek reconciliation and relationship, others turn away or [...]

The Miss United States Pageant, hallowed and revered home of American beauty for the past fifty years, has received a death threat from a ‘unabomber’ type criminal. The FBI plans to get one of their agents into the pageant, undercover, as a contestant and fix the judging so she’s on stage right to the end [...]

Michael Keaton plays the role of Doug, the man with too much to do and too little time (sound familiar?). From the opening shot of the busy freeways, and the stress at work and home, the viewer will identify with Doug, caught in the modern dilemma of spiralling demands and pressures. The film is essentially [...]

This is a fairly decent cinematic portrayal of C.S Lewis’ story of the children’s first visit to Narnia through the magical wardrobe in the house of the professor. There are a number of differences between the film and the story, but many of the differences can quite easily be overlooked. My first observation is that [...]

Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) is a beautiful, American actress visiting London. She wanders into a bookshop in Notting Hill owned by William Thacker (Hugh Grant). After this first meeting, they meet again by accident and begin a relationship. The central theme developed in the movie is, can the most famous film star in the world [...]