The film explores the relationship between Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), a prison guard on Death Row (E block) at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, and a prisoner John Coffey (Michael Clark Duncan). The film is based on a six part serialised story by Stephen King (1995). The story deals with trust, love, compassion, and miracles that happen [...]

This is another comic-book-come-movie blockbuster, it’s not as dark and adult-oriented as the latest Batman Begins movie, this is for the younger people in the audience, full of fun, action, CGA and low brow humour. A group of scientists get caught in a space storm changing their DNA at a molecular level, the results are [...]

The Hurricane is based on the inspiring true life story of Robin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. Carter’s story inspired Bob Dylan’s international best selling single ‘Hurricane’. He was one of the best boxers of his time, a young man whose dreams of winning the middle-weight boxing title were destroyed when he was arrested at the peak of [...]

The Insider traces the story of Geoffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), unexpectedly dismissed from his job as a tobacco industry executive. He was gradually persuaded by Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) from the CBS ’60 Minutes’ team to ‘blow the whistle’ on the company despite a confidentiality agreement, to call them to account for blatantly lying that [...]

‘Through computerisation, the world has become a simulation – The Matrix – in which the temptation is to participate in the illusion and the answer lies in courageously pursuing the truth. A small colony of humans survive in a place called Zion, and salvation lies in the saviour-figure overcoming the power of the Matrix in [...]

The Sixth Sense is an intriguing, insightful psychological drama, if at times surprising and even shocking. The movie invites discussion about important issues – truth telling in relationships, the nature of life and death, grief, the effect of unresolved issues. A nine year old boy, Cole Sear (played brilliantly by Haley Joel Osment), is disturbed [...]

‘Can a marriage survive 15 years?’ After 15 years of marriage, Ben (Bruce Willis) and Katie (Michelle Pfeiffer) are faced with the familiar quandary of trying to work out what it is that is at the core of their marriage. Those qualities once considered endearing and engaging are now the very thing that niggle, annoy [...]

The film is ‘a rivetting thriller’ (based on the acclaimed suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith) and starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. It is set in the late 1950′s and follows the extraordinary events which take place in the life of Tom Ripley (Damon) in his quest to take on the [...]

A Synopsis to this film is probably not needed, but I’ll write one anyhow. This is the final act in the story of the birth of Darth Vader, the act in which the Emperor will cease to be in hiding and where the Jedi order is banished to the four corners of the galaxy. This [...]

Tells the story of a social studies teacher (Kevin Spacey) who gives an assignment to his junior high school class to think of an idea to change the world for the better, then put it into action. When one young student (Haley Joel Osment) creates a plan for ‘paying it forward’ favors (pyramid style!), he [...]