Read our series of ‘snippet reviews’, written for film review platform Movies XL, summarizing some of the film industry’s more obscure movies’ value in no more than two paragraphs.
Snippet Reviews
- Review: Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011)
Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, 2011. Cue scene. A girl walks into a bar. Of course, […] - Review: Road to Singapore (1940)Directed by Victor Schertzinger, 1940. Road to Singapore (1940) is the first in a series […]
- Review: Death of a Superhero (2011)Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, 2011. Superheroes like Iron Man and Batman have dominated many summers […]
- Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (2011-2012)Directed by Bill Condon, 2011-2012. It took exactly 47 seconds after starting this movie before […]
- Review: Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)Directed by Lee Toland Krieger, 2012. Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012) is the kind of […]
- Review: Cool Hand Luke (1967)Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, 1967. After being arrested for cutting the heads off parking meters, […]
- Review: Mojave Phone Booth (2006)Directed by John Putch, 2006. Perhaps the desert isn’t the loneliest place in the world […]
- Review: The Informers (2008)Directed by Gregor Jordan, 2008. Some movies make you feel that the end of the […]
- Review: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)Directed by Joel Coen, 1994. Sometimes you truly have to believe that every idea counts, […]
- Review: Perfect Sense (2011)Directed by David Mackenzie, 2011. Perfect Sense (2011); the story of a chef and a […]
- Review: Hotel Transylvania (2012)Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, 2012. When I started watching Hotel Transylvania (2012) I was unaware […]
- Review: Hasta la Vista! (2011)Directed by Geoffrey Enthoven, 2011. Hasta la Vista! (2011) is an extraordinary take on the […]
- Review: Achtste-groepers huilen niet (2012)Directed by Dennis Bots, 2012. The past decades, Dutch Cinema suffered a bad reputation among […]
- Review: Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)Directed by Gareth Carrivick, 2009. In the last two decades, there certainly was no shortage […]
- Review: P2 (2007)Directed by Franck Khalfoun, 2007. Christmas is coming and it’s time to get into the […]
- Review: Diabolik (1968)Directed by Mario Bava, 1968. “Holy heart failure,” Robin called out. The children laughed. It […]
- Review: ParaNorman (2012)Directed by Chris Butler & Sam Fell, 2012. We are truly at the dawn of […]
- Review: Rings (2005)Directed by Jonathan Liebesman, 2005. The psychological horror film The Ring (2002) and its sequel […]
- Review: Kdo chce zabít Jessii? (1966)Directed by Václav Vorlíček, 1966. Since I’m writing my master thesis on the socio-political relevance […]
- Review: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (2007)Directed by Cristian Mungiu, 2007. In 1967 Romania’s last Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu issued ‘Decree […]
- Review: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)Directed by Frank Oz, 1986. A musical horror comedy that surfaced as a necessary answer […]
- Review: Ruby Sparks (2012)Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2012. Though Ruby Sparks is still a young […]