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The Switch, Screenjabber
Tick, tick, tick – what’s that? It’s Jennifer Aniston’s biological clock, which is watched, hawk-like, by many a magazine. Miss Aniston’s womb has proved extremely fruitful... Certified Copy, Screenjabber
There’s a delightfully simple premise behind Certified Copy, also known as Copie Conforme. An unnamed Frenchwoman (Binoche) sits in a Tuscan café... Whip It, Screenjabber
When did you last see a sports film about indie misfits? Let’s face it: sports movies for teenagers are either weepy Disney underdog stories or badly-written rebel-goes-good tripe... Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour, Virgin Media
"New mouth, new rules," says Matt Smith’s Doctor. He's experimenting with his new digestive system, but he could mean playing the Doctor. Talk about pressure... The Unloved, Screenjabber
Last time a news story broke about a child dying as a result of abuse or neglect, and the tabloids shrieked about how social workers had failed in the line of duty... Sherlock Holmes, Screenjabber
Downey Jr plays that most British of sleuths, Sherlock Holmes, in this new take on an old franchise, with Law as his long-suffering sidekick, Watson... Wall Street 2 preview, DVD & Blu-ray Review
Of all the people who could have shown up to warn Wall Street that financial Armageddon was on the way, you probably wouldn't expect Gordon "greed is good" Gekko... Harry Potter 7 preview, DVD & Blu-ray Review
As Harry and chums near the end of their formative years, the final novel in JK Rowling's epic wizardry series is getting the screen treatment... Up in the Air preview, DVD & Blu-ray Review
Can Juno director Jason Reitman produce a character with a less desirable job than Nick Naylor, the tobacco lobbyist in his debut feature Thank You For Smoking? Why, yes he can... Glorious 39, Screenjabber
It's always tempting to draw comparisons between films, whether that's pointing out that two movies both have Sunshine in the title and Alan Arkin in the cast... Amelia, Screenjabber
The ingredients are decent enough: a pioneering woman, namely Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic... Bright Star, Screenjabber
There's something missing from Bright Star. It's not talent - as anyone who's seen Ben Whishaw at work before will know, he's got broody and interesting down pat... An Education, Screenjabber
Journalist Lynn Barber was all set to attend Oxford University, until an older man swept her off her feet and derailed her life plans. Her parents didn't dissuade her... Away We Go, Screenjabber
There's a moment in Away We Go when pregnant Verona (Rudolph) remembers how her own mother was 25 when she had her... Cracks, Film 4
Teenage girls are strange, complicated creatures, as anyone who's been or met one will know. You can't underestimate the life-or-death significance of social status... Management, Film 4
It's a formula we've seen before: boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, girl isn't so smitten. But while (500) Days Of Summer and other, quirkier tales of love unrequited add a winsome spin... Vinyan, SFX
Taking its name from a Thai word for a restless spirit, Vinyan toys with the idea of boundaries shifting between the realms of the living and the dead... Afterschool, Filmstar
There's no shortage of on-screen misfits who are overly fond of their video cameras, and now the zeitgeist has gone 2.0... Bandslam, Filmstar
Will Burton (Gaelan Connell), a misfit muso with a Napoleon Dynamite 'fro, escapes his daily high school hell by writing letters to David Bowie... Coco Before Chanel, Filmstar
A whirlwind of Chanel fever has been whipping up lately; Coco Before Chanel is just a part of it. Karl Lagerfeld celebrated what would have been Chanel’s 125th birthday... Adam, Filmstar
There are two somewhat disparate stories that are jostling for room here. One is a delicate drama in which Hugh Dancy is astonishingly convincing... The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Filmstar
At first glance, Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) appears to be living in simple bourgeois misery. Married to respected publisher Herb (Alan Arkin), with two grown-up children... Sunshine Cleaning, Filmstar
You wouldn't think scrubbing a blood-stained bathroom with a toothbrush could signify hope or change, but for single mother Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) it's a ticket out... Rudo y Cursi, Filmstar
The director's name is Cuarón. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna co-star. All of which makes it sound rather like Alfonso Cuarón’s debut, Y tu mamá también, but it's Alfonso’s brother... Fifty Dead Men Walking, Screenjabber
It’s a risky business, turning Queen’s Evidence. You could get away with it. You could end up dead and/or reviled by all: "I don’t blame the IRA for killing him, I blame my son..." The Devil’s Whore, DVD & Blu-ray Review
Don't expect a watertight history lesson from The Devil's Whore - those seeking a 17th-century cheat sheet should look elsewhere. This is all about flourish... The Duchess, DVD & Blu-ray Review
"You do get flashes of Voldemort..." says Hayley Atwell in the Making Of for The Duchess. She's not kidding either - Ralph Fiennes' ice-cold Duke of Devonshire is really quite scary... In Search of a Midnight Kiss, DVD & Blu-ray Review
A former video store clerk (the job of choice for indie slackers), writer-director Alex Holdridge was used to seeing miserable people renting stacks of tapes during the festive period... Xavier Rudd gig preview, Metro
Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd takes the one-man band concept to extremes. More of a one-man orchestra, he tends to show up onstage with cymbals strapped to his knees... April DVD previews, Odeon
A Disney princess has to cope with life in the real world in this fairytale with a twist. Giselle (Amy Adams) is set to marry handsome-but-dim Prince Edward (James Marsden)... March DVD previews, Odeon
He played Sienna Miller's brother in 2005's Casanova and now Charlie Cox wants her hand in marriage in this magical fantasy adventure adapted from the novel by Neil Gaiman... March film previews, Odeon
Jim Carrey has proved he can handle cartoon-style characters with star turns in The Mask, The Grinch and Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events... Movie reviews for Virgin Media
I've written hundreds of mini reviews for Virgin Media Movies. Here are a few examples:
8 Mile, 28 Days Later, 30 Days of Night, 50 First Dates, About a Boy, Children of Men, The Dark Knight, Donnie Darko, Finding Nemo, Garden State, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hot Fuzz, Inglourious Basterds, Jennifer's Body, Julie and Julia, Juno, Let the Right One In, Marley and Me, Minority Report, Monsters, Inc, Motherhood, Public Enemies, Saw, Shaun of the Dead, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, State of Play, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Synecdoche, New York, War of the Worlds.
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