Originally published by Thinking Faith (12 June 2008)

If you saw Ang Lee’s 2003 movie Hulk, forget it. This is not a sequel, this is a reboot, similar to what Batman Begins and Superman Returns did for their respective franchises. Thankfully this doesn’t mean we have to sit through the same story again. In a very [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (22 May 2008)

The original Indiana Jones films were made in the 1980s and set in the 1930s but had little to do with the events of either period. The defining events of the ’30s were notably absent: the Great Depression in America, Gandhi’s fight for independence in India, the rise [...]

Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (3 April 2008)

It may have the worst title since The Pursuit of Happyness but Son of Rambow by any other name would still be “skills”, as its protagonists would say. Son of Rambow is set in the early 1980s and tells the story of two very different schoolboys. Will is [...]

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (27 Mar 2008)

The twenty-seventh instalment of the highly acclaimed ‘Dresses’ series is yet another provocative treatise on the oppressive effects of the male gaze. No no no, of course not! 27 Dresses is a good old-fashioned glossy grins and gowns romantic-comedy. On this spin of the marry-go-round we meet [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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This might seem like an historical film but The Other Boleyn Girl is much too concerned with personal relationships to care about events beyond its characters. The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary, whose desires for love and marriage are corrupted when Henry VIII crosses their paths. As a tale [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (26 Feb 2008)

In the beginning, My Blueberry Nights sees New York café-owner Jeremy befriend the recently heart-broken Elizabeth. She comes in after hours and comforts herself with blueberry pie while he delivers unbelievably trite philosophies on love and life. My Blubbery Nights, more like! That might seem like a [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (23 Feb 2008)

Be Kind Rewind sees Jack Black turning in a Jack Black™ performance as Jerry, a junkyard owner who one day decides to sabotage the neighbouring electricity substation for fear it’s melting his brain. But as is typical of Jack Black – I mean “Jerry” – misplaced enthusiasm [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (14 Feb 2008)

The Bucket List is about two old fellas who are both given a year to live and so draw up a list of things to do before they “kick the bucket”. It’s nowhere near an original idea, but it is one that everyone can relate to [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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If you input the words ‘Jason Statham’ and ‘London crime thriller’ into your brainbox you’ll undoubtedly conjure a well-worn landscape of scalliwags and chancers who hang around railway arches and snooker halls saying things like, “Do me a lemon, tell Tony Binbags ta get a thrupenny-crockett for me ol’ porky bread boat!” But even though [...]

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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Originally published by Thinking Faith (7 Feb 2008)

Fingernails. Near the start of the movie the eponymous Juno visits an abortion clinic. Outside she meets Su-Chin, an anti-abortion protester and school friend, who tells her two things: “All babies want to get borned” and “It has fingernails”. Juno receives this second fact as a fascinating [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Truphtooph
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