Red State review

 

With the Red State tour stopping off in London we caught Kevin Smith's latest, and it's by far the best "41% Fresh" movie you're going to see this year

Many reviews of Kevin Smith's self-distributed indie movie Red State have fixated upon the director's public tirades against film critics, both during and since the poor critical response to Cop Out. This one won't, firstly because it smacks of sour grapes, but mostly because the film stands apart from its director, love him or hate him, in such a way that its background and publicity pales into insignificance.
Red State, as billed by Smith, is a horror film. I hadn't expected a drama in which people do horrific things, but that makes it scarier to me, because it's rooted in the banality of evil. Smith's career began with a study of the mundane and tangible setting of a convenience store, in 1994's Clerks, so perhaps that should have been expected. But still, there's no denying that it comes together in such a way that you would never know it was one of his.
We begin with Jarod (Kyle Gallner), Travis (Michael Angarano) and Billy-Ray (Nicholas Braun), three mid-American teenagers who head out into the woods on the promise of a ménage à quatre with a hot older woman. They wind up in the middle of Cooper's Dell, where they meet Sara (Melissa Leo) in her trailer. She gives them beer to warm up, and they guzzle it down, little realising that it's been spiked.
The three of them wake up inside the Five Points Church, a Christian fundamentalist organisation, made up of a family of gun-nuts and led by Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks). Sara is his daughter, and the family are delivering what they believe is God's judgement upon homosexuals. Funnily enough, it's only at this point that the boys seem to twig that there might be a little too much sausage in that sex sandwich.
The cast credits at the end of the film divide the players up into sub-categories- “Sex”, “Religion” and “Politics”, three

Contagion review

 

Despite good performances and a solid concept, Contagion suffers from a muddled message and bloated cast list that the film can't properly withstand...

Since watching Contagion, I've discovered that the film is currently in release in IMAX cinemas as well as regular screens. This seems curious to me, because I can't for the life of me imagine what IMAX brings to the film. But then again, perhaps they needed screens that big to properly do justice to the sprawling ensemble, who didn't seem so well-served when I saw the film at the local multiplex.
The Oscar calibre cast includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet, with supporting performances by Bryan Cranston, John Hawkes and Elliott Gould. Technically, they're all supporting performances, seeing as how director Steven Soderbergh chooses to cover many perspectives on a global pandemic, rather than focus on one or two.

A deadly disease springs up with Beth Emhoff (Paltrow) as she returns from a business trip in Hong Kong, to her husband, Mitch (Damon). After she dies, it becomes apparent that she has passed the disease onto other people, and that it's highly contagious. Dr. Ellis Cheever (Fishburne) heads up the CDC team tasked with figuring it out and creating a vaccine.
Cheever dispatches doctors Erin Mears (Winslet) and Leonora Orantes (Cotillard) to work on the disease and figure out how to medicate it, although it appears to be figuring out mankind faster. Elsewhere, Mitch's natural immunity to the fatal virus apparently doesn't help the research

Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams memory-loss film, The Vow, gets its trailer

The co-writer of Valentine’s Day and He’s Just Not That Into You brings us amnesia chick flick, The Vow starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams

We need to establish something. We, here at Movie Reviews, are movie fans. Big fans. We love movies, big, little, new, old. Movies? We’re very much pro them.

It felt necessary to make that clear before

First trailer here for Amanda Seyfried thriller, Gone

Amanda Seyfried stars in thriller, Gone. It’s about her sister, who’s gone.

One thing about the thriller genre, it’s hard to pull off a great trailer which doesn’t come across a bit generic TV movie. For every stylish, decent thriller trailer, there must be ten overwrought, unconvincing and unoriginal efforts, like this one for the Amanda Seyfried-starring, Gone.

That’s not to say the film won’t be worth a look. Seyfried plays a girl whose sister goes missing two years after Seyfried’s character was abducted, and she suspects the same culprit is responsible

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