http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/ Catch up on film reviews and news. In-depth reports on the story, effects and cast of all the latest film releases. en-gb Trinity Mirror 2012 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:47:37 GMT JournalLive no Catch up on film reviews and news. In-depth reports on the story, effects and cast of all the latest film releases. Film reviews, news on film releases - JournalLive http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/10/review-the-muppets-61634-30301294/ FOR more than 35 years, Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and pals have been engrained in our rose-tinted childhood memories.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:30:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/10/review-the-muppets-61634-30301294/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/10/review-the-woman-in-black-61634-30301295/ I ADMIT to feeling a little excited when I went to this viewing.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/10/review-the-woman-in-black-61634-30301295/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/10/review-big-miracle-61634-30301296/ IN 1988, countries came together to free three grey whales stranded in the pack ice near Barrow Point in Alaska.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/10/review-big-miracle-61634-30301296/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-chronicle-61634-30257224/ WITH great power comes great responsibility. Three high school students learn that harsh lesson in this low-budget sci-fi thriller, which imagines the catastrophic consequences for the pals when they are suddenly gifted incredible mental and physical skills.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-chronicle-61634-30257224/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-journey-2-the-mysterious-island-61634-30257225/ WHEN the going gets tough, the tough get soppy in this old- fashioned, gung-ho adventure based loosely on Jules Verne.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-journey-2-the-mysterious-island-61634-30257225/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-carnage-61634-30257226/ DIRECTOR Roman Polanski strips away the veneer of civility that supposedly separates man from beasts and reduces two well-to-do couples to snarling adversaries in this film version of the award-winning stage comedy God of Carnage.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-carnage-61634-30257226/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-man-on-a-ledge-61634-30257227/ THIS vertiginous game of cat and mouse is riddled with discrepancies and continuity errors.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-man-on-a-ledge-61634-30257227/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-young-adult-61634-30257228/ GENTLEMEN don’t prefer blondes in this scabrous black comedy about a faded beauty queen who clings to the past to avoid acknowledging the loneliness and despair that hang over her like cheap perfume.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/02/03/review-young-adult-61634-30257228/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-the-descendants-61634-30210404/ GOOD things come to those who wait and it’s been an agonising seven years since writer-director Alexander Payne ventured to the sun-dappled vineyards of the quirky Oscar-winning comedy Sideways.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-the-descendants-61634-30210404/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-intruders-61634-30210405/ FEW irrational thoughts are more potent than nightmarish images of monsters lurking in the dark.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-intruders-61634-30210405/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-like-crazy-61634-30210406/ FALLING in love is just as easy as falling out again in this low-budget romance.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-like-crazy-61634-30210406/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-a-monster-in-paris-61634-30210407/ A GIANT flea nurtures a passion for music in this computer-animated fable that teaches us to never judge a wingless, blood-sucking parasite by its spiny legs or hairy abdomen.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/27/review-a-monster-in-paris-61634-30210407/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/25/andy-mcvicar-film-compulsion-wins-london-short-film-festival-prize-61634-30193034/ AN important film award has whisked its way from London to a studio hidden within the Byker Wall in Newcastle.

]]> JournalLive Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/25/andy-mcvicar-film-compulsion-wins-london-short-film-festival-prize-61634-30193034/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/24/harrigan-hits-the-screen-at-last-61634-30184853/ BEHIND a new feature film being shot in the North East lies a successful father-and-daughter team, as David Whetstone reports.

]]> JournalLive Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/24/harrigan-hits-the-screen-at-last-61634-30184853/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/20/review-j-edgar-61634-30160376/ DURING a turbulent and contentious term in power spanning almost 50 years, J Edgar Hoover was instrumental in the fight against criminality on the streets of America.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:29:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/20/review-j-edgar-61634-30160376/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/20/review-haywire-61634-30160375/ FASTEN your seatbelts, you’re in for quite a ride. Whether, by the end, you wish you’d passed up altogether on the journey is another matter.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/20/review-haywire-61634-30160375/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/20/review-w-e-61634-30160377/ WHILE Madonna remains a formidable force of nature in the music industry, her repeated attempts to expand her creative empire on to the stage and screen have proved less fruitful.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/20/review-w-e-61634-30160377/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/19/review-coriolanus-61634-30153377/ AFTER Ralph Fiennes starred in Coriolanus on the London stage over a decade ago, he was left with a nagging feeling of unfinished business.

]]> JournalLive Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:30:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/19/review-coriolanus-61634-30153377/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/16/spotlight-is-on-north-east-film-makers-61634-30129071/ THE North East is well represented in the current film awards season, as David Whetstone has been finding out.

]]> JournalLive Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/16/spotlight-is-on-north-east-film-makers-61634-30129071/ Film Reviews true http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/13/review-shame-61634-30113012/ ADDICTION is a dirty word yet we are all susceptible to compulsive behaviour. Hankerings for caffeine, sugar or tobacco stem from the same dark places as drug and alcohol dependency.

]]> JournalLive Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/film-reviews/2012/01/13/review-shame-61634-30113012/ Film Reviews true