At its best Roger Avary's adaption of The Rules of Attraction, a novel I'm not familiar with, is sporadically entertaining in its depiction of excess and adolescent behaviour and at its worst a profoundly self-important piece of pseudo-intellectual twaddle. Sadly, the latter buries every bit of fun I could've possibly had with the endless scenes of sex, drugs and alcohol and left a bitter taste in my mouth once the film ended. I'm not sure if this was the case…

Eastwood as a director has gained most of his acclaim through his post-2000 efforts and although some of them are interesting, such as the terrifyingly bleak Letters from Iwo Jima, I find myself drawn more towards his earlier work. High Plains Drifter isn't one of his more popular works and yet it's one of his most fascinating, especially considering that it's only his second feature film. It starts off, like many westerns, with a wide shot of desert landscape and…

A week ago I wrote a particularly hateful piece on Christopher Nolan's latest abomination, The Dark Knight Rises. Since then I've been thinking hard, perhaps too hard, about why it is that I can't for the life of it enjoy the critically acclaimed “masterpiece” Inception. At the time it came out it was THE thing to talk about, nothing even came close to being as hot as the apparently intellectually stimulating blockbuster that is this movie. I had seen The…

Justin Lin's Tokyo Drift was up until now the only entry in the Fast and the Furious franchise I enjoyed and after the awful 4th film it seemed as if it was an accidental success and we were back to everything I loathed about the previous installments. Yet, despite the universal panning of the franchise in general it seems impossible to go anywhere without hearing that the 5th installment is actually rather good. Surprisingly, every positive thing to hear about…