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Shutter Island
Friday, March 12th, 2010The fourth collaboration between legendary director Martin Scorsese and superstar Leonardo DiCaprio (following Gangs Of New York, The Aviator and The Departed), Shutter Island is set on an island housing an institution for the criminally insane.
The scariest film for Scorsese since ‘Cape Fear’, Shutter Island is a skillfully plotted, genre mash-up.
US Federal Marshall Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio)
and his partner Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) come to island to investigate the disappearance of hospital inmate Rachel Solando (played by the fabulous - Emily Mortimer). They experience considerable resistance from doctors, particularly John Cawley (a calmly sinister Ben Kingsley – Ghandi, Sexy Beast etc.)
Gradually Daniels and Aule start to uncover the island’s secrets.
Teddy Daniels’s determination is undermined by his health – he gets sea-sickness, migraines and nightmares which start to get the better of him. His wife Dolores (played with a detached coolness by Michelle Williams) died in a tragic fire years ago and Teddy experiences painful visions of her, along with flashbacks to the brutality he inflicted on others as a US soldier in World War II. When Daniels admits to his partner that he has an ulterior motive for being on the island, to find the arsonist who lit the match that killed his wife, is a resident at the hospital (V freaky looking Jackie earle Hayley – Watchmen, playing Freddy Krueger nightmare on elm street remake), the twisted threads of the story begin to unravel.
Leonardo DiCaprio gives a great performance, as usual.
The film is very enjoyable and absolutely gripping, but you have to pay attention to the detail, to give yourself a satisfying outcome once all the mysteries start to unwind.
Alice In Wonderland
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Director Tim Burton’s putting his own spin on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. He’s transformed the beloved tale into an epic 3-D fantasy film, with a now-19-year-old Alice returning to the world she first visited as a child.
Alice is played by Mia Wasikowska and she stars opposite Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Michael Sheen as the White Rabbit.
Alice reunites with her old friends in the magical world of ‘Underland’ - having discovered it’s not actually called Wonderland at all. But it’s being terrorised by the evil Red Queen and her Jabberwocky dragon - and it becomes clear that Alice is the only one who can stop them.
The Crazies
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Directed suprisingly by Breck Eisner (responsible for the utterly rubbish Sahara) and starring Timothy Olyphant (A Perfect Getaway) as Sheriff David Dutton and Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black, Surrogates) as his pregnant wife Judy, this is a slick reinvention of the George Romero horror classic.
A husband and wife in a small midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers. rather than helping,the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom.
Unable to trust former neighbours, deserted by the authorities and terrified of contracting the illness themselves, David and Judy are forced to band together with other survivors in a nightmarish struggle for survival.
The 15 certificate keeps a limit on the gore but there are still some great scary, bloody action sequences.
A fight in a mortuary involving a small, electrical saw will have men in the audience wincing with sympathy pains, and a showdown in an automatic car wash uses soap suds on the windshield to effectively conceal an attack from one of the infected until the very last moment.
Good solid horror thriller - very enjoyable.
Nightmare on Elm Street
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The Lovely Bones
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alice Sebold and directed by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), The Lovely Bones is a teen romance, a gripping portrait of a serial killer, a family drama, an after-life fantasy and a crime thriller all in one.
It tells the story of a young girl robbed of her promising life by her serial killer neighbour George.
Susie Salmon who was just 14 years-old when she was murdered in December 1973 on her way home from school. Following her death she continues to watch over her earthbound family - while her murderer remains at large. Trapped in a wondrous, yet mysterious hereafter, Susie finds she must choose between her desire for vengeance and her yearning to see her loved ones heal and move on.
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) is fantastic as the murdered 14-year-old Susie Salmon, as are most of the cast especially Stanley Tucci as the very creepy George and Susan Sarandon playing the light relief as Susie’s lush grandmother.
If you’ve read the book you may be surprised at the 12A certificate and the softer way Peter Jackson deals with Susie’s actual murder. George Harvey’s quiet, creepy manner and scary antique toys do create a sense of unease but it doesn’t represent the horrifying brutality of the death scene in the book.
Also despite strong performances and moments from Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz, the movie doesn’t do full justice to the crumbling relationship of Susie’s parents.
We also don’t see enough of the relationship with her little sister Lyndsey (Rose McIver), which robs the film of potential impact later on.
The story occasionally feels glossed over, nevertheless, Susie Salmon’s sometimes harrowing, sometimes beautiful, always compelling world is a still a must see.
Solomon Kane
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Captain Solomon Kane starts off as an utter b*****d – tooled up with pistols, big swords and a lust for brutal murder and stolen treasure.
When he bumps the body count one notch too many, the Devil’s Reaper is dispatched from the bowels of Hell to claim his corrupt soul.
Kane, however, manages to escape and is forced into a life of spirituality and peace to keep himself alive.
Back in England, he takes on a devout and impoverished life until the demonical soldiers of a masked Overlord attack a Puritan family he has befriended.
When kidnap the puritans’ daughter Meredith, Kane is forced to use his murderous talents for a good cause - even if it means risking his soul.
Solomon Kane features solid casting. James Purefoy is perfect as Kane, bringing out the aspects of danger and menace while trying to seek a spiritual path. Pete Postlethwaite is also engaging as Puritan Father William Crowthorn and watch out for a brief appearance from Mackenzie Crook as a corrupted priest.
The landscape setting is also exciting, with rain-sodden corpses, fog-drenched forests and gothic ruins. The decision to use the Czech Republic to double for England works very well indeed.
Less impressive, is the random editing (some scenes just seem to grind to a halt without explanation) and the dialogue which feels a little too comic book and dodgy in places.
Solomon Kane is a little silly in places, but enormous fun nonetheless particularly in the first half. If a nastier version of lord of the rings, with extra witches and severed heads thrown in sounds up your street – you will love it.
Gaga For Gaga
Monday, February 15th, 2010Check out the winners from our Gaga competition!
Win Tickets
Last week we gave you the chance to win tickets to the long sold out Lady Gaga gig at Cardiff CIA on Wednesday 3rd March! Check out the winning Gaga for Gaga entries below!
(More entries can be seen on our Facebook page)
Missed out?
Don’t worry - we’ve got the last tickets in town to give away before the gig on Wednesday night!!! Just listen to KISS Breakfast before then for your chance to win!
The Winners…
Monday 22 Feb
Tayce Szura from Newport was the first winner with this awesome montage of Gaga inspired outfits!
Tuesday 23 Feb
Lydia Severinsen from Whitfield won with her awesome remake of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video. Just brilliant! Check it out on Facebook here
Wednesday 24 Feb
Ceri Boland with her amazing pencil drawings of Lady Gaga!
Thursday 25 Feb
Michelle McGrath – she designed and made the outfit herself!
Friday 26 Feb
Luke Przybylski - For the sheer combined effort of the following… If you look at his facebook page, his life is inspired by Gaga! He has photoshopped and drawn and Gaga’s his pants off!
MASSIVE well done to all the Gaga entries, everyone put a huge amount of effort in and we were INCREDIBLY impressed by them all but someone had to win! A huge thanks to all of our listeners for being a complete and utter bunch of LEGENDS!
Valentine’s Day
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Directed by Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman), Valentine’s Day follows various star-crossed lovers as their paths intertwine on the most ‘romantic’ day of the year. The huge cast includes the likes Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Topher Grace.
In this interwoven fabric of plots, some threads hold up better than others. Anne Hathaway and Topher Grace make one of the more engaging couples (Liz and Jason), who after spending a wild night together, try to put their relationship on firmer ground. The situation is made more complicated by Liz’s secret double-life as a phone sex operator, and though this isn’t the most plausible twist, their chemistry compensates for that.
Jennifer Garner and Ashton Kutcher (as Julia and Reed) are likeable as old childhood buddies clearly destined for something more when it turns out that Julia’s hunky boyfriend (Patrick Dempsey of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy) is married with a child. As the flower salesman who must deliver bouquets to both women, Reed agonisies over whether to spill the beans. Meanwhile his new fiancée (a sulky Jessica Alba) is having cold feet about their own relationship.
Sadly, Jessica Biel does not really work as a neurotic, over-worked publicist.
She bleats manically to suave sports journo Kelvin (Jamie Foxx) about the premise that she is so alone and no one wants to date her on valentine’s day (yeah right – cos she’s sooooooo munting!)
Inevitably, all of these stories merge neatly in the end, but it’s does feel spread a little too thinly.
Nevertheless, if you love a little bit of fun and fluff (and from time to time who doesn’t) this is an enjoyable gulity pleasure.
The Wolfman
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Lawrence Talbot (del Toro) after years of being away, returns to his family estate in the gothic Victorian countryside. His dear brother has been the victim of the attack (by a beast/lunatic unseen) and Lawrence has come back to find out what happened to him.
Lawrence mocches about glowering at his aloof dad Sir John
(Anthony Hopkins) and smouldering at his brother’s grieving fiancée, Gwen (Emily Blunt).
After a few flashbacks, we see that Gwen bares an uncanny resemblance to Lawrence’s mother who was killed when he was just a boy. Meanwhile, Lawrence is bitten by beast and the local rabble start lighting the torches knowing he’ll transform.
After waking up one morning dripping with blood, Lawrence realises they may have a point, but it’s clear he’s not the only one with blood on his hands.
The Wolfman has some issues. First off the accents in the film veer all over the place: we’re not sure if the villagers are yorkshire or westcountry born and it’s never quite explained why Lawrence’s father has a Welsh accent whilst his son appears to hail from South America.
But I guess when you have Benicio de Toro as your lead, it’s such a gift to have an actor who already looks like a man morphing into a wolf that you gloss over that one.
Secondly, whilst there’s plenty of gore thrown around, the film for me didn’t register high in the scare stakes and felt more like a bloody 12 than a 15 certificate.
However, it is good, silly schlock horror fun - you just need to suspend disbelief and pop your tongue firmly in your cheek whilst watching.
Daisy Dares You
Friday, February 5th, 2010She’s 16, she’s smart, she’s cute, she’s friends with Chipmunk.
We caught up with Daisy Coburn AKA Daisy Dares you to find out more. Listen back at the Kiss Kube.