Miv Evans

By the end of this sorry tale, it becomes clear that the martial moral compass has become decidedly out of synch.

When the piranhas attack, hundreds of teenagers scream and flounder and stagger ashore, but all they really had to do to escape was to run like hell.

The writer, director and producer is one Dan Pritzker, a big jazz fan and billionaire heir to the Hyatt empire. So it was no surprise to discover that the budget for this little independent film is a staggering $25M

as we all know, money can make even the most beautiful people ugly, so we sit in our seats and wait for the good to stumble and expose, layer by layer, the flaws that poverty had hidden so well.

The Enemies of the People are the words the Khmer Rouge used to describe the two million Cambodians who they butchered in the name of patriotism. This film searches for an explanation for this genocide

moving and compelling and tells us what John saw when he was dreaming of the past and, when he waxed lyrical, why he always said so much with so little. The person behind the personality has finally been smoked out.

someone wrote an uninteresting drama, added some sci-fi/superpower scenes, tossed in some sequential art and simply let them collide. Rather like getting Pavarotti, Dolly Parton and Snoop Dogg to sing a line each of the same song and expect people

...a soldier tries on a wedding dress, never taking his eyes off his reflection as he gently pulls the sparkling white lace over his muscled torso, slips the starched veil onto his cropped head, and stands,

Times move on and, at 64, Sly, thankfully, knows that getting the girl won't work anymore, but instead of letting someone else have the honor, he fixes it so NO ONE gets her. How dog in the manger is that? Also, Schwarzenegger and Willis get disp

French government publicly dissed the Americans over the Iraq invasion/WMD issue, with the French saying they wanted 'more proof'. The last time they made that request it came marching into Paris waving a German flag.

The Kingdom is the Melbourne underworld and the Animals are the armed robbers who inhabit the terrain. It's set at a time when Melbourne criminals are becoming TV Reality stars and the Armed Robbery Police Force are shooting suspects on sight.

Like all teenagers, they're hard-wired to what they can't have and with the hunt for illegal drink stolen, they're forced to channel their bad behavior elsewhere, which is where Twelve comes in.

If this had happened in the UK, Ida would have been whisked off to the Tower and promptly beheaded (nowadays they have to arrange car accidents). If it was in present-day US, and Mussolini had been exposed by investigative journalism...

Hefner is compelled to save anyone who has suffered a social or judicial injustice and faces off political intimidation with the same stare that Clubber Lang used on Rocky. How cool is that?

If it's only the backdrop of a story, it gets a little tricky. Probably a little like trying to mix oil and water, or deciding to buy magnetic catches; you know, deep down, it's just not going to work.

Jolie doesn't get star billing because the film is 99 minutes, 70 of which are action sequences that no A list actor could ever get insurance for.

No new sci-fi world has been created and the story is simply dropped into the present day, without a ray gun or lightsaber in sight. And instead of using a tardis to get around, our hero uses a white van - how passe is that?

Within two weeks eighteen filmmakers were contacted by producers, managers and distributors; scripts and DVDs are en route to Hollywood.

Gru's sits on what looks like a stuffed tyrannosaurus rex couch (eat your heart out, Sarah Palin, you only shot a bear), keeps a vicious fanged creature as a pet and there are Adams Family-esque niceties everywhere. So far so good.

I'm not sure what the Chinese think of the fact that the average American is happy to bare his soul to any passing film crew, but I'm sure it's not complimentary.