http://www.screenfanatic.com/ Screen Fanatic en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:36:00 GMT Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:36:00 GMT info@screenfanatic.com info@screenfanatic.com http://www.screenfanatic.com/shame-film-review/ Steve McQueen's much anticipated follow up to Hunger (2009) is an equally raw, disturbing cinema experience. As with this talented British artist's debut feature, Michael Fassbender plays the central protagonist... http://www.screenfanatic.com/shame-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/shame-film-review/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:36:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/chronicle-film-review/ Despite following the now less than novel ground rules established by 'found footage' predecessors like The Blair Witch Project (1999), Cloverfield (2008), the Paranormal Activity franchise and others, Josh Trank's... http://www.screenfanatic.com/chronicle-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/chronicle-film-review/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:09:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/man-on-a-ledge-film-review/ Asger Leth's Man on a Ledge showcases a screenplay riddled with holes and requiring stratospheric leaps of faith to believe it overlaps with any known reality for even a millisecond... http://www.screenfanatic.com/man-on-a-ledge-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/man-on-a-ledge-film-review/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:57:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/young-adult-film-review/ Proving Juno (2007) was no fluke hasn't been easy for screenwriter Diablo Cody. Her follow up to the Oscar winner, lame horror black comedy Jennifer's Body (2009) suffered horribly at... http://www.screenfanatic.com/young-adult-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/young-adult-film-review/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:49:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/journey-2-the-mysterious-island-film-review/ If a fifth Raiders film ever makes it past the conception stage, the search for Indy's new dad is over. Forget the notion of a Sean Connery comeback. Michael Caine... http://www.screenfanatic.com/journey-2-the-mysterious-island-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/journey-2-the-mysterious-island-film-review/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:41:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/2011-year-in-review/ 1. DRIVE. Nicolas Winding Refn's latest stands head-and-shoulders above the pack for me. Mesmerising intervals of silence juxtaposed with Ryan Gosling's perfectly understated performance, jagged bursts of violence and a... http://www.screenfanatic.com/2011-year-in-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/2011-year-in-review/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:08:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-2011-film-review/ Superfluous, extraneous, redundant: all are wantonly applicable to David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film that Americans deprived of the speed reading capacity to follow subtitles had... http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-2011-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-2011-film-review/ Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:56:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-descendants-film-review/ I'm sure I haven't been alone, for the past seven years, in pining for a new Alexander Payne film. The uniformity of his past three projects - all solid gold... http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-descendants-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-descendants-film-review/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:12:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/war-horse-film-review/ Nobody can doubt the purity of storytelling present in Steven Spielberg's War Horse. But this equine odyssey, adapted from Michael Morpurgo's child-friendly recounting of a horse's outlandish survival in war... http://www.screenfanatic.com/war-horse-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/war-horse-film-review/ Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:38:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-film-review/ Rightly lauded for his work as a director of animation, Brad Bird has made a seamless transition to live-action filmmaking with what is, finally, another redeemable Mission Impossible franchise entry... http://www.screenfanatic.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-film-review/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:36:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/being-elmo-film-review/ Kevin Clash is one of the most famous men in the world..................with his hand up a puppet. As the voice of the most famous muppet of them all, Elmo, Clash's... http://www.screenfanatic.com/being-elmo-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/being-elmo-film-review/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:38:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-adventures-of-tintin-film-review/ After a three year absence from the director's chair, Steven Spielberg returns via a new medium: motion-capture animation. With an assist from trusty lieutenant and co-producer Peter Jackson, The Adventures... http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-adventures-of-tintin-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/the-adventures-of-tintin-film-review/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:13:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/melancholia-movie-review/ I didn't hate Melancholia. There's only one other Lars von Trier film I can say the same about - Breaking the Waves (1996). For the provocative director's latest film, a... http://www.screenfanatic.com/melancholia-movie-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/melancholia-movie-review/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:27:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/attack-the-block-film-review/ A female in peril could imagine no more daunting adversary than conscienceless youths out for a night of mugging. But in Joe Cornish's super-charged genre mash, Attack the Block (2011... http://www.screenfanatic.com/attack-the-block-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/attack-the-block-film-review/ Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:06:00 GMT http://www.screenfanatic.com/restless-film-review/ Not even the wildly variable nature of director Gus Van Sant's recent output can prepare you for the abject awfulness of Restless. And yet from the morass of this tedious... http://www.screenfanatic.com/restless-film-review/#comments http://www.screenfanatic.com/restless-film-review/ Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:57:00 GMT