Movie reviews and previews of the latest film releases from Asian Image

Film review: The Princess And The Frog (U)

5:29pm Friday 5th February 2010

In an extraordinary career, producer Walt Disney redefined the boundaries of hand-drawn animation.

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Film review: Astro Boy (PG)

5:39pm Friday 5th February 2010

The iconic figure of Astro Boy takes flight in a new computer-animated adventure directed by David Bowers, with a storyline that puts a futuristic spin on the classic tale of Pinocchio.

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ON February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century of incarceration in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he discovered a country divided by apartheid.

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Film review: Edge Of Darkness (15)

4:42pm Friday 29th January 2010

AWARD-WINNING, meaty British television dramas are providing plentiful food for thought across the pond in Hollywood.

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Film review: Adoration (15)

4:48pm Friday 29th January 2010

Toronto high school student Simon is still haunted by the death of his parents in a car accident many years ago and the young man struggles to understand why the universe chose to take them from him.

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Film review: Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire (15)

4:45pm Friday 29th January 2010

AN average of 60 children are sexually abused in Britain every single day.

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Film review: Ninja Assassin (18)

6:05pm Friday 22nd January 2010

The title of James McTeigue’s martial arts action adventure succinctly sums up the vicarious thrills of this chopsocky nonsense.

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Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A)

6:08pm Friday 22nd January 2010

A widower struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks’s moving drama, based on the emotionally devastating memoir of Simon Carr.

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Film review: Brothers (15)

3:55pm Thursday 21st January 2010

All’s fair in love and war. In Jim Sheridan’s English-language remake of Susanne Bier’s celebrated Danish drama, Brodre, love is war as two siblings — polar opposites — are divided by their deep bond to the same woman.

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Rann

10:14am Monday 18th January 2010

Amitabh Bachchan stars in this clever look at how the mass media has evolved over the years.

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Film review: All About Steve (12A)

5:23pm Thursday 14th January 2010

Sandra Bullock was the undisputed queen of Hollywood in 2009. Alas, a snow-laden 2010 doesn't treat her so well.

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Film review: Up In The Air (15)

4:03pm Thursday 14th January 2010

Comedy Drama. George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, Jason Bateman, JK Simmons. Director: Jason Reitman.

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Veer

2:34pm Thursday 14th January 2010

The New Year kicks off with one of Bollywood’s most ambitious projects to date.

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Pyaar Impossible

2:32pm Thursday 14th January 2010

Beauty meets brains in this long-awaited romantic comedy about how opposites can sometimes attract.

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Film review: Sherlock Holmes (12A)

5:12pm Friday 8th January 2010

Guy Ritchie’s reinvention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth should have been a dream new beginning for the director.

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Film review: Post Grad (12A)

4:52pm Friday 8th January 2010

Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) was the girl destined for great things.

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Film review: Spread (18)

4:50pm Friday 8th January 2010

Some people are willing to work hard and make sacrifices to secure the finer things in life. Others want it handed to them on a silver platter.

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Film review: Did You Hear About The Morgans? (PG)

4:45pm Friday 8th January 2010

What a difference a decade makes. The last time Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker worked together, they played medics in the misfiring 1996 thriller, Extreme Measures.

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Film review: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15)

3:10pm Friday 8th January 2010

Distinguished by an incendiary lead performance from Andy Serkis, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a freewheeling biopic of 1970s punk pioneer Ian Dury that is every bit as unconventional and fantastical as the man himself.

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Film review: It's Complicated (15)

3:07pm Friday 8th January 2010

Failure is an education. That’s particularly true of romantic dalliances: to truly appreciate perfection, first you must recognise the qualities that will drive you to distraction.