Articles by Brendan Willis

Johnny Was

Mark Hammond

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2007

I’m not exactly sure how to categorise Johnny Was, other than to say that Johnny Was was enjoyable. Part action movie, part post-IRA prison...

The Darwin Awards

Finn Taylor

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2007

Every year the Darwin Awards are posthumously awarded to people who have managed to kill themselves while involved in stupid activities, th...

Slow Burn

Wayne Beach

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2007

Trying to keep up with the twists and misdirections of Wayne Beach’s Slow Burn is not so much difficult as tiring. As a convoluted modern d...

Skinwalkers

James Isaac

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2007

The formula for an enjoyable "werewolf” movie is not complex: cool man-to-wolf transformations, scary monster make-up, a bit of blood and g...

TMNT

Kevin Munroe

PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2007

The iconic team of reptilian super-ninjas from the ’80s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, have returned in an all new, digitally animated...

Everything's Gone Green

Paul Fox

PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2007

Bestselling Canadian author Douglas Coupland’s first screenplay, Everything’s Gone Green, is an enjoyable, low-key comedy. Coupland, best k...

Jekyll

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2007

The new BBC series Jekyll is a modern sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic schizoid tale The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde....

The Number 23

Joel Schumacher

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

Jim Carrey stars as Walter Sparrow, an average Joe living a seemingly average life, that is until his wife buys him a mysterious book for h...