Politically incorrect film reviews – The Millennium Trilogy

Robert Henderson The girl with the dragon tattoo – the original and the US-remake The girl who played with fire The girl who stirred the hornets’ nest These are the films made to date from  Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.   I review them  in one fell swoop because there is only one reason to see them if you wish [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – Ire in Babylon

UK Cinema Release Date: Friday 20th May 2011 Official Site: www.fireinbabylon.com Written and Directed by: Stevan Riley Starring:  Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Michael Holding, Ian Botham, Jeffery Dujon, Colin Croft Genre: Documentary Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes (approx.) Between 1980 and 1995 the West Indies cricket team never lost a series, a most remarkable thing. [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – Gran Torino

 Run time  116 minutes  Main cast Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski Bee Vang as Thao Vang Lor, a young Hmong teenager Ahney Her as Sue Lor, Thao’s older sister Christopher Carley as Father Janovich Doua Moua as Fong “Spider”, Thao’s cousin, a Hmong street gang  Director Clint Eastwood  At one level Gran Torino is enjoyable as Dirty Harry at 80 for  [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – Four Lions

UKCert (UK): 15 Runtime: 101 mins Directors: Chris Morris Cast: Adeel Akhtar, Arsher Ali, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Preeya Kalidas, Riz Ahmed Bafta nominated (2011) for best British film At the heart of this film lies a terrible cowardice. Four Lions has been promoted as a brave satire on Islamic fundamentalism, but it is the liberal equivalent of a [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – Machete

Director: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez  104mins  Released 2010 Starring: Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson, Lindsay Lohan , Michelle Rodriguez, This is a shameful film for any American actor to have agree to appear in.  Reviewers have generally given it a panning simply on the grounds of its general cinematic [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – Made in Dagenham

Made in Dagenham General release 2010 Directed by Nigel Cole. Main cast:  Sally Hawkins,  Bob Hoskins, Kenneth Cranham, Miranda Richardson,  Rosamund Pike, Jamie Winston, Andrea Riseborough and Geraldine James. This is a piece of childishly crude feminist propaganda, a fact which has (sigh) inevitably  guaranteed it glowing reviews in the mainstream British media.    The film, [...]

Taking Liberties

Production year: 2007 Country: UK Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 105 mins Directors: Chris Atkins Chris Atkins’  film  is not without its merits. It  efficiently catalogues the frightening nature and scope of the many  authoritarian laws passed by the Blair Government and shows a varied selection of  the behaviour of those legally entitled to enforce them, behaviour [...]

Film reviews – Capitalism: a love story

You don’t go to see a Michael  Moore documentary for impartial reporting and “Capitalism:  A Love Story” is as ideologically one-eyed as his previous offerings, although he seems to have dropped for the moment at least  his habit  of outright lying.  There is the usual parade of cartoon villains – in this case  bankers,  mortgage [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – There is none so blind that can PeeCee.

The Blind Side 128 minutes Main cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Kathy |Bates, Jae Head, Lily Collins Director John Lee Hancock If you require a primer on the white liberal mentality in general and their perception of blacks in particular this is your film, “The Blind Side” ploughs the same rescuing-the-black-underclass furrow as [...]

Politically incorrect film reviews – Precious little to celebrate

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire Main characters Gabourey Sidibe as Claireece Precious Jones Mo’Nique as Mary Lee Johnston Paula Patton as Ms. Blu Rain Mariah Carey as Ms. Weiss Lenny Kravitz as Nurse John McFadden Director : Lee Daniels If  Joseph Goebbels was alive today and  wanted to make a propaganda film [...]