Reel Time Podcast

Cinema Review – Flight Directed By: Robert Zemeckis Written By: John Gatins Starring: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman Thankfully Robert Zemeckis has left behind his creepy looking animations like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol and has returned to live action filmmaking. Very much a character study into alcoholism, Flight is [...]

Cinema Review – Silver Linings Playbook Directed By: David O. Russel Written By: David O. Russel Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro Based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook is about to hit our cinema screens bringing with it all kind of Oscars buzz. Looking at Mat Solitano who [...]

Cinema Review – Wreck-it Ralph Directed By: Rich Moore Written By: Jennifer Lee, Phil Johnston Starring: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman and Alan Tudyk Ralph has played the bad guy for 30 years and he has had enough. In his quest to be a good guy and gain some respect he leaves his game and [...]

Cinema Review – Gangster Squad Directed By: Ruben Fleicher Written By: Will Beall Starring: Sean Penn, Ryan Goslingm Emma Stone, Josh Brolin It’s 1949 and notorious mob boss Mickey Cohen pretty much runs the city of Los Angeles through corruption and organised crime. With the whole town bought and sold it is up to a [...]

Cinema Review – Life of Pi Directed By: Ang Lee Written By: David Magee Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irran Kahn, Adil Hussain   Based on the award winning novel by Yann Martel come the story of Pi, a young man who survives the sinking of the ship transporting his family and the animals from his family’s [...]

Cinema Review - Les Misarables Directed By: Tom Hooper Written By: William Nicholson Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne It is one of the most successful musicals ever made and after a non-musical film starring Geoffrey Rush in 1998 comes a film to capture the excitement of the stage show. Following the story [...]

Cinema Review – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Directed By: Peter Jackson Written By: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage After almost ten years we are heading back to Middle Earth with the first of three films looking at the events preceeding Lord of the Rings. We follow [...]

Cinema Review – The Master Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson Written by: Paul Thomas Anderson Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams We’re definitely getting into Oscars season, and one that is getting a lot of attention in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. We follow a  returning Naval veteran getting entranced by a [...]

Cinema Review – Frankenweenie Directed by: Tim Burton Written by: Leonard Ripps Starring: Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Martin Short  Tim Burton is keeping the traditional form of stop motion animation alive with this creepy tale of a boy dealing with the death of his dog. Based on one of Burton’s first short films he made [...]