Many were surprised in 2008 when veteran indie director Jon Favreau managed to pull a huge hit out of the tent-pole Marvel property Iron Man. The big question now is whether lightning will strike twice with its sequel, released last week. Call me a cynic, but it feels as though these days if you release a film based on a comic book character and it does even “ok” at the box office, you’re... 

Looking around the various things the city has to offer this weekend, apart from the continuing Comedy Festival, there does seem to be an awful lot on pertaining to beer, sports and the wearing of kilts. Kilts? Don’t get me started about the humble kilt. I’d wear mine all the time if it were something I could get away with at work without constant ridicule – and with full “traditional”... 

We do seem to be stuck in the middle of something of a film festival season right now. With the Night Of Horror still going, the French just finished, the Japanese not so long ago, the whole swag of February-based short film fests long gone, and the Sydney International starting up in the not-too-distant future, you can appreciate that people might be done with film festivals for the moment. The more... 

I’m sure I’m not the first reviewer to tag the new Mathew Vaughn film Kick-Ass as being “Superbad meets Kill Bill : Volume 1“. It’s got all the winning formulae from both those films, for all the good right reasons, and mingles them together into the perfect combination of geek-comedy and ultra-violent-action to scratch that very particular kind of itch. And by that itch,... 

When it comes to a good night out, nothing tops it off like a knife in the chest, buckets of blood, possibly a chainsaw-related death or a chance encounter with one of the walking undead. If this sounds like your idea of a good time, then chances are you already know about the A Night Of Horror film festival which ramps into full gear tomorrow night at the Newtown Dendy. Spread across several other... 

It’s always a good thing once we get past the Great Easter Hump. Somehow the year kicks into full gear, no-one is complaining about “where summer has gone” anymore, and finally we can start pulling out our fashion layers in preparation for the winter and the Autumn wet-spells. It’s during these rain-dotted weeks (and weekends) that it’s good to build up a few good indoor...