8:00 PM, 20th May, 2006
This is a fun comedy which is great watching for a night of easy entertainment. This broad comedy with moments of satire is a remake of the 1977 film starring George Segal and Jane Fonda. This time the leads are T((eacute))a Leoni as Jane and Jim Carrey as her Tarzan, Dick. They do a great job with this story of the modern dream gone awry. Dick and Jane Harper are your regular middle class American movie couple. Dick is a savvy businessman for the Enron-like Globodyne Corporation and Jane is a travel agent. When Dick is promoted to Vice President everything seems to be going well, but when the company goes under, and Dick is left hopelessly unemployed, things turn bad. Then really bad. Then worse. With Dick unable to find any work and the strain building by trying to keep up with the Joneses while having everything they owned being repossessed, Dick and Jane decide to take extreme measures and get back at Dicks ex-CEO in the process.
This is a fast-paced comedy with scenes rocketing from one to the next in an effort to fit into the time allowed. Carrey does his frenetic job well and Leoni is great and even manages to steal a few scenes throughout. I must admit I had a lot of fun with Dick and Jane!'
Steven Cain
10:35 PM, 20th May, 2006
Hostel is a horror movie. Not a watch some old looking "teenagers" run away from an evil guy in a silly mask kind of horror movie, but a squirm in your seat because bad stuff is happening and you know its going to get worse any minute kind of horror movie. The set-up? A bunch of hedonistic backpackers find themselves in Eastern Europe and check themselves into a hostel that proves to be a little bit more hedonistic than they bargained for. Actually, it's a lot more hedonistic...
It's not the most original of set-ups, but it doesn't need to be. Hostel isn't about plot. Hostel is about pushing the boundaries of what you're comfortable with. It's not a nice movie, but it's not meant to be a nice movie. It's a dare movie. I dare anyone with a strong stomach to watch it. Once. Check yourself into a mental health facility if you want to watch it repeatedly.
Adam Gould