Film Screening 3rd July, 2010

Poster for Green Zone

Green Zone 

8:00 PM, 3rd July, 2010

  • TBA
  • TBA mins
  • 2010
  • Paul Greengrass
  • Brian Helgeland
  • Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear

Damon plays Roy Miller, an American Army Officer who goes rogue after discovering faulty intelligence. This dramatic thriller is set in the chaotic early days of the U.S. led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, during which Miller and his team of army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction.

Each site visited means the possibility of booby-traps as they search for deadly chemical weapons. No one can be trusted and every decision has the potential to lead to unforeseen consequences. Miller soon discovers that even army operatives are likely to have different agendas and he is forced to hunt through faulty and covert intelligence hidden on foreign soil for the elusive truth that holds the power to further escalate the war in an already unstable region.

Green Zone reunites Damon with Greengrass, who also directed The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and United 93 – all edge-of-your-seat thrillers with political undertones. The film is based on the 2006 non-fiction book “Imperial Life In The Emerald City” by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran. A technically-proficient and thoroughly engaging film you simply can’t miss!

Matthew Auckett

Poster for Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass 

10:15 PM, 3rd July, 2010

  • TBA
  • TBA mins
  • 2010
  • Matthew Vaughn
  • Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
  • Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson

With today’s proliferation of comic-book film adaptations, it was only a matter of time before Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr’s ultra-violent-stylish superhero series hit the silver screen. From Matthew Vaughn, the director and producer of Britain’s best crime flicks (Layer Cake, Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels), comes Kick-Ass, a not-so-cautionary tale of why teenagers shouldn’t act on their perceptions of invulnerability.

Dave Lizewski (Johnson) is an ordinary teenager with an interest in superheroes and comic books. To address his curiosity as to why real superheroes don’t exist, he dons a suit and mask to rid the world of injustice. Despite his costume, his additional exercise, and even training in scuttling across rooftops, Dave (painfully) discovers the practical difficulties of being a real-life superhero. Yet when his exploits are captured on a mobile phone camera and posted across the Internet, he is dubbed ‘Kick-Ass’ and sets up an Internet contact address to answer cries for help.

In his exploits, he soon discovers that he is not alone in his initiative, meeting other vigilantes such as the mysterious Big Daddy (Cage), his sword-wielding daughter Hit Girl (Moretz) and the ever-amusing Red Mist (Superbad’s McLovin: Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Together, they work to bring down drug baron Frank D’Amico (Strong) and restore order to modern day life in urban America. True to the original source material, Kick-Ass is a profanity-laden knockout, scattered with the sharp wit of its author and the graphic violence that has become its hallmark.

Jimmy Bai