Author Archives: Alex Sherwood

An incredible movie about the intense pressures of a New York ballet company. Natalie Portman’s best performance yet.

Armed with various technological items and brimming with excitement, a gruelling six-hour stay in haunted underground chambers was supposed to prove the paranormal. But did we find anything? No, but it was still enjoyable.

As one of this year’s summer blockbusters, Knight and Day doesn’t totally disappoint when it comes to exhilarating action sequences. But without anything vaguely interesting happening in-between, this is just a Cruise/Diaz star vehicle.

More than eight years after director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Memento) first began writing the script, Inception storms into UK cinemas as one of the most innovative and compelling films of modern times.

This, the latest award-winning feature from veteran Italian director Marco Bellocchio, is a beautifully realised piece of cinema which charts the largely unknown story of Benito Mussolini’s first wi

Filmed on a tiny budget of only £250,000, The Calling is a quaint and occasionally touching film which explores a young woman’s emotional struggle as she decides to join a small, closed convent of Benedictine nuns.

Battle of the giants

Despite their impressive back catalogue, the Coen brothers deliver a film lacking thrills that’s not even particularly funny.

Fuse attended a secret showing of the supernatural spine-tingler Paranormal Activity, which is set for UK release later this year.