The Collaborators Billy Wilder (WriterDirector) amp I.A.L. Diamond (Writer) Billy Wilder first arrived in Hollywood in 1934 after leaving Europe due to the rise of Nazism, and in a few years he became one of the most in-demand screenwriters. During the 1940s he began to establish his reputa...

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So we've well and truly arrived in December here at Cinema Banana, and around this time of year critics generally reveal their Top 10 list for the year. Whether they review films, television, music, or geometric shapes, you can expect to see some sort of year-ending list of the best (or worst) of wh...

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Film is an inherently collaborative medium. It takes a team of professionals (or passionate amateurs) working in a range of roles to put together the finished product you seen on cinema screens. And like life in general, when you find someone with whom you can combine your efforts and make something...

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MacGuffin a plot device that catches the viewers attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction. The MacGuffin must be of vital importance to the major players in the story, but its exact nature may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise ultimately unimportan...

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The Guard (2011) Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh. Brendan Gleeson one of those actors who is always good, even in smaller supporting roles gives a stellar performance in a film that is both darkly dramatic and bitingly funny. Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a no-no...

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Directed by Adam McKay. In The Other Guys, desk-jockey detective Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and his tough-talking partner Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) suddenly get their big chance to tackle a high-profile case and escape from working in the shadows of the super-confident and high-profile detec...

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Directed by George Nolfi. There have been many films made that are based on stories by Phillip K. Dick, and some have worked better and been more memorable than others. What this film does right to make it one of the memorable ones is take the great premise from the original story and add element...

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Directed by Matthew Vaughn. X-Men First Class comes along at a tenuous time for the X-Men film franchise. The first movie did well to set-up a film version of the X-universe, and X-Men 2 delivered on that promise by delivering a fun and action-packed film that also had emotional resonance. ...

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MacGuffin a plot device that catches the viewers attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction. The MacGuffin must be of vital importance to the major players in the story, but its exact nature may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise ultimately unimportan...

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MacGuffin a plot device that catches the viewers attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction. The MacGuffin must be of vital importance to the major players in the story, but its excact nature may be ambiguous, undefined, generic, left open to interpretation or otherwise ultimately unimporta...

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Directed by Greg Mottola. British stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return with a very American movie. Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost) are two British geeks visiting Comic-Con who then head-off in an RV on a road trip to visit the great American UFO hot-spots such as Area 51 and Roswell. Alo...

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Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Marvels vision of the Norse God of Thunder storms into cinemas in a stunning film. Thor begins on Earth (or Midgard as the Asgardians know it) in New Mexico as Jane Fosters (Natalie Portman) research into strange energy signals has led her and her colleagues ...

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Directed by Mel Brooks. When is a Mel Brooks comedy not a Mel Brooks comedy After winning an Academy Award for the screenplay for his first feature, The Producers, and before the banner year of 1974 in which he released Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks made a comedy wh...

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Directed by Brad Furman. The first thought I had after watching The Lincoln Lawyer was where has Matthew McConaughey been, but upon further reflection a more accurate question would be where has this version of Matthew McConaughey been. Just from the trailer for the film I could t...

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Directed by Danny Boyle. 127 Hours is the true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), a seasoned mountain climber, who is spending his weekend exploring the Blue John Canyon in Canyonlands National Park in Utah. When descending a narrow passage of the canyon Ralston dislodges a large rock, and in ...

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