Movies starring Noah Taylor

Shine (1996)

105 mins     Biography, Drama      

I refer to the years before 1998 as my mainstream years as it wasn't until 1998 that I started to expand my viewing to include foreign cinema as well as independent movies. As such there are a lot of movies which I chose not ...

Almost Famous (2000)

122 mins     Drama, Romance      

Here is the main fact you need to know about "Almost Famous", it is writer and director Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical account of his teenage years during the 70s as a young reporter writing for Rolling Stone magazine....

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

100 mins     Action , Adventure , Fantasy      

Watching "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" is like watching someone else play the video game, we get the enjoyment of seeing a sexy action hero jump around a lot but there is no involvement. Now I could say that is what is wrong with...

Vanilla Sky (2001)

136 mins     Family, Mystery, Romance      

Let me describe a few scenes in "Vanilla Sky". The first one is a fantastic sequence where after waking up David heads out on to the streets to find it completely abandoned, it is a dream sequence which leads to him waking up...

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

117 mins     Action , Adventure , Fantasy      

In my review of "Lara Croft Tomb Raider" I said "it is like watching someone else play the video game, we get the enjoyment of seeing a sexy action hero jump around a lot but there is no involvement". When it comes to the seq...

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005)

115 mins     Adventure , Comedy, Family, Fantasy      

When the name Tim Burton is attached to any movie the first expectation is for a visual extravaganza, the second is the slightly abstract viewpoint, the dark yet quirky world which many of Burton's movies resides in. His inte...

The New Daughter (2009)

108 mins     Horror, Thriller      

Before I get to the review of "The New Daughter" I have a really simple question. Why does a single dad with two children want to buy a house probably three times to big for them in a remote location away from everyone and ev...

Submarine (2010)

97 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

On first appearances "Submarine" sounds pretty much like any other nostalgic coming of age movie as it focuses on the romantic trials and tribulations of a 15 year old boy. But then you start adding the various elements with ...

Red White & Blue (2010)

104 mins     Drama, Horror, Thriller      

How slow can you go? Look I know not every movie needs to skip a long at a rate of knots but some times it can become as dreary as watching paint dry by watching a movie which attempts to be different. This is the major issue...

Red Dog (2011)

92 mins     Comedy, Drama, Family      

Over the decades there have been more movies than I care to imagine about dogs and their masters, movies which focus on that special bond they have and the undying loyalty that a dog has to his master to the point that even w...

The Double (2013)

93 mins     Comedy, Drama, Thriller      

The Double: Jesse Eisenberg plays the dual roles of Simon James and James Simon, physically identical but with vastly different personalities...

Mindscape (2013)

99 mins     Drama, Mystery, Thriller      

Yet again "Mindscape" is one of those movies where the less you know about it before you sit down to watch the better it will be. But of course that makes my job as a movie reviewer difficult because I don't plan to give away...

Predestination (2014)

97 mins     Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi      

I apologise for that ridiculously slim and frankly uninformative synopsis for "Predestination" but I do believe I have found the ultimate unreviewable movie. By that I don't mean it is such a bad movie that I can't review it ...

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

113 mins     Action , Sci-Fi      

Movie Review - Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Tom Cruise stars as Major William Cage, an inexperience officer thrown in to front line action only to discover he is stuck in a groundhog day like loop, returning to the same point in t...

The Windmill Massacre (2016)

85 mins     Drama, Horror      

The Windmill Massacre (2016) a group of tourists visiting a Windmill in Old Amsterdam find more than a mouse as they get picked off one by one by an evil legend...