"Grind" sets out to authentically portray the skater lifestyle but unfortunately loses its way after the first half hour or so. What starts out as a promising buddy/road trip movie soon deteriorates into one of the most disjointed comedies (I'm using that term very loosely) of the year. "Grind" is funny when it doesn’t intend to be, and too often falls flat when it does go for the laugh.

I should probably note that Google has this page titled: “An Exercise in Futility”. This is because I had the blog titled that before I realized it would put that in the title bar of every page. The “Exercise in Futility” does not reflect at all what I thought of the movie! – Edited 12:01 am, June 1st, 2009

We’ve followed this film since November 2007, and I was looking forward to seeing it debut at the newly minted Paranoia film festival. There’s nowt like a ghost movie in the middle of nowhere. Necrosis is a supernatural update of the already spooky Donner party tale, in which six friends go to stay up in a mountain cabin and get trapped in a snowstorm. It turns out that the bad weather is least of their worries. The bad news is that despite the great story potential, location, and a fairly spooky Donner ghoul with Axe, this film is cursed by a lack of suspense, a weak script and poor execution.

The six TV episodes of Troy Kennedy Martin's classic political cover-up thriller from 1985 have been scrunched together into a moderate feature film zipping through the revelations at speed

Ex-Navy Seal Bobby Kalinowski lives a quiet, peaceful life as a landscape architect in an LA suburb with his wife Dawn and 16 year old daughter Brianna

Those bemoaning the somewhat overly-sanitary monopoly the folks at Walden currently hold on the world of child and tween oriented fantasy, take heart. Black Sheep director Jonathan King has arrived with his adaptation of popular New Zealand novel - adapted into a television series in 1982 - Under The Mountain and while his new effort is worlds away from his debut picture it definitely brings a fresh perspective to its chosen genre.

Executive produced by Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole” is hardly a plum guarantee of quality, but heaven knows, we’ve seen a lot worse in the