STAR WARS: EPISODES I – III: A PHANTOM EDIT (FAN FILM)

2014 (1999, 2002 & 2005) DIRECTORS: GEORGE LUCAS (ORIGINAL FOOTAGE) & ANDREW KWAN (RE-EDIT) Contains spoilers! A fan edit making waves on Youtube, A Phantom Edit attempts to make the best of what are, whether you like the prequels or not, poorly written and conceived scripts. The execution is weak, acting and direction is clunky and too much…

A QUOTE FROM GEORGE LUCAS…

"People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or an exercise of power are barbarians." George Lucas speaking against the colourisation of films back in 1988. One year later, the Library of Congress requested an original negative of Star Wars (1977) for preservation but he would refuse to provide…

NIXON

1995 - Theatrical Cut 1995/2008 - Expanded Version DIRECTOR: Oliver Stone May contain spoilers! When I first watched this film on VHS back in early 1996, I was nothing short of disappointed. Already being a huge fan of Stones work with JFK (1991), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) and Platoon (1986), I was…

THE LOVE GURU

2008 DIRECTOR: Marco Schnabel May contain spoilers! I like Mike Meyers! There, I said it! But The Love Guru like so many of his films, is simply a vehicle for his brand of outlandish, playful and often boady humour and all semblance of class is simply thrown out of the window! So what this film lacks…

9|11 (TV DOCUMENTARY)

2002 DIRECTORS: James Hanlon, Gédéon Naudet & Jules Naudet 9|11 was first aired on the 1st Anniversary of the attacks in September 2001, but by now, the 14th Anniversary of the world-changing event, 9|11 has lost some of its poignancy but not much. After so many more detailed accounts, following the jumpers, the heroic emergency services and the…

FANT4STIC IN CINEMAS NOW

Today we greet with trepidation, the reboot of the first family of Marvel, The Fantastic Four. Tim Story brought them to the screen ten years ago and followed it up in 2007 with a slightly better outing which as the title suggested, introduced the Silver Surfer. But they were cheesy and disappointing, produced at the…

TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES

2003 DIRECTOR: Jonathan Mostow May Contain Spoilers! Terminator 3 was always going to be a poison chalice. No one beside James Cameron was ever going to produce a film which would be able to live up to the director's signature work, least of all the director of Breakdown (1998) and U-571 (2000). But I always felt that this film was much better that…

YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN

2008 DIRECTOR: Dennis Dugan May Contain Spoilers! Not being a fan of Adam Sandler or his movies, you can imagine that I was not expecting much from this, a film about an Israeli assassin, turned New York hairdresser with a ludicrous high kick! But I was wrong, as was my decision to wait until 2015…

R.I.P. James Horner – 1963 ~ 2015

Rest In Peace, James. He will be sorely missed but his work will live on for years to come and will certainly be a staple on my iPod, as well as the timeless memorial that his movie work will be, as it is accompanied so many movies which will be rerun for decades to come.

IMAX @ 45

MIssed it! The 45th anniversary of IMAX's debut at the Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, which took place on the 15th May 1970. That's right, the all be it unknown IMAX short, Tiger's Child (1970) premiered at the show, the year before the first permanent installation was opened to the public. IMAX has come along way…