RARE 3D TITLES OF THE MODERN ERA

- Of the modern 3D era, which is essentially 2007 to the present, several movies have made limited appearances in IMAX 3D. The first was an early example of IMAX's attempts to use 3D in mainstream cinema, with Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007) and Superman Returns (2006) both contain segments of 3D. But…

POSEIDON

2006 DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Peterson May Contains Spoilers! Wolfgang Peterson is a strange one. He made his name with the World War 2 drama Das Boot in 1981 and has gone on to make a wide selection of movies, as diverse as The Never-Ending Story to The Perfect Storm (2000). He also has a knack for creating…

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

2005 DIRECTOR: Ang Lee May Contain Spoilers! This bitter romance garnered three Academy Awards back in 2006, and even though politics played a huge role, it would be unfair to right off the successes of this film. In the summer on 1963, two ranch hands are sent up the slopes of Brokeback Mountain to camp out…

EAGLE EYE

2008 DIRECTOR: D.J. Caruso NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE Well first off, it was great to see the next generation of the HAL 9000 computer... Oh, wrong film? Eagle Eye takes a look at the well-worn subject of invasion of civil liberties…

STAR WARS: EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES

2002 DIRECTOR: George Lucas May Contain Spoilers! Three years on from the omen of foreboding which was The Phantom Menace, I doubt that I was on my own when I was hanging the fate of the entire Star Wars franchise on this film redeeming itself, and not replicating the first major mistake of the saga.…

CINEMA & 9/11

It's been 11 year today that the world was shaken and in many ways, changed forever by the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and United 93's heroic sacrifice in Pennsylvania. The movie industry has struggled to find the right tone and direction for this subject and since it was only 11…

KING ARTHUR (DIRECTOR’S CUT)

2004 DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua May Contain Spoilers! 2004 wasn't the best year for cinema as far as I was concerned. So when I sat down to watch this new, more realistic take on the King Arthur legend, I remember thinking that this could be the film that would redeem 2004. Over two hours later, that dream…

NOW PLAYING STRIKES AGAIN!

Earlier this month, I commented on Now Playing.com's Batman Retrospective, but now it's the turn of Star Trek. Back in 2009, the team at Now Playing recorded a retrospective series on the Star Trek movies, from the 1979's The Motion Picture, right up to J.J. Abrams 2009 reboot. Well, I've listened to 11 podcasts, covering…

CHANGELING

2008 DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood May Contain Spoilers! Clint Eastwood is a director which I some trouble getting behind. I have not seen his entire body of work but I have seen a fair few, and none have really impressed me as much as would have liked. Like his interest in composing and performing gentle country…

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

2009 DIRECTOR(S): Ron Clements & John Musker May Contain Spoilers! Line-drawn animation is dead. Or is it? 2009 saw Disney's return to their roots as they drew by hand (though be it heavily assisted by computers), their first traditionally animated feature in over a decade. Now since Toy Story was the first Disney film that I actually…