HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX

1993 DIRECTOR: Jim Abrahams May contain spoilers! Last time it was Top Gun (1986), this it is Rambo (1982), with every other action movie up to that point thrown in for good measure, oh and of course we must not forget Casablanca (1943)! Star Wars (1977) is in there, Sea Hunt, the only surprise being…

HOT SHOTS!

1991 DIRECTOR: Jim Abrahams May contain spoilers! It is always difficult to know where to start with a good, let alone a great comedy such as this. Jim Abrahams made name along with David and Jerry Zucker Airplane! (1980), went on to do the short lived TV show Police Squad (1982), then revived Police Squad and gave it…

DRAGNET (1987)

1987 DIRECTOR: Tom Mankiewicz May contain spoilers! "Just the facts, maam" I was kid when I was first introduced to this 1980's comedy interpretation of the 50's/60's cop drama Dragnet. And I loved it. But it is a little hard for me judge this in the context because of this. Yes, it is ludicrous, the…

LAST VAGAS

2013 DIRECTOR: Jon Turteltaub May Contain Spoilers! Contains mild language This really pissed me off! On one hand this is nothing more than a cringe-worthy vehicle for ageing movie stars to garner cheap laughs at the expense of of their age and the ludicrous notion that this group of four childhood friends would have remained…

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…

THE HEAT

2013 DIRECTOR: Paul Feig NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Following on from his brilliantly well judged hit that was Bridesmaids (2011), Paul Feig continues his one man feminist movement within the Hollywood mainstream with The Heat. Taking the masculine archetypes of the…

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

2013 DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES I've waited too long to watch this and I should have known better. The Oscar nominated "True Story" of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), a stock broker who's first day was apparently Black Monday…

GREASE

1978 DIRECTOR: Randal Kleiser May Contain Spoilers! Grease was originally released in the U.K. on the 14th September 1978, just four days before I was born (34 years ago today!). I have already selected Grease as my first Film Of The Year, for 1978. Also, a DVD edition was also released in 2006, entitled "Rockin' Rydell Edition"…

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME

1986 DIRECTOR: Leonard Nimoy May Contain Spoilers! I can remember the anticipation of seeing this back in 1987. I was 8 years old and was already a Trekkie thanks to my Mum. In Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, the Star Trek universe had already opened up, with Starfleet and the Federation finally being…

THE BOUNTY HUNTER

2010 DIRECTOR: Andy Tennant May Contain Spoilers! Welcome to the 1980's. Only this Action Rom-Com was made a full ten years in to the new millennium! Throw-back isn't the word as the 'sexy' duo of Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston play off each other as an ex-married couple, one, a bail jumper (Aniston) and the other,…