THE WOMEN

2008 DIRECTOR: Diane English NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection?  NO This remake of the 1939 original "Woman's Picture" as it were, The Women has the formula to draw in a vast audience of females, in love with idea of women speaking plainly about women's issue…

GHOSTBUSTERS II

1989 DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman May Contain Spoilers! There are those who believe that Ghostbusters II is a better movie than Ghostbusters. I am not one of them. Saying that, Ghostbusters II is far from a poor sequel. It has the integrity to acknowledge its predecessor and attempt to take the story further. Five years have passed since the events…

THE PERFECT STORM

2000 DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Peterson May Contain Spoilers! "The one with the vertical wave"; that's how we thought of this film back at the dawn of the century. The effects looked stunning in their day, as water had finally been mastered by the CGI wizards at I.L.M. Beyond that, nobody really seemed to care much about the plot.…

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

2012 DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan CINEMA REVIEW Contains Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES After four years, since The Dark Knight ended, leaving us wanting more and seven years since Christopher Nolan reinvented the comic book adaptation with Batman Begins, The final chapter of The Dark Knight Trilogy has arrived. With this…

SCARFACE (1983)

1983 DIRECTOR: Brian De Palma May Contain Spoilers! Someone once told me, back when I was 19 years old, that I wasn't a real film buff if I hadn't seen Scarface. I took offence at that and as a result, when I eventually saw the film, I was 33! Was it worth the wait? Yes.…

BATMAN (1989)

1989 DIRECTOR: Tim Burton May Contain Spoilers! In 1989, hot off the heels of his previous hit, Beetlejuice, Director, Tim Burton set his sights on reimagining one of the DC Comics most sacred characters, apart of from Superman that is, The Dark  Knight. This incarnation owes a debt to Frank Miller's mid-80's, Batman: The Dark…

TRUE ROMANCE (DIRECTOR’S CUT)

1993 DIRECTOR: Tony Scott May Contain Spoilers! True Romance is one of the strangest examples of  a movie that you'll ever see. Directed by Tony Scott, written and originally to be directed by Quentin Tarantino, with music from the younger and upcoming composer Hans Zimmer and a cast of some Hollywood's biggest names, not in…

THE BOAT THAT ROCKED (aka PIRATE RADIO)

2009 DIRECTOR: Richard Curtis NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection?  NO Too long. Too pretentious and simply not good enough. Richard Curtis, the BBC establishment's mind behind such work as Blackadder, Four Weddings And A Funeral and Notting Hill, brings us this bloated homage to…

HUGO 3D

2011 DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese  May Contain Spoilers! When I'd finished with this film, my feelings were somewhat confused. I was still trying to make sense of what I had just seen. Not that this was particularly confusing, but it was just a little unclear as to where this film had been leading for the past two hours.…

CASINO ROYALE

2006 DIRECTOR: Martin Campbell May Contain Spoilers! With Die Another Day signing off on Pearce Brosnan's Bond on a low note, well as fans were concerned (though I as not being a particular fan, I found this to be good fun), Casino Royale had the responsibility of refreshing the franchise. Some may remember the controversy…