A sad day…

I have personally been one of the tens of thousands of film fans waiting for this day for four years, after The Dark Knight ended, back in 2008. But the honorific events in Denver, Colorado, in which a gunman has murdered at least 14 12 people and left 50 38 59 injured during the midnight screening of…

BATMAN & THE MOVIES

The 20th July has finally arrived. To celebrate the concluding part of Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy finally making its way into cinemas across the globe today, I'm taking a look at Batman's long love affair with cinema. BATMAN (1966) (Leslie H. Martinson) 6/10 Though not technically cinema's first encounter with The Caped Crusader, as the earlier…

BRICK

2005 DIRECTOR: Ryan Johnson May Contain Spoilers! I can remember back in 2005, reading about this new, breakout film which was redefining the high school genre. The film was Brick. It passed me by in the end and I came across it again this year. The quotes were great, saying that it was a "one…

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (EXTENDED EDITION)

2002/2003 DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson May Contain Spoilers! Completely underrated. This was, in my opinion, the best of the trilogy. We'd sat for an arse numbing 214 mins of intro, via the Fellowship, and now we get to it. It has often been criticised for being the middle part and therefore dragging, but for my money,…

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (EXTENDED EDITION)

2003/2004 DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson May Contain Spoilers! As the final chapter of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy begins, we finally see Gollum as he really was, Smeagol. By Christmas, 2003, the mania surrounding this franchise had reached fever pitch, as after two brilliant and epic outings, the long-awaited conclusion of Frodo's journey to Mordor…

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXTENDED EDITION)

2001/2002 DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson May Contain Spoilers! The Fellowship Of The Ring was the long, long-awaited first installment of the legendary Lord Of the Rings trilogy to be committed to celluloid. But, unless you were a fantasy geek, who cared? I can't say that I was too bothered at the time, and was often left…

DEMOLITION MAN

1993 DIRECTOR: Marco Brambilla NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE Surly everybody remembers Demolition Man? I would hardly classify it as a classic but for those who remember the golden era of Hollywood action film from the late 80's, early 90's, then this…

COWBOYS & ALIENS

2011 DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection?  NO With a great title such as Cowboys & Aliens, is a fair to expect a great film which can live up to it? Possibly, but this doesn't as far as I'm concerned. Jon…

GHOSTBUSTERS

1984 DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman May Contain Spoilers! Back in 1984, I was just six years old when the phenomenon that was Ghostbusters hit. It was far from supernatural though its record-breaking box office did hint at a deal or two having been made with the Devil or possible Gozer herself! But 28 years later, Ghostbusters still…

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES WITH 5 STARS

With just 4 days to go before the release of what may well be the film of the year, and possibly the crowning of Christopher Nolan's, Batman Trilogy as the best trilogy ever compiled, the reviews are in, as the cast and crew of The Dark Knight Rises head off to its premier tonight. Empire Magazine and Total Film…