STARSHIP TROOPERS

1997 DIRECTOR: Paul Verhoven May Contain Spoilers! January 1998: The mega-blockbuster that was Titanic had just arrived in cinemas, and I had seen it the night before. We wanted to see it again the next night but felt that was just a bit over the top, but it still didn't stop me seeing it a…

FORREST GUMP

1994 DIRECTOR: ROBERT ZEMECKIS NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection?  NO The 1994 Oscar-winning tale of a man with learning difficulties who manages to not only overcome adversity, walking difficulties and social prejudice, but also manages to change the direction of U.S. politics and culture forever,…

THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT

2012 DIRECTOR: Nicholas Stoller CINEMA REVIEW May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE Jason Siegel, who stars alongside Emily Blunt as the couple with The Five-Year Engagement seemed to have a lot to do with this. He has a screen-writing credit, as well as a Producer but this only serves to…

RETRO 3D COMING TO BLU-RAY 3D

Finally, after almost three years of Blu-ray 3D, the first wave of older 3D classics, such as Jaws 3-D, Creature From The Black Lagoon and the all but unseen in 3D, Dial M For Murder are due for release throughout the latter part of 2012. So far, the list includes: JAWS 3-D (TBA) DIAL M…

THE HARD WAY

1991 DIRECTOR: John Badham May Contain Spoilers! I first saw this film in what for me, was a golden year of cinema, 1991 . John Badham at his best, is one of my favourite 80's directors, with films such as War Games and Blue Thunder standing out as his best work. The Hard Way is…

MY SISTER’S KEEPER

2009 DIRECTOR: Nick Cassavetes NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection?  NO This weepy, directed by Nick Cassavetes, best known by myself as Dietrich Hassler from John Woo's, Face/Off, is a what it looks like. A sentimental tale of a dying teenager and the all the emotions there…

IRON MAN

2008 DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau May Contain Spoilers! 2008 saw the first wave of the Marvel films in the build up to this years Avengers mash-up. This, along side The Incredible Hulk, would kick-start the four-year project and introduce some of the lesser known and less bankable characters, such as Iron Man, Thor, Hulk (Reboot) and controversially named,…

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

2012 DIRECTOR: Rupert Sanders CINEMA REVIEW May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES 2012 is very much the year of Snow White, with this film, the recent Mirror Mirror and the new TV series, Once Upon A Time, which again centres around the characters from Snow White. I've haven't seen Mirror…

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

2011 DIRECTOR: Tomas Alfredson May Contain Spoilers! I don't really know what the initial appeal of Tinker Tailor Solider Spy was, besides what was clearly going to be another one of Gary Oldman's great performances. But this was clearly a film which was outside my comfort zone. A dark, dingy look at the world of Cold War intelligence…

SWORDFISH

2001 DIRECTOR: Dominic Sena May Contain Spoilers! This is a film whose major accolades include the fact that Halle Berry got her boobs out for the first time. Does this sum up this film? To an extent, yes it does. But it's better than that. It's defiantly the first major film to use The Matrix style…