ENEMY OF THE STATE

1998 DIRECTOR: Tony Scott May Contain Spoilers! Will Smith's career was on the up, and he needed to prove himself as a dramatic talent as well as a comedy rapper, and I'm sure whether you can count Independence Day doing this. But Tony Scott's thriller which looks at the "Big Brother" technology which invades our privacy…

JUDGE DREDD

1995 DIRECTOR: Danny Cannon NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE The first signature which I wrote for my MSN email account years ago, was "Rob Schneider In "Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb". This was a quote from a South Park episode,…

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.…

STAR WARS: EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE

1999 DIRECTOR: George Lucas May Contain Spoilers! Dreams shattered. Never has a film or a film maker been subjected to such castigation as The Phantom Menace or George Lucas for adding to their own body of work like this. Alarm bells rang out once the title was announced. The Phantom Menace... What do that even…

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THEIVES

1991 (Theatrical Version) 1991/2002 (Extended Version) Extended Version Theatrical Version DIRECTOR: Kevin Reynolds May Contain Spoilers! Back in 1992, when I first saw this on Video, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves seemed to be one of the freshest takes on a medieval story that I had ever seen. I was 13 at the time and couldn't stand…

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…

TOP 5 BEST SOUNDTRACKS TO UNDERWHELMING FILMS

FILMS SAVED BY THEIR SCORES Some people believe that a film can be saved by its soundtrack, whilst others can take te music or leave it. whilst I would agree that a rubbish film cannot be salvaged by a great score, it can at least make it watchable, so below is a my list of the my…

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…

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (400th REVIEW!)

2011 DIRECTOR: Brad Bird 400th REVIEW! May Contain Spoilers! It's been 16 years since Brian De Palma teamed up with Tom Cruise to bring the cult 1960's TV series to the big screen. Back in 1996, Mission: Impossible was seen as overly complex and too much so for a  summer blockbuster, certainly when released alongside…