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2011 DIRECTOR: Duncan Jones May Contain Spoilers! It felt like we were back in the 1970's with this high concept sci-fi thriller. Duncan Jones had previously given us Moon, which was a hard act to follow but certainly in keeping with style of this film. On one hand it was good, a decent attempt to…

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

2009 DIRECTOR(S): Ron Clements & John Musker May Contain Spoilers! Line-drawn animation is dead. Or is it? 2009 saw Disney's return to their roots as they drew by hand (though be it heavily assisted by computers), their first traditionally animated feature in over a decade. Now since Toy Story was the first Disney film that I actually…

A TONY SCOTT RETROSPECTIVE

Last Sunday, 19th August 2012, Director/Producer Tony Scott, younger brother to Sir Ridley Scott and the director of such classics as Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II, passed away after taking his own life. I've always liked his work, finding that even though his older brother has gained so much notoriety, and certainly…

THE X FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE (aka THE X FILES: THE MOVIE)

1998 DIRECTOR: Rob Bowman May Contain Spoilers! Season Five of the phenomena which was The X Files concluded with and episode entitled "The End". Season Six would open with "The Beginning" but somewhere in the middle and for some reason, money presumably, it was considered to be a good idea to make a franchise movie during…

GOLDENEYE

1995 DIRECTOR: Martin Campbell May Contain Spoilers! Licence To Kill spelt the end of Timothy Dalton's short-lived stint as James Bond, and left the franchise is limbo. It was Martin Campbell who revived Bond in 1995, as he would do again in 2006 with Casino Royale, but Goldeneye was the first of one of the best…

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

2008 DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro May Contain Spoilers! There's no doubt that Guillermo del Toro is man of vision and man not to dissimilar from Tim Burton in many respects, though not in a literal one. He has a visual style which lacks compromise when allowed to flourish and here, in the second outing his red…

BATMAN RETURNS

1992 DIRECTOR: Tim Burton May Contain Spoilers! It's 1992. Tim Burton is now a major player in Hollywood, having re-imagined Batman as the Dark Knight and followed it up with the iconic Edward Scossorhands. But it wasn't just going to be a straight up sequel for Batman, this was going to be a furtherance of the…

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS

2008 DIRECTOR: Mark Herman NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION CONTAINS SPOILERS! READ WITH CAUTION AS MAJOR PLOT DEVEPMENTS WILL BE REVEALED! The title is intriguing. A clever nod as to what is to come. A child's eye view of one of history's most vile periods. 6,000,000 innocent people were murdered in one of the first real…

HELLBOY

2004 DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro May Contain Spoilers! 2004 was at the height of the superhero revolution. From 2000 with X-Men, there was a string of successful films, with Marvel leading the way, taking the genre to stratospheric levels. X-Men 2 raised they bar again, proving that the genre appealed to more than just a…

DEEP IMPACT

1998 DIRECTOR: Mimi Leder May Contain Spoilers! Up until 1998, the most notable asteroid movie to make an impact was the 1979 Sean Connery disaster flick, Meteor, which got off to a dubious start by being misnamed Meteor rather than Asteroid, as a meteor is just a  small piece of debris, rather than the E.L.E (Extinction Level…