THE BOUNTY HUNTER

2010 DIRECTOR: Andy Tennant May Contain Spoilers! Welcome to the 1980's. Only this Action Rom-Com was made a full ten years in to the new millennium! Throw-back isn't the word as the 'sexy' duo of Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston play off each other as an ex-married couple, one, a bail jumper (Aniston) and the other,…

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…

THOR

2011 DIRECTOR: Kenneth Branagh Contains Spoilers! Yet another trailer for this year's up and coming superhero mash-up, The Avengers arrived last summer. Sorry, I must have gotten confused. This was the long-awaited Thor movie, though it was hard to tell. This film's trailer suggested that Thor would be banished from his celestial home, Asgard and…

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

1968 DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick A classic that still inspires filmmakers today, as well as debate... This is a beautiful film, spectacular to look at, let alone here, but its pacing turns into a work of art, rather than a movie. It is divided into four distinct chapters: The Dawn of Man, Le voyage dans la…

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

2010 DIRECTOR: Steve Pink Gross ain't the word for this high concept time travel caper, starring John Cusack. Three middle-aged men and Cusack's nerdy nephew, are pining for the good old days when there lives still had hope and end up in the eponymous hot tub. Sent back to the 1986 in their younger bodies,…

WAITRESS

2007 DIRECTOR: Adrienne Shelly This indie chick flick has a lot more offer than may first appear. A simple story of a waitress, Keri Russell, who is intent on leaving her oppressive hick husband, even though she has just discovered that she is carrying his baby. Things are further complicated by her new doctor, Nathan Fillion,…

SE7EN (aka SEVEN) 300th REVIEW!

1995 DIRECTOR: David Fincher 300th REVIEW! Contains Spoilers! Late one night in 1996, a friend of mine rang me up after a trip to cinema with his girlfriend to tell me about a film that he had just seen called Seven. I had seen the trailers for it, with a rising star, Brad Pitt and…

SKYLINE

2010  DIRECTOR(S): Colin Strause & Greg Strause I beleive that "The Brothers Strause", originally involved with Battle: Los Angeles jumped ship and made this, Skyline, and went on to release it before hand in an attempt to undercut their competition. Well, this underhanded technique pretty much sums up the spirit of this utterly disappointing movie, the first hour of which is…

28 DAYS LATER

2002 DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle I was expecting a boring, boring film. The idea of watching a Cillian Murphy walking across a post apocalyptic Westminster Bridge just wasn't riveting enough for me. Well, after 10 years, I finally sat down and watched this and it was better than that, much better. Boyle's cinematography was as sharp as…

A BRIEF & PERSONAL HISTORY OF CINEMA…

OVERTURE Self indulgent though this story may appear, this is surely the purpose of blogging. I normally regale you all with my views on film, and have gone onto comment about issues within the genre which have caught my interest, but this is about as personal as I can get. This is the story of how…