AVATAR 2, 3, 4 & 5 -WHY THE DELAY?

After watching Avatar in 3-D for the first time since theatres in 2009, I began to think about the long delay in the production of the sequels. I remembered how long it took to bring the original to the screen, a decade to be precise, with talk of "developing something new and innovative". It was…

YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN

2008 DIRECTOR: Dennis Dugan May Contain Spoilers! Not being a fan of Adam Sandler or his movies, you can imagine that I was not expecting much from this, a film about an Israeli assassin, turned New York hairdresser with a ludicrous high kick! But I was wrong, as was my decision to wait until 2015…

ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY

2004 DIRECTOR: Adam McKay May Contain Spoilers! Judd Apatow: A name which causes derision within any group who hear it. Love him or hate him, but his films are here to stay. I'm not really in the love him camp, but I have to admit, that his films are beginning to grow on me, though only…

TED

2012 DIRECTOR: Seth MacFarlane CINEMA REVIEW May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Back in 1999, off the back of The Simpsons and South Park, Family Guy hit our screens. I loved it, but it took its premature cancellation and subsequent re-commissioning after its successful DVD sales to make it the classic…

GHOSTBUSTERS II

1989 DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman May Contain Spoilers! There are those who believe that Ghostbusters II is a better movie than Ghostbusters. I am not one of them. Saying that, Ghostbusters II is far from a poor sequel. It has the integrity to acknowledge its predecessor and attempt to take the story further. Five years have passed since the events…

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…

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 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…

TRAINSPOTTING

1996 DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle May Contain Spoilers! The year was 1997, and one the most groundbreaking and controversial films of the 1990's was loaded into my VCR and ready to play. What I was about to watch for the next 89 minutes was one of the most graphic films about heroin addiction that, certainly up…

THE SMURFS

2011 DIRECTOR: Raja Gosnell May Contain Spoilers! Not knowing what the smurf to make of this smurf-elicious feast of blue, I came to the conclusion that this was actually so bad, that it was good. It was an enjoyable take of the Smurfs, perfectly rendered in 3D CGI and their blending into the real world was equally…