BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

2005 DIRECTOR: Ang Lee May Contain Spoilers! This bitter romance garnered three Academy Awards back in 2006, and even though politics played a huge role, it would be unfair to right off the successes of this film. In the summer on 1963, two ranch hands are sent up the slopes of Brokeback Mountain to camp out…

GREASE

1978 DIRECTOR: Randal Kleiser May Contain Spoilers! Grease was originally released in the U.K. on the 14th September 1978, just four days before I was born (34 years ago today!). I have already selected Grease as my first Film Of The Year, for 1978. Also, a DVD edition was also released in 2006, entitled "Rockin' Rydell Edition"…

THE UNTOUCHABLES

1987 DIRECTOR: Brian De Palma May Contain Spoilers! "Where is Nitti anyway?" "He's in the car" It was on this day, 25 years ago, that Brian De Palma's reimagining of the television series, The Untouchables was release here in the U.K. As Ennio Morricone's classical and powerful opening score played over the titles, a very telling credit appeared on the screen, almost telling…

EAGLE EYE

2008 DIRECTOR: D.J. Caruso NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE Well first off, it was great to see the next generation of the HAL 9000 computer... Oh, wrong film? Eagle Eye takes a look at the well-worn subject of invasion of civil liberties…

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,…

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE

2010 DIRECTOR: David Slade May Contain Spoilers! The ever controversial Twilight Saga returned with its third installment, its third director, this time 30 Days Of Night's David Slade, and yet another interpretation. This time, Twilight had gone epic, building on the ever more irritating and over blown love triangle between Bella, Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob,…

DREDD 3D

2012 DIRECTOR: Pete Travis May Contain Spoilers! CINEMA REVIEW Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Judge Dredd began life in the 1970's British comic book, 2000AD and has always been portrayed as warrior of justice, you might say. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where Megacity 1 spans from New York to Boston…

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.…

TRUE GRIT (2010)

2010 DIRECTOR(S): Ethan Coen & Joel Coen May Contain Spoilers! The Oscars are rarely the measure of a great film, as for where I'm concerned, but there are exceptions. Maybe it's because I'm getting older and my tastes are changing or the top films of the year according to the Academy are becoming more accessible…

AVATARS, BACK TO BACKS AND BAD HOBBITS?

Today sees the launch of James Cameron's 1997 epic, Titanic, now post-converted to 3D. This conversion came of the back of the unbridled successes of Avatar 3D, which will released on Blu-ray 3D in October, but surrounding all this, Cameron has been talking more and more about his upcoming sequels to Avatar. 2009 saw the…