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…

THE HUNGER GAMES (UNSEEN VERSION)

2012 DIRECTOR: Gary Ross May Contain Spoilers! The trailer didn't really appeal to me, but the reviews were good, both from professionals and the paying public alike so we gave it a go. Was it worth it? Absolutely! The Hunger Games is simply a grown up teen drama, playing around with ideas and inspiration from…

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY

1991 DIRECTOR: Nicholas Meyer May Contain Spoilers! There have been at least three versions of this film, with the Theatrical Cut which I believe is available on Blu-ray at the moment, the UNCUT version which was available on Video and DVD and a slightly different version of the UNCUT version which was release on the…

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…

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME

1986 DIRECTOR: Leonard Nimoy May Contain Spoilers! I can remember the anticipation of seeing this back in 1987. I was 8 years old and was already a Trekkie thanks to my Mum. In Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, the Star Trek universe had already opened up, with Starfleet and the Federation finally being…

DEAR JOHN

2010 DIRECTOR: Lasse Hallström NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? NO Channing Tatum has hardly gone out of his way to prove his acting chops over the past few years. Known for Step Up, G.I. JOE: The Rise Of Cobra, The Eagle and more recently…

STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK

1984 DIRECTOR: Leonard Nimoy May Contain Spoilers! SPOILER ALERT! Spock is dead! The needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few or the one as Kirk (William Shatner) and Khan (Ricardo Montalban) duked it out in the previous outing, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) movingly sacrificed himself to save the Enterprise. His…

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 HELP

2011 DIRECTOR: Tate Taylor May Contain Spoilers! Whilst I was watching this drama, set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960's unfold, I found myself thinking back to another film which I reviewed back in July, The Women. Not as a direct comparison and certainly not to malign this with The Women's quality, but the tone had…

DEJA VU

2006 DIRECTOR: Tony Scott Deja Vu is one of those interesting features which seems to have slipped through the net and it's a crying shame. It seems that more people remember Timecop than this little gem, but still, if you're lucky enough catch it, then this might just surprise you. Tony Scott and Denzel Washington collaborations…