2009 DIRECTOR: Duncan Jones May Contain Spoilers! Moon: A film which was clearly modelled on the 1970's sci-fi classics of the day, complete with lonely man dealing with an extended stay on an industrial outpost who eventually, after three years, coming face to face with himself. I won't go any further into the plot for fear of spoilers,… Continue reading MOON
Tag: Drama
THE WOMEN
2008 DIRECTOR: Diane English NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? NO This remake of the 1939 original "Woman's Picture" as it were, The Women has the formula to draw in a vast audience of females, in love with idea of women speaking plainly about women's issue… Continue reading THE WOMEN
THE PERFECT STORM
2000 DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Peterson May Contain Spoilers! "The one with the vertical wave"; that's how we thought of this film back at the dawn of the century. The effects looked stunning in their day, as water had finally been mastered by the CGI wizards at I.L.M. Beyond that, nobody really seemed to care much about the plot.… Continue reading THE PERFECT STORM
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… Continue reading THE BOAT THAT ROCKED (aka PIRATE RADIO)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXTENDED EDITION)
2001/2002 DIRECTOR: Peter Jackson May Contain Spoilers! The Fellowship Of The Ring was the long, long-awaited first installment of the legendary Lord Of the Rings trilogy to be committed to celluloid. But, unless you were a fantasy geek, who cared? I can't say that I was too bothered at the time, and was often left… Continue reading THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (EXTENDED EDITION)
COWBOYS & ALIENS
2011 DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? NO With a great title such as Cowboys & Aliens, is a fair to expect a great film which can live up to it? Possibly, but this doesn't as far as I'm concerned. Jon… Continue reading COWBOYS & ALIENS
TOP 20 “TRUE STORIES” ON FILM
Here, I took a look at my personal take on the Top 20 so-called "True Stories" as seen on film. To keep the list as diverse as possible, the rules are that only ONE film from any given genre will be included, for example, only one film from World War 2, one from 9/11 or Tombstone… Continue reading TOP 20 “TRUE STORIES” ON FILM
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
2012 DIRECTOR: Rupert Sanders CINEMA REVIEW May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES 2012 is very much the year of Snow White, with this film, the recent Mirror Mirror and the new TV series, Once Upon A Time, which again centres around the characters from Snow White. I've haven't seen Mirror… Continue reading SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
THE FOUR FEATHERS (2002)
2002 DIRECTOR: Shekhar Kapur NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? NO I first saw this sweeping epic adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's 1902 novel of the same name back in 2004, and was expecting something modern and yet classical. What I saw and didn't like much… Continue reading THE FOUR FEATHERS (2002)
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
1994 DIRECTOR: Philip Noyce May Contain Spoilers! In the summer holidays in the 1994, Clear And Present Danger, the third adaptation of Tom Clancy's, Jack Ryan books, was the last of long list of summer films that I watched with friends that year. I hated it! I was 15 years old and watching Jack Ryan… Continue reading CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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