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…

G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA

2009 DIRECTOR: Steven Sommers NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE I'm not sure that G.I. Joe was ever going to translate well into a summer blockbuster, but it didn't stop the effects mad Steven Sommers from trying. And it seems to have worked!…

THE HUNGER GAMES

2012 DIRECTOR: Gary Ross NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! CINEMA REVIEW Will we be adding this to our collection? YES 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!…

DIE HARD

1988 DIRECTOR: John McTiernan May Contain Spoilers! Based on the 1979 novel, Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp, Die Hard (undoubtedly the better title) has become one of the most iconic action films in cinema history. The script was originally conceived as a sequel to Commando, but instead was tailored for Bruce Willis, at the time known a…

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

1971 DIRECTOR: William Friedkin May Contain Spoilers! Almost 41 years later, this films gritty realism, fleshed out characters and slow burn, procedural police thriller plotting,  is still something to behold. Is this a masterpiece within its own genre? Undoubtedly, but it has also aged just as much. The fact that this is a 70's thriller is…

HANNA

2011 DIRECTOR: Joe Wright May Contain Spoilers! I wasn't really expecting much from this but boy, was I surprised. Joe Wright had seriously put me of his work with is previous film, Atonement which I felt was total rubbish, but he has redeemed himself here with a very interesting and textured thriller. The script is as smart as the…

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1

2011 DIRECTOR: Bill Condon May contain spoilers! No sparkling? No respect? These are two serious issues at the heart of this cynical, let down of a movie. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the world's greatest fan of The Twilight Saga, but the first two are more than decent, but by the time we get…

i,ROBOT

2004 DIRECTOR: Alex Proyas Isaac Asimov dreamed of robots. Will Smith and Alex Proyas came along and tuned this into a nightmare! What could have been an insightful Sci-fi thriller, revolving around robot homicide and the famous Three Laws with their inherent interpretations or misinterpretations, was turned into one of the most crass Will Smith vehicles that I have ever…

LAND OF THE LOST

2009 DIRECTOR: Brad Silberling NOT A PART OF MY COLLECTION Will we be adding this to our collection? YES May Contain Spoilers! Land Of The Lost was a little known Saturday morning kids TV series in this country, so as with film such as McGruber, a McGyver parody, and Get Smart,  it was always going to be  tough sell…

ED WOOD

1994 DIRECTOR: Tim Burton May Contain Spoilers! Is this Tim Burton at his best? That's a worthy question, as this is a truly worthy film and one which any director should be proud to have a s part of their filmography. Ed Wood was a made after the success' of Batman and Edward Scissorhands and reunited Burton…