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…

FILM OF THE MONTH ~ AUGUST 2012

August was another tricky month for choosing the best of best, with both Duncan Jones’ Moon and Mark Herman’s The Boy In Striped Pajamas making an impact on me, both scoring 10/10. But in the end, I went with my first choice, Moon. Both surprised me with how good they were and how good I thought they were. But I feel that Moon crept under the…

A COMMENT ON “NOW PLAYING PODCAST: BATMAN RETROSPECTIVE”

Being an avid Podcast listener, I've now discovered, and it would seem to be late as usual, the Now Playing Podcasts. I have just begun to listen a series of podcasts recorded throughout the year leading up to The Dark Knight Rises release, of all the Batman Films. They follow the movies in a similar…

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…

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…

MOON

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,…

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…

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…