IRON MAN

2008 DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau May Contain Spoilers! 2008 saw the first wave of the Marvel films in the build up to this years Avengers mash-up. This, along side The Incredible Hulk, would kick-start the four-year project and introduce some of the lesser known and less bankable characters, such as Iron Man, Thor, Hulk (Reboot) and controversially named,…

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…

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

2011 DIRECTOR: Tomas Alfredson May Contain Spoilers! I don't really know what the initial appeal of Tinker Tailor Solider Spy was, besides what was clearly going to be another one of Gary Oldman's great performances. But this was clearly a film which was outside my comfort zone. A dark, dingy look at the world of Cold War intelligence…

SWORDFISH

2001 DIRECTOR: Dominic Sena May Contain Spoilers! This is a film whose major accolades include the fact that Halle Berry got her boobs out for the first time. Does this sum up this film? To an extent, yes it does. But it's better than that. It's defiantly the first major film to use The Matrix style…

THE INCREDIBLE HULK

2008 DIRECTOR: Louis Leterrier May Contain Spoilers! Louis Leterrier should be stopped from making films! After this, he would go on to make the medeocre Clash Of The Titans and is probably more famous for his Transporter films, 1 and 2 anyway. But this was one of the first wave of Marvel films which were in the…

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…

TITANIC (aka NAZI TITANIC) 350th REVIEW!

1943 DIRECTORS: Herbert Selpin & Werner Klingler 350th REVIEW! NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Had anybody ever heard of this 1943 version of Titanic? Well, I certainly hadn't until it featured on a recent documentary but here it is, the lost, banned German propaganda film…

MONSTERS

2010 DIRECTOR: Gareth Edwards NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Made on a shoe-string, this $500,000 gorilla styled production has raised the bar of British indie cinema to a whole new level. A couple of weeks ago I sat down and watched G.I.…

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…

THIS IS CINERAMA & WINDJAMMER FINALLY ANNOUNCED!

After nearly three years of following the progress of these illusive Cinerama titles, independent distributor, Flicker Ally have set a release date for This Is Cinerama and Windjammer: The Voyage Of The Christian Radich for the 13th September 2012. Both will be presented in the criminally underused Smilebox format, which so far has only been used…