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!…

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…

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…

JURASSIC PARK III (2001) – REVIEW

2001 DIRECTOR: Joe Johnson May Contain Spoilers! Back in 2010, I wrote a review of this film, a film which I had never really thought much of. It read... "I have never really rated this film. Jurassic Park is one of my top ten films of all time, and "The Lost World" made for a good sequel,…

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK

1997 DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg May Contain Spoilers! 1993 saw the release of Jurassic Park, a film which had a massive impact on my view of films as a 13-year-old. So, you can imagine my anticipation for the long-awaited sequel, four years after the original. Michael Crichton's follow-up novel to the original 1990 bestseller, The Lost World…

BAD BOYS II

2003 DIRECTOR: Michael Bay Contains Spoilers! "What ya gonna do... this time?" Whilst the first outing of the Bad Boys shocked me by how good it actually was, this one left me a little disappointed. I was hardly expecting an Oscar winning deal here, as this was always going to be a Michael Bay adrenalin…

THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

2008 DIRECTOR: Rob Cohen NOT A PART OF MY COLLECTION Will we be adding this to our collection? NO May Contain Spoilers! The third of The Mummy franchise, helmed so far by Steven Sommers, has now changed hands and the directorial duties have now fallen to action director, Rob Cohen. The difference was noticeable, as Cohen's,…

THOR

2011 DIRECTOR: Kenneth Branagh Contains Spoilers! Yet another trailer for this year's up and coming superhero mash-up, The Avengers arrived last summer. Sorry, I must have gotten confused. This was the long-awaited Thor movie, though it was hard to tell. This film's trailer suggested that Thor would be banished from his celestial home, Asgard and…

JURASSIC PARK ~ 2011 DIGITAL RE-RELEASE

1993 DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg TOP TEN FILM! May Contain Spoilers! This is a template for how make a great action/adventure movie. Clocking in, at for what these days, a film of its type would seem to be a modest 121 mins, it divides itself into two solid halves. The first hour debates the science, the…