GOLDENEYE

1995 DIRECTOR: Martin Campbell May Contain Spoilers! Licence To Kill spelt the end of Timothy Dalton's short-lived stint as James Bond, and left the franchise is limbo. It was Martin Campbell who revived Bond in 1995, as he would do again in 2006 with Casino Royale, but Goldeneye was the first of one of the best…

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY

2008 DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro May Contain Spoilers! There's no doubt that Guillermo del Toro is man of vision and man not to dissimilar from Tim Burton in many respects, though not in a literal one. He has a visual style which lacks compromise when allowed to flourish and here, in the second outing his red…

BATMAN RETURNS

1992 DIRECTOR: Tim Burton May Contain Spoilers! It's 1992. Tim Burton is now a major player in Hollywood, having re-imagined Batman as the Dark Knight and followed it up with the iconic Edward Scossorhands. But it wasn't just going to be a straight up sequel for Batman, this was going to be a furtherance of the…

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS

2008 DIRECTOR: Mark Herman NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION CONTAINS SPOILERS! READ WITH CAUTION AS MAJOR PLOT DEVEPMENTS WILL BE REVEALED! The title is intriguing. A clever nod as to what is to come. A child's eye view of one of history's most vile periods. 6,000,000 innocent people were murdered in one of the first real…

HELLBOY

2004 DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro May Contain Spoilers! 2004 was at the height of the superhero revolution. From 2000 with X-Men, there was a string of successful films, with Marvel leading the way, taking the genre to stratospheric levels. X-Men 2 raised they bar again, proving that the genre appealed to more than just a…

DEEP IMPACT

1998 DIRECTOR: Mimi Leder May Contain Spoilers! Up until 1998, the most notable asteroid movie to make an impact was the 1979 Sean Connery disaster flick, Meteor, which got off to a dubious start by being misnamed Meteor rather than Asteroid, as a meteor is just a  small piece of debris, rather than the E.L.E (Extinction Level…

TOY STORY

1995 DIRECTOR: John Lassiter May Contain Spoilers! Pixar had never done anything like this. Tron back in 1982 had experimented but effectively failed in trying to create a CGI feature. But after a few shorts, Toy Story was ready to revolutionise the Animation industry and change the cinematic experience forever, ushering in the art form…