GANGSTER STORY (1959) – REVIEW

1/10 Wow. Walter Matthau's first and ONLY directorial effort is not only forgettable, it is painful. Apparently shot on a shoestring budget, with a crew of just five and using locations primarily consisting of their own homes, this still doesn't need to be this bad. Matthau is fine. A true actor, doing his job in…

AVATAR 2, 3, 4 & 5 -WHY THE DELAY?

After watching Avatar in 3-D for the first time since theatres in 2009, I began to think about the long delay in the production of the sequels. I remembered how long it took to bring the original to the screen, a decade to be precise, with talk of "developing something new and innovative". It was…

LAST VAGAS

2013 DIRECTOR: Jon Turteltaub May Contain Spoilers! Contains mild language This really pissed me off! On one hand this is nothing more than a cringe-worthy vehicle for ageing movie stars to garner cheap laughs at the expense of of their age and the ludicrous notion that this group of four childhood friends would have remained…

THE BOAT THAT ROCKED (aka PIRATE RADIO)

2009 DIRECTOR: Richard Curtis NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection?  NO Too long. Too pretentious and simply not good enough. Richard Curtis, the BBC establishment's mind behind such work as Blackadder, Four Weddings And A Funeral and Notting Hill, brings us this bloated homage to…