Month: December 2009

2009 3D - 6/10 2D - 6/10 Not bad. Knew what it was doing, what its genre was and how to maintain a sense of suspense. Though the horror genre is hardly Shakespeare, this film took itself seriously and was played for drama, as well as revelling in the horror. Not too gory, but violent … Continue reading MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D →

2002 4/10 NOT A PART OF MY COLLECTION Not a bad little film, but I was disappointed with the lack of an engrossing plot. The characters were okay, but not particularly engaging, and it if wasn't for the long running acorn gag, I think it would have had trouble holding my interest. The animation style of the backgrounds … Continue reading ICE AGE →

2005 9/10 Ever since the first time I saw this film back in 2005, I've been a fan. It broached an incredibly serious subject with the light touch of satire, whilst with striking imagery, great performances and some first class scripting left us with a sense of the moral ambiguity of arms dealing. Asking the question, rhetorically mind, of "is there as much blood on a dealers … Continue reading LORD OF WAR →

2009 7/10 In short this was a good, enjoyable film, though it was clearly a long and relatively simple journey to its climax rather than a well-rounded narrative, as I understand the novel to be. But it was well paced, funny and dark enough to hold my attention for its two and half hours, and I would happily … Continue reading HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE →

NEW & UPDATED REVIEW CLICK HERE 2008 10/10 A TOP TEN FILM! A masterpiece? Quite possibly. If it was possible, this film surpassed the original, "Batman Begins", a film which IMHO ticked every box for an excellent and near perfect movie, but on Friday night, the bar was positively raised. Comic book blockbuster meets "Heat", … Continue reading THE DARK KNIGHT →

1995 5/10 Not bad, pretty inoffensive and clearly the starting blocks for many a well known actor in the 14 years since this film was released. It just went through the motions, made me chuckle but didn't hold my interest as I would have hoped. But I do think that I would have liked this a lot more back in … Continue reading CLUELESS →

2009 5/10 NOT A PART OF MY COLLECTION Will we be adding this our collection? No Having not seen either of the first two Madagascar movies, watching what is effectively the third, wasn't quite as the writers had intended. I don't know the characters properly as I missed their establishment in the first movie, but … Continue reading MERRY MADAGASCAR →

1954 8/10 This is one of Hitchcock's finest, showcasing voyeurism and only knowing half of the story before jumping to conclusions, now matter how informed you think you are. Hitchcock's ability to demonstrate our darker nature in almost every one of him films was unsurpassed in my opinion, and this essay on voyeurism was no … Continue reading REAR WINDOW →

2009 8/10 This was a worthy sequel to an excellent and well written first outing. Only suffering, but in a minor way, from being a sequel, it needed to be bigger and more action packed than the first, but it achieved this admirably though at times, it seemed to be a little cluttered... The visual … Continue reading TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN →