Just watched The Haunted Airman. We needed a DVD that we could agree on, and this seemed to fit the bill. It’s an adaptation of a book called The Haunting of Toby Jugg by Dennis Wheatley, which I read when I was younger. It freaked the crap outta me then, and I’ve been waiting a [...]
Star Trekkin’
I’ve been fortunate enough to catch three movies on my “watchlist” in the past week: Wolverine, Flight 666 (Iron Maiden doco) and Star Trek. I’ve been a bit slack on blogging movies I’ve seen recently, having not bothered to record my thoughts on Role Models or Zack and Miri Make A Porno. I may well [...]
Valkyrie follow up and Inglorious Basterds
After wondering out loud about whatever happened to Bryan Singer’s version of Logan’s Run in my last post, I conveniently came across this story on Ain’t It Cool News.
Ride of the Valkyrie
A solid effort, but not one that I’ll be rushing to buy on DVD. Seven M&Ms out of ten.
The Bond Identity
When the Bourne Identity was released it changed the way action movies were thought about. Much of the visual hyperbole of the genre was replaced by gritty “realism” and steadycam shots. The marriage of the Bond mythology with this new style of storytelling was done well in Casino Royale, particularly as the film sought to [...]
Tales of the drunk ‘n’ monkey
This is it folks, the match up of the millennium. The bout you’ve all been waiting for. Two giants of martial arts on the silver screen finally come together in the same movie. In The Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie chan and Jet Li collide, and the results are a joy to behold. Fortunately, the movie’s not [...]
You woke up the baby
In any other year, there’s a good chance that Hellboy 2 would have been my favourite movie of the year, and the best comic book adaptation. The fact that this year also blessed us with Dark Knight is desperately unfair to Guillermo Del Toro. Tolkien fans can be in good heart that the Hobbit is [...]
Cameo cream
Tropic Thunder has been out for a while in the States now, and opened here last week. By now most people will have seen it, but that still doesn’t mean that I’m going to spoil what I feel is the high point of the movie: an unpublicised role for one of today’s leading actors. The [...]
Been slacking (again)
I’ve been that scourge of the blogosphere lately: the non-updater. So normally I update the blog when I see a movie, and for not much else. I may try and change this in future. For now though, I’ve seen three films lately and not blogged my thoughts on any of them. So here are some [...]
The unstoppable force meets the immovable object
I remember when the first Tim Burton directed Batman film came out. I was 13, and well hyped for it, as you’d expect. The overwhelming talk in the entertainment media was about the choice of Michael Keaton for Batman, and about the peripherals: the Batmobile, the gadgets etc. For Burton’s sequel there was more discussion [...]
