Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
I sat down to watch Kick-Ass on the weekend with high expectations. The movie has been picking up rave reviews all over the place, it’s based on a comic, and has ‘super hero’ themes – why wouldn’t I have high expectations? Kick-Ass tells the story of Dave Lizewski, a teenage who one day decides that [...]
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Zombie movies. Is there, or will there ever be, a greater genre? Any answer other than no is incorrect. On the weekend, I watched a zombie movie that has forced me to re-assess my top 5 zombie movies of all time. Hence this list. This list may be contentious, heck it caused me some inner [...]
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Here’s an awesome piece of stop/go lego animation version of the fake trailer ‘Machete’ from the Grindhouse movies. It’s freakin awesome and would have been bloody time consuming to put together, so give it a look. It’s legoxplotation…
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
When I saw the first Transformers movie, I can’t say I was all that impressed with what I saw. I guess I shouldn’t have expected so much from a movie that is essentially based on a toy. So with my expectations suitably lowered after the first film, I went along to catch Transformers 2: Revenge [...]
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
With the anticipation of the next installment of the Transformers franchise continues to build, the films stars have hit the promotional trail to make sure it’s not a box office bomb. Here in Australia, we had former Home and Away starlet Isabel Lucas talking the talk. She appeared on Rove Sunday night, and I have [...]
Monday, June 15th, 2009
I crawled along to the movies this weekend to catch “The Hangover”. Directed by Todd Phillips, the guy behind Old School and Road Trip, “The Hangover” follows the trials and tribulations of a group of four friends who travel to Les Vegas for a bachelor party. Hilarity ensues when three of the guys wake up [...]
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
I walked out of the cinema after watching the latest Star Trek moving scratching my head. Why? I wasn’t sure whether I liked it or not. Friends have asked me what I thought of it, and the best I have been able to muster is an “it was ok”. Off the bat, I’m not a [...]
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Sitting down to review X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I’m caught between two lines of thought. On the one hand, I enjoyed Wolverine as an popcorn action/adventure movie. On the other hand, as someone who’s a fan of the comics, I was a little disappointed in the way it treated some of the characters that I’d been [...]
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Here is the must see movie of the decade, Midgets vs. Mascots. The preview alone is worth the price of admission. If you’re easily offended, maybe you should probably give it a wide berth. Midgets vs. Mascots is described as a mockumentary that follows a contest between midgets and mascots, each group fighting for their [...]
Monday, April 20th, 2009
It’s not often that I hire a DVD based solely on the blurb on the back of the cover, but that was the case with 88 Minutes. I walked into Blockbuster, wanted to see a film, and after picking up a few, settled on 88 Minutes, a psychological thriller, and vehicle for Al Pacino. 88 [...]
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct; speaking or acting in two different ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive; double-dealing. Duplicity is also a film that follows the escapades of two corporate spies, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Both characters are former secret service agents from their respective countries (CIA and MI-6) who [...]
