Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Here are some pretty cool, for sci-fi geeks anyway, print ads produced by New Zealand advertising agency DDB New Zealand, to promote the screening of Aliens vs. Predator when it was on SKY TV. As a massive Predator, and Alien, fan boy, I love this stuff. My personal favorite is Alien vs. Predator totem tennis. [...]
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
It was with great anticipation that I went along to watch the Watchmen on the weekend. As we all know though, with great anticipation, can come great disappointment. So does the film deliver?
The graphic novel (note: not comic) Watchmen is one of the more revered illustrated stories in the universe. It was first released in [...]
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
When you sit down to watch a movie with the title “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, you do so with certain expectations. You want laughs and you expect jokes that you wouldn’t feel comfortable re-telling to your mother. Fortunately Zack and Miri delivers both in spades, but for me, it delivered so much more. [...]
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
In an effort to inject a little more culture into my life, I decided to go and see a film nominated for five Academy Awards, ‘The Reader’.
The Reader is based upon the 1995 German novel ‘Der Vorleser’, that funnily enough translates to ‘The Reader’. The novel was written by German law professor and judge Bernhard [...]
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Watching Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, there will be times that you find yourself thinking that you are watching a documentary rather than a fictional film. The guy looks like he’s lived through a thousand hells, so when he’s playing a down and out wrestler, you believe it.
In The Wrestler, Rourke plays Randy “The Ram” [...]
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Gran Torino is the movie of the year. I know that is a bold statement, given that the year is less than 30 days old, but if another movie comes out in 2009 that can top Gran Torino, then it is going to have to be mighty good.
Gran Torino is the story of Walt Kowalski, [...]
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Resident Evil: Degeneration is the first full length CG animation film based on the Resident Evil video games by Capcom. Unlike the Resident Evil live action films, Resident Evil: Degeneration is set within the same “universe” that the video games are. If you are into the games at all, Degeneration is said to take place [...]
Monday, January 5th, 2009
I missed seeing Wanted at the movies, but on the weekend I finally got around to catching it on DVD. I found it to be an entertaining action movie, however my gripe with it was that it had very little in common with the graphic novel of which it was supposedly based on.
Wanted, the mini-series [...]
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Smashing Pumpkins – If All Goes Wrong is a double disc dvd set focusing on the return of the Smashing Pumpkins circa 2006. Disc one features the Jack Gulick documentary, If All Goes Wrong, which received a limited theatrical release. Disc two features a live set taken from the residency tour that the documentary follows.
For [...]
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Quantum of Solace is a film that has garnered mixed reviews, and having seen it on the weekend, I can now understand why. In my opinion, Casino Royale, the 2006 James Bond outing, is one of the standout Bond films. It did for Bond films, what Batman Begins did for the Batman franchise. It’s for [...]
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
I took advantage of Melbourne Cup Day to get myself along to the cinema to see RocknRolla, the latest film from Guy Ritchie, the guy that brought us Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
As per Lock Stock… and Snatch, the plot in RocknRolla is hard to summarize. Basically, the film tells the story [...]
