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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
