Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd is the second attempt to bring the comic character to the screen, after the not particularly successful Sylvester Stallone vehicle of the nineties. Critically and artistically it has proved...
View ArticleBreaking Bad
Breaking Bad Series 4 is now available on DVD. I would highly recommend it with one caveat: you have to have seen the first three series to actually know what is going on and get the best from it....
View ArticleLooper
I went to see Looper after a host of positive quotes on the promotional materials from publications I don’t tend to disbelieve (if something is only lauded by the like of Heat, Look or the Daily Star I...
View ArticleChallenge 25
There’s a movement in supermarkets where staff will challenge you to produce ID to prove that you are over 18 if they believe you to look under 25 when buying an age restricted item. To my chagrin I...
View ArticleDoctor Who – The Angels Take Manhattan
The current run of Doctor Who took a break with the episode “The Angels Take Manhattan” which had been widely trailed as featuring the final farewell for the Doctor and his current travelling...
View ArticleThe Story Of Pi
The Story of Pi is directed by Ang Lee, and is the story of a boy who sets sail from India to Canada in a cargo ship with his family and the contents of their private zoo. It’s told in flashback, with...
View ArticleOverreaching Conspiracies
Billy Wilder used to say that if you thought you had a problem with the third act of a story then the problem was invariably in the first (act). Basically a story has to be constructed in such a way as...
View ArticleThe Best Of Norman Rockwell
For my birthday my sister got me “The Best of Norman Rockell”, which is a lavishly illustrated book with no real biography or notes. The plates and prints are incredibly well produced and run the...
View ArticleDoctor Who – The Snowmen
It’s really hard to fairly review Doctor Who – The Snowmen without spoiling it for anyone who hasn’t seen it. The good bits tend to hinge on the plot, which can’t really be revealed because part of the...
View ArticleJack Reacher
Jack Reacher, with Tom Cruise as the eponymous character, is the story of an ex military investigator who sets out to discover the truth of a seemingly open and shut case of a lunatic sniper. My mother...
View ArticleWreck It Ralph
Wreck It Ralph is Disney’s latest movie, and also their latest foray into the digital animation arena. Arguably it skews towards a younger audience than Pixar’s work, but I greatly prefer it to Brave....
View ArticlePaperman
Paperman is the animated short before Wreck It Ralph. It is also available (legally) online in its entirety. Apparently it features ground-breaking techniques and the melding of computer and...
View ArticleParker
Parker, starring Jason Statham, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez and Michael Chilkis is probably going to go down in the annals of history as “that Jason Statham movie with Jennifer Lopez pretending to be...
View ArticleWhy You’re Eating Horsemeat
There is a wilful ignorance of how processed food is made. We don’t want to think about the reality or logistics of it, and our voluntary disconnect from our food is being challenged by the current...
View ArticleGun Machine
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis is his second novel. It revolves around a detective who uncovers a room full of hundreds of guns linked to unsolved crimes and an overreaching conspiracy hinging on their...
View ArticleFast 5
The Fast and the Furious film franchise is a series of films centring around people driving fast cars in various illegal ways. It’s not high art and the better ones have Vin Diesel in them. Fast 5 sees...
View ArticleReign Of Fire
Reign Of Fire is a film starring Christian Bale, an under credited Gerard Butler and Matthew McConaughey as the token American star to make it more saleable overseas. It dates from before Butler or...
View ArticleTriple A Failure
Moody’s has just announced that it is decreasing the UK’s credit rating from AAA to AA1. It doesn’t sound like much but it is the central plank of the Conservative’s policy for the country...
View ArticleLive Free Or Die Hard
Die Hard isn’t just a film franchise, it’s a description of the state of the franchise. The original film is brilliant, save for one annoyance. The second film is largely good, but too open and over...
View ArticleGoing Old
I always told myself that, when I went bald, I would shave my head. Unfortunately I missed this by some time, as no one actually bothered to tell me I had gone bald and I only noticed when confronted...
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