I'm a little late with this so forgive me but I felt it imperative to correct some wrong in the world. I recently explained my utter dislike of Babel which I wont do again but it's enough to say it's as miserly a piece of cinema as you're likely to see. SO to restore some [...]

"My name is Chev Chelios, and today is the day I die"
Now this gem is out on DVD I thought it got the fair hearing it deserves. It’s a bit hard to know where to start with ‘Crank’ as I’m not sure I’ve ever really seen a film quite like it, but the formula seems [...]

Aside from ‘The Last King of Scotland’ the only other Kevin Macdonald film I’ve seen is ‘Touching The Void’, an entertaining, and at times hilarious, film about a pretty horrific subject, namely a climbing disaster and the life and death consequences of it. In many ways ‘The Last King Of Scotland’ is similar. The bloody [...]

Paul Verhoeven is an odd guy, I'm not totally sure how he's perceived in Hollywood but I'm sure to most people he's the Dutch guy that makes big-screen soft core porn movies. Verhoeven's Hollywood career has been chequered, with most of his films wavering  between the aforementioned porn and intensely violent action films with a [...]

Last night I was lucky enough to see one of the first full screenings of Hot Fuzz. While I'm going to write a proper review nearer the release date (16th Feb in the UK, 13th of April in the US), but it's fresh in my mind and I need to write down what I thought [...]

Before I go any further, I have to say I just don't see what all the fuss is about… I watched The Host and it got a big fat "Meh" from me. I'm big onto my monster flicks, and love Korean cinema, but I couldn't help but feel totally let down by the movie. I [...]

I've been waiting for this one for a while now. I had a feeling it was going to shake up my top three movies of the year, and boy was I in for a treat. It's a wonderful and truly amazing work. I found myself utterly gobsmacked staring at the fantastic looking Digital Projection (oh [...]