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Ridley Scott attached to Monopoly
In one of the stranger “if it were April 1st I’d think it’s a joke” stories to come out of the news recently; it seems that director Ridley Scott [Alien, Gladiator], whose latest film Body of Lies is out next week, is attached to produce and maybe even direct a film based around Monopoly.
There’s no [...]
The Greatest Film Characters Of All Time?
Empire magazine, that long standing bastion of the movie-making industry, is compiling their list of the 100 greatest film characters. You can enter your nominations HERE. If, like me, you get a little stuck with the myriad of options; here are some ideas I’m going to throw out for you guys to consider.
Han Solo [Star [...]
Samuel L Jackson Yelling - A LOT!
A quick update. It’s Monday, you guys out there reading this probably want something to pass the time, so why not take a few minutes and read the quite hilarious 11 Best Film Moment of Samuel L Jackson Yelling. Including that bit from Deep Blue Sea. Beware spoilers;
http://blogofhilarity.com/the-11-best-film-moments-of-samuel-l-jackson-yelling.htm
Burn After Reading
The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men) move back to comedy with this funny and rather intelligent piece of ‘espionage’ action. Put very simply, it’s a study of what happens when a lot of really quite stupid people are allowed to run riot with “classified” data and it plays out as a comedy of [...]
Star Trek goes shiny, James Bond goes nuts, Watchmen goes public
Ok, so I’ve been a little quiet over the past couple of weeks, for this we can blame the Credit Crunch. Though that’s more because everyone else appears to be blaming the credit-cunch for things unrelated in any way to global markets to I figure why not jump on the band-wagon. However, in the past [...]
Guy Ritchie casts Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law as Sherlock Holmes and Watson
So, this is an interesting piece of casting. In a press conference, Guy Ritchie has announced that Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man) and Jude Law (Alfie) have signed on to his latest production, tentatively titled “Sherlock Holmes”, set for 2009. Now that is an inventive title.
The various rumours I’ve heard are that it’s to be [...]
West Wing Season 2 DVD Review
Following the heart-shredding climax to Season 1; The West Wing returns for a second season and we pick up seconds after we left off… Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden could learn a lot from Josiah “Jeb” Bartlett
I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone. So I’ll try and avoid telling you who (if anyone) dies [...]
No Country For Old Men Blu Ray Review
No Country For Old Men won 4 Oscars. Let’s get that out of the way first. It gave the impossibly talented Joel and Ethan Coen their 2nd, 3rd and 4th Oscars in an already impressive career and introduced Javier Bardem to the world as a pudding-bowl-haircut sporting assassin. It is a quiet film, a thoughtful [...]
Tropic Thunder Review
Tropic Thunder tells the story of a group of actors filming a Vietnam War story; soon they find the action to be far more real than they wanted.
There’s no way around it; Tropic Thunder has the potential to be an incredibly offensive movie if played to the wrong crowd. With Robert Downey Jr. in black-face, [...]
Dexter Season 1 DVD Review
It’s difficult to know where to begin when reviewing a DVD set of a show quite so twisted as Dexter. With Season 2 currently drawing in the viewers on FX and the Region 2 box set of season 1 selling well, it’s clear that Dexter has an audience, as is the news that a third [...]
(4 out of 5)
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