| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) - PG | a matter of life and death - as i know it, with the late great david niven. cracking stuff and guaranteed to bring a tear to a glass eye. | May 19, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Samurai X - Trust & Betrayal - Unrated | December 1, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Twin Warriors (Tai ji zhang san feng) (The Tai-Chi Master) - R |
Aside from too many shots of blown out skies that bugged the hell out of me, this was ery very good. I'll go as far as saying that it has THE best action scenes in any martial arts film I have yet seen and I understand why D_Davis over at Genrebusters has included it in his 100 Movies that Rock! list. One of the bad guys (called Lu ? pictured below) is as camp as Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet too and the dubbed voice they have for him is funny. Also the music by William Woo Wai-lap is great. |
August 17, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Oldboy - R | March 23, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| 28 Weeks Later... - R |
This and it's predecessor owe more to Romero's The Crazies than to zombie films. Sadly despite some positive reviews, I wasn't impressed with this sequel. The one word review... Thin. |
June 8, 2007 | N/A | |||
| A Simple Plan - R |
Billy Bob Thornton fucking *owns* his character in this. Superb |
June 2, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Crank - R |
Genrebuster's Dan Soler must get the hats off for me renting this in the first place, given his rave review. It arrived today, and normally my rental's sit, gather dust and then get sent back unwatched but I was determined to watch this one. (the others that arrived today are both Genrebusters recommendations too - The Place Promised in Our Early Days and The Tai Chi Master) What an insane film! I loved it. Even though it's kinetic energy could so easily have been represented by wobbly handicam action, the directors do an incredible job of making the film look frenetic without the viewer losing their lunch. Jason Statham running with a hospital gown on and a stiffy had me laughing out loud too, not the only moment of hilarity in the film. Even the ending was not a let down, as is so often the case with Hollywood films. |
June 2, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Spider-Man 3 - PG-13 | Not as bad as I feared, but not a patch on the others. | June 2, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Contact - PG |
From the opening scene that makes you feel "." that big, tothat uber cool sound design for the signal, by way of impossible camera moves through glass windows and into mirrors, calling in on James Woods at his reptilian best, handsome Bongo Mcconnaughey teaching religiosity to the fuzzy wuzzies, thought provoking ideas and themes and a star turn by Jodie Foster too. Fine stuff, that even has Donnie Darko's girlfriend in it! It's been too long since I watched it and I am glad I put time aside for it last night. Special thanks to the Cool shite clan for reminding me how good it is from their chat on their recent show. |
June 2, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Suture - Unrated | June 2, 2007 | N/A | ||||
| Zulu - Unrated | the best battle scenes ever filmed, peter jackson used it as the template for lotr. | April 4, 2007 | N/A | |||
| 300 - R |
Yeah it was visually stunning and watching was like all those cool fight scenes from Zulu, Braveheart and LOTR that you didnt want to end rolled into one film.
But, I just turned off the tv 10 minutes ago after watching it, and honestly don't have the slightest urge to get all macho and muscley, shout with a Scots accent a lot, or even use my refuse container's lid as a shield with a french stick as a makeshift sword. I laughed more than I thought I would though, especially at the 7 foot King Xerxes. What a ponce! LMAO when he eyed up 'Sean Connery Light' from behind and then grabbed his shoulders to give his little neck a rub. *snotted myself laughing*... |
April 4, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes) - Unrated | April 1, 2007 | N/A | ||||
| Apocalypto - R |
From the first minutes of animal killings, rape, cruel torture, beheadings, anxiety and sickening gory violence - I watched it praying for it to end. I would have turned it off if not for a friend's high praise. I can't stomach any kind of cruelty to animals, even if they're clearly visual effects, so I particularly despised the bashing to death of the Jaguar. I laughed out loud at the arrival of the Spaniards at the end too, and couldn't help but be reminded of 'Predator' through several key scenes. |
March 31, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Lost In Translation - R | Utterly brilliant in every way. just the way i feel about things too. I relate to this film more and more on so many different levels as time goes on too, surely the mark of quality. | March 21, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Dazed and Confused - R | 1976 ~ The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell bottoms ring and rock n roll ROCKS! Among the best teen films ever made, Linklater's Dazed & Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors to be and incoming freshmen. A launching pad for a number or future stars, Linklaters first studio effort also features endlessly quotable dialogue and a blasting, stadium ready soundtrack. Sidestepping nostalgia, Dazed & Confused is less about the best years of our lives than the boredom, angst and excitement of teenagers waiting for something to happen. | March 11, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Wild Zero - Unrated |
"Rock n Roll!!!" - In the same vein as Repo Man and Bad Taste - if you ever wondered what a 'mondo movie' was, well check any of them out.
Exploding zombie heads, flying saucers, a she-male love interest, hell, even a zombie love story, a hot pants wearing bad guy - and Guitar Wolf killing zombies with guitar picks! Oh and the best rock soundtrack in ages! by my current favourite band "Guitar Wolf" who all do a great acting job too. & this is the only DVD I have bought in 2007 thus far. |
March 6, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Back to the Future - PG | i must have watched this every day over the summer it was released - and at one stage could repeat the script verbatim! it still entertains 22 years later :) | February 20, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Everything is Illuminated - PG-13 | February 17, 2007 | N/A | ||||
| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - R | Maybe it's too quirky for it's own good, but it's just right for me! Bill Murray's 'action' scene is too funny. | February 11, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Assault on Precinct 13 - R | the music in this is great, the scene with the ice cream van still shocks and the tension still affects. also Carpenter's homages to Hawks bring me out in smiles. excellent stuff! | February 11, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Jean De Florette - PG | Rural french drama where an old man and his only relative cast their covetous eyes on the adjoining property - as it has a natural spring, which would be perfect for their latest venture. However, they deliberately set to mischief and block the spring when they discover that the man and his family who have inherited the property and land will be moving in, their intention is to ruin them and make them move away, thus buying the property for a knock down pice. They cruelly watch him toil through the long intense heat of the summer carrying pails of water from the bottom of the steep hill to feed his vegetables, breaking him and leading his family to desperation. Magical. | February 2, 2007 | N/A | |||
| Rushmore - R | love the montages, love the intimate world thats created, love all the characters and bill murray is at a career high in this! | February 2, 2007 | N/A | |||
| The Royal Tenenbaums - R | Widescreen quirkiness from ace director Wes Anderson - what a precocious talent he is. I love it from start to finish, and need to visit 111 Archer Avenue aometime soon. Dalmation mice :-))) | January 31, 2007 | N/A | |||
| The Hound of the Baskervilles - Unrated | Watch this superb Peter Cushing Holmes and be reminded what an excellent screen presence he was. An early Hammer production, with superb sets, wonderful colour and a big fucking scary dog! Director Terence Fisher is the reason I was an under acheiver in school, as I stayed up most week nights to watch all the Hammer films that aired in the early hours. | January 31, 2007 | N/A |
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