Category Archives: Great Movies

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance

Chan Wook Park is what I was told to call him by imdb, so that is what I am going with, even though the poster above goes a differnet way and other reviews try still more variations. In any case … Continue reading

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The Blues Brothers

By now there’s a diminishing chance that you’ve seen the film, given that it’s 30 odd years old and good music doesn’t seem to be cool any more, judging by the charts. Rather than a review: If you haven’t seen … Continue reading

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Slither

Comedy doesn’t have to be all “why did the chicken…” or “my gosh I can’t believe Jason Biggs just drank that!” all the time. Sometimes it can be the compounded effect of a series of elements and incidents so absurd … Continue reading

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The Ref

There’s no denying it… Most of the humour in The Ref is a result of people being mean, and not just “Your Mama’s so fat” mean, but “Your Mama’s a cocksucker” mean. Had I not seen it already my first … Continue reading

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Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day takes a sci-fi premise, grounds it with a banal everyday backdrop and then squeezes every last drop of humour out of the premise without obvious sightgags and cheesy jokes. It is, simply put, Bill Murray’s best comedic effort, … Continue reading

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Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

So let’s hypothesize here. You make one of the more successful No-Budget films of all time against all odds. It is a horror film with no actors, minimal SFX and minimal story yet makes a comparatively huge profit (after a … Continue reading

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Coming to America

It is 3 minutes and 45 seconds after the movie starts that the central character of Akeem, played by Eddie Murphy actually speaks. It is 45 seconds after that when the first joke is fired, not a great one it … Continue reading

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The Jackie Chan Wrap-Up

This marathon started on February 22nd with Around the World in 80 Days. In truth I thought it’d last a month, 6 weeks tops. Then I kept deciding to add more films to the list. Then I decided to wait … Continue reading

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Drunken Master 2

It took a hell of a lot longer than I initially anticipated but here we are at the end of the Jackie Chan movie marathon. It hasn’t all been plain sailing, I had obviously brainwashed myself into remembering Rob B … Continue reading

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Batman Begins

By now you either know that Batman Begins rocks and basically redefined the comic book film genre as we know it, or you don’t watch movies. So rather than piss around for 1,000 words rehashing the story I’ll cut to … Continue reading

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