Category Archives: Great Movies

Guardians of the Galaxy is the world’s most expensive jumble sale; a one hundred and seventy million dollar affair that is rough and ready and subtly lampoons its sci-fi and superhero roots at every opportunity. A seat of the pants … Continue reading →

Joel (Jim Carrey) is at the train station awaiting the next silver metal chariot to speed him to work when he abruptly has an urge to be somewhere else. This is very unlike Joel. A randomly chosen alternate train has … Continue reading →

I’m not going to raise anything here that you don’t already know. The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best films in the 90s, though it is a shame that the very things that made it great conspired to keep … Continue reading →

While The Lord of the Rings trilogy set the bar very high, at its core it was essentially the tale of a bunch of very different travelling companions embarking upon a long and arduous journey beset by many perils, in … Continue reading →

In normal situations if I was invited to pay money to watch a serious Sandra Bullock and a carefree George Clooney coexist for 90 minutes onscreen I’d run a mile. Ok walk a mile. Ok take a taxi… Ok just … Continue reading →

Like Full Metal Jacket before it, Hamburger Hill is a film in two distinct sections. The film opens with new recruits just arrived from America to bolster the ranks of soldiers who are on down-time. This gives the recruits time … Continue reading →

The Usual Suspects, like The Sixth Sense, is so more than a ‘twist’ film. Nonetheless that is what both films have become known for in the decade and more since they were released. The Usual Suspects starts with a police … Continue reading →

I watched Finding Neverland about a month ago, but I haven’t written about it until now. (Normally I write my reviews the same week I watch the flick.) The primary reason – for once – wasn’t laziness but fear. It … Continue reading →

There are a great many scientists and researchers conducting amazing and convoluted experiments daily, attempting to cure any number of diseases and viruses (granted there is probably just as many trying to create the newest boner pill and weight loss … Continue reading →

There’s a stigma attached to sequels. They are instantly deemed to be somehow less in every respect when compared to their predecessors. It is not the quality of Iron Man 3 that will see it unfairly lumped with a bunch … Continue reading →