Monthly Archives: May 2012

How to lose friends and alienate people (Review)

Supposedly based on a real life story about a British journo to whom (most of these) events actually happened, How to lose friends and alienate people has a couple of decent comedic moments, but like the lead character Sidney Young … Continue reading

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Inside Man (Review)

Inside ‘Inside Man’ is a bland one note heist movie desperate to bore audiences. Thankfully this generic formula flick is quelled by quality acting and an especially stylish yet subdued directing effort by Spike Lee. At its core Inside man … Continue reading

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Idiot Box (Review)

Idiot Box tells an all too possible story of two perpetually unemployed bogans who decide to rob a bank after watching one too many movies and drinking one too many VBs. The two lads are Mick (Jeremy Sims) and Kev … Continue reading

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Red Riding Trilogy 1974… 1980… 1983… Review

In the Seventies there was no Twitter, no email, no Google, no mobile phones, cars with sat nav, no bloggers demanding street justice, not even handicams to capture any Rodney King-like events. In the Seventies the board was heavily tilted … Continue reading

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The Mummy Trilogy Review

In ancient Egyptian times a particularly lovestruck (read: horny) individual named Imhotep got a little too close to the King’s main squeeze. The King was a little miffed, and in his rage killed the woman and buried Imhotep and his … Continue reading

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Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows (Review)

Look, I know the literary version of Sherlock Holmes rarely if ever engaged in life or death fisticuffs, even if he were able to deduce the immediate future he probably didn’t engage slo-mo in his visions. Though the novels didn’t … Continue reading

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (Review)

My notes to this film have the heading ‘Commercial Suicide’, after all who gives away practically the entire plot and the ending in the title? I mean if the writers of this film decided to remake some classics we might … Continue reading

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A History of Violence (Review)

Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a well known, well liked small town café manager. Or is he? He works long hours, knows all his customers – and they know him – and has a loving wife (Maria Bello) and two … Continue reading

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Drop Zone (Review)

I liked Drop Zone better when it was called Point Break, it had more action, a few more jokes, and Gary Busey was on the other side. It also wasn’t confined to the ‘this will always be the cutting edge … Continue reading

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Review)

My lasting impressions from The Pirates: Band of Misfits will forever be tarnished by the experience of my 5 year old movie buddy. My son loves pirates, we have made pirate hats and he has been to pirate themed parties … Continue reading

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