Monthly Archives: March 2013

The OGR List of Guilty Musical Pleasures

Posted on March 30, 2013 by OGR

In my mind there is music you ‘love’ (Category #1), music you ‘like’ (Category #2) and music you ‘listen to’ – but wouldn’t necessarily want others to know about (Category #3). It’s kinda like the old joke about the similarities … Continue reading →

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A Good Day to Die Hard: Die Hard 5 (Review)

Posted on March 29, 2013 by OGR

Look out Russia. Forget the goodwill built over the past decades since the Cold war with US that had the globe on the edge of world war. John McClane (Bruce Willis… duh) is vacationing in Moscow, and he’s decided it’s … Continue reading →

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Grabbers (Review)

Posted on March 28, 2013 by OGR

Now admittedly ‘grabbers’ is hardly a very scientific name, granted only after research, analysis and careful consideration, but once you realise the source of the name is the town drunk (actually one of many town drunks) it makes more sense. … Continue reading →

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Primeval (Review)

Posted on March 26, 2013 by OGR

If this is indeed ‘inspired by true events’, then I can only guess someone saw Anaconda, Rogue and similar films and thought ‘I am truly inspired to make money from a lazy premise; crocodiles!’. Primeval is your standard giant beastie … Continue reading →

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Phantoms (Review)

Posted on March 25, 2013 by OGR

Maybe guys like John Carpenter and Dean Koontz should be a little more selective at what they put their name to. Case in point is ‘Dean Koontz’s Phantoms’, a laborious exercise in flogging a lame premise to death with inept … Continue reading →

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B Movie Haikus – File under ‘Meh’: Death Race 3 / The Happening / The Bone Snatcher

Posted on March 23, 2013 by OGR

This time about I’m filing together a few movies that aren’t all time awful. In fact given budgetary limitations and the restraints of their respective premises you could consider these Understandably Ordinary. Put another way, you won’t go out of your … Continue reading →

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Mama (Review)

Posted on March 22, 2013 by OGR

Mama is the busiest, most active and over-protective ghost I can remember. In fact if you replace ‘ghost’ with ‘mother” you might get an idea of just how full this spectral being’s afterlife is. I wonder if somewhere in the … Continue reading →

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Black Hawk Down (Review)

Posted on March 21, 2013 by OGR

Black Hawk Down is one of those brilliantly realised films that will nonetheless depress the hell out of you. Ridley Scott expertly tells the story of a botched mission in civil war torn Somalia, albeit from a decidedly pro-US perspective, … Continue reading →

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The Brothers Bloom (Review)

Posted on March 19, 2013 by OGR

After the excellent little tempter named Brick showed solid promise and Looper instantly became my Film of 2012 until proven otherwise, I was pleased to discover that director Rian Johnson had also previously released this film. ‘Great’ I thought, another … Continue reading →

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Krull (Review)

Posted on March 18, 2013 by OGR

For decades I thought Krull was just another Conan the Barbarian clone, a shirts off muscle headed brain-dead hack ‘n’ slash adventure. So I never bothered with it. Then the other night I flicked it on, and from the opening … Continue reading →

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