Monthly Archives: April 2014

The Wicker Man – 2006 (Review)

Posted on April 29, 2014 by OGR

Might I start by saying I have seen the original The Wicker Man and find it highly overrated, though I can’t be bothered to muster the effort to track it down and review it here. Of course my thoughts and … Continue reading →

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Clockers (Review)

Posted on April 28, 2014 by OGR

The tone is set early on. In the opening credits in fact, which juxtapose real life images of dead black men and women, all shot and killed in the streets, standing out harshly and set against a sweet should track. … Continue reading →

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Hansel and Gretel: Vampire Hunters (Review)

Posted on April 25, 2014 by OGR

Here is a fairy tale for grown ups. Only it maintains a wilful level of pure silliness that only those willing to think like a kid could appreciate. Soooo, let the kid’s watch? Hardly, the tale might be full of … Continue reading →

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One False Move (Review)

Posted on April 24, 2014 by OGR

When a bloody home invasion is allowed to go too far, a trio of criminals head off on the run carrying cash and drugs and leaving several bodies in their wake. By the time the police have arrived to investigate … Continue reading →

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Heart Condition (Review)

Posted on April 22, 2014 by OGR

Jack Mooney (Bob Hoskins) has lived a life of vice and indulgence. ‘Sometimes’ food has become ‘always’ food, every hour is happy hour and I guess the anti-smoking movement is yet to have an impact on this diminutive stressed out … Continue reading →

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Snowpiercer (Review)

Posted on April 21, 2014 by OGR

To know Snowpiercer is to know perplexion. To embrace frustration as an inevitable by-product of innovation. At once an ambitious explosion of new ideas and undeniable energy, Snowpiercer is stretched across a familiar framework to those who have experienced Delicatessen and … Continue reading →

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We are what we are – Mexico vs America: Duelling Reviews

Posted on April 19, 2014 by OGR

Two films. Two languages. Same premise. Let us decide a winner once and for all. We Are What We Are (Mexican) An elderly man staggers through a shopping mall. He is dishevelled and acting erratically, obviously distressed. He collapses. So … Continue reading →

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Nurse (Review)

Posted on April 18, 2014 by OGR

Nurse is a clumsily plotted and patently calculated attempt to find an audience looking for some kind of combination of sex and violence *snort* that’s of course assuming such an audience exists… …turns out it does. And furthermore it turns … Continue reading →

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The Man (Review)

Posted on April 17, 2014 by OGR

If Sam Jax was looking to pad his stats as the all time king of the box office by taking any and every role available; then he probably added a whole twelve bucks with this. While The Man is not … Continue reading →

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Ghostbusters 2 (Review)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by OGR

As chemists would tell you if they were honest, curing something isn’t a good long term business plan. So when Egon (Harold Ramis), Ray (Dan Ackroyd), Peter (Bill Murray) and Winston (Ernie Hudson) quashed an unnatural uprising lead by demon … Continue reading →

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