Before Michael Bay spent a gazillion dollars on the Transformers franchise he made a series of somewhat clichéd action movies, but the one that has always stuck out for me is Bad Boys (his first feature film). Give Bay a relatively small budget and a paper thin plot (two cops bust drug dealers and cop [...]
John pondered holding up a boombox to save the world Hollywood has a large number of easy targets for vitriol such as Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay who produce loud, visually stunning movies that are devoid of any quality story or character development. As many people sagely state “Michael Bay likes blowing sh*t up!”, and [...]
Like many other people I tend to purchase new media on day one. A new game is coming out? Preorder from Amazon or Game. Much of this is enforced by the wonders of the preorder. Buy from X and get an exclusive code to unlock something. Do it in one of those old fashioned brick [...]
It is taken as a given that Pixar are the rightful rulers of CG Animated Movieland(TM) and despite numerous imitations none of the other studios can replicate their magical formula. Dreamworks continue to cram as many pop culture references as is humanly possible into their outings, and previous Sony titles have been a trifle insipid [...]
Thanks to the excessively cold temperatures this past week we went without any post until yesterday when this bumper crop arrived. To be honest I’m amazed it all came at once Planet Terror and Crank 2 were from the Play.com sale (£9.99 each, the only non-digital sale items I bought this..no wait..last year) and Bayonetta [...]
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (henceforth to be referred to as Pelham in this review) is something of an oddball movie because at times it isn’t sure quite what it’s meant to be. Is it an action movie, thriller, character piece? More on that in a moment. This re-imagining (which is Hollywood’s latest [...]
It’s one of those “blogging about not blogging” posts today, sorry about that. It’s probably seen as “meta” or some such nonsense, but I like to try and keep posts like this to a minimum. The truth is, I haven’t really got anything to write about at the moment. Or rather, nothing particularly that I [...]
Released back in 2004, the first Punisher was very much a Marvel property given a cautious outing. The budget was relatively low by both comic adaptation and Hollywood standards, and while it wasn’t a particularly great movie (you can read my review of the very shoddy UK Blu-ray release here) it had its moments. Particularly [...]
As long as there are movies that require a rather dishevelled looking, likeable figure that isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty, Clive Owen will always be in work. In The International he plays Louis Salinger, an Interpol agent who is working to bring down one of the world’s most powerful banks, the IBBC. For [...]
If there is a list of movies that define many thirtysomethings childhoods then that list will always contain mainstays such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters. The 1984 action comedy is regarded as one of the finest geek movies ever made, a true classic of action, comedy and science fiction. The entire script is [...]
