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Movie Review - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The sixth Harry Potter movie - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - started somewhat at a disadvantage for me, in that it was based on my least favourite book of the series. This didn't of course mean that I would automatically be unimpressed wit...
Movie Review - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen carries on where the first Michael Bay Transformers movie left off - Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is about to leave for college, leave his car that turns into a robot behind, and try to live a normal life. His parents (playe...
Movie Review - Coraline (3D)
I'd been looking forward to seeing Coraline, though a bit miffed that we had to wait months for it to come to cinemas in the UK. Still, arrive in Britain it did, and we duly went to see it. We watched it in 3D because... well, because it was showing ...
Movie Review - Monsters vs Aliens
I'd been looking forward to Monsters vs Aliens for a long time, nad I'm glad to say that it didn't disappoint. Unfortunately I didn't get to see it in 3D, but the normal showings are well worth going to as it's a hugely enjoyable movie (and I suspect...
Movie Review - 17 Again
Mike O'Donnell is not a happy man. Temporarily living with his best friend and ultra-geek Ned Gold, he is facing divorce and already is a virtual stranger to his two kids. He thinks back to the time when it all seemed to have gone wrong for him - a b...
Movie Review - Night at the Museum - Battle of the Smithsonian
If there's one film I hadn't been expecting a sequel to, it was Night at the Museum - somehow it felt like they'd done all that could be done with the idea. However the decision-makers obviously thought otherwise and Ben Stiller is back in the role o...
Movie Review - Star Trek (2009)
One of the most hotly-awaited movie releases this decade, Star Trek takes on not one but two notoriously tricky challenges - making a prequel to a series fans know in obsessive depth, and introducing a time-travel element to the plot. However J.J.Abr...
Movie Review - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine had been keenly awaited but to be honest, after finding X-Men 3: The Last Stand completely fail to keep up the standards set by the first two X-Men films, I wasn't expecting too much of it. As it was, I found the film largely...
Movie Review - The Russia House
The Russia House is an international espionage thriller which, according to the blurb, is ”A filmmaking tour de force and incredibly sophisticated, suspenseful and sexy entertainment”. Don’t believe the blurb – but don’t necessarily be put ...
Movie Review - King Ralph
King Ralph is a surprisingly enjoyable film starring John Goodman as Ralph Jones, an American who, after a freak accident wipes out the entire British royal family, finds himself hurtled onto the throne with the weight of a country on his shoulders. ...
Movie Review - Hotel Rwanda
” When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say: read our history. The Tutsi were collaborators for the belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are coc...
Movie Review - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a deadpan comedy starring Bill Murray (watch all his fans proclaim this the best movie ever just because he’s in it… again…), Angelica Houston, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchet, and a host of other stars includin...
Star Trek [2009] - Review
Sorry, tried to avoid over-using superlatives in my review but failed...Read my review of Star Trek [2009] on Epinions. ...
Movie Review - In Good Company
I went to see In Good Company with mixed expectations. On the one hand it is directed by Paul Weitz who was in charge of one of my favourite comedies of all time, About A Boy, and Dennis Quaid starred in another of my all-time faves, Undercover Blues...
Movie Review - Ray [2004]
Ray, a biopic of singer Ray Charles, was one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year (or in the case of us Brits, the following year!), and it didn't disappoint. What it does do (for people like myself who have basically no knowledge of the sin...
Movie Review - Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael
Roxy Charmicheal is coming home! proclaim banners and posters all around the sleepy village where the oddly named Dinky (played by a young Winona Ryder) lives. In fact, it seems as if the whole town is obsessed with Roxy – despite the fact that she...
Trailer for The Net
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Movie Review - The Net
The Net is a technological thriller starring Sandra Bullock, who plays Angela Bennett, a systems trouble-shooter with a particular interest in viruses. She is a typical nerd, sleeping little, living on take away food, having no boyfriend and practica...
Movie Review - Phantom of the Opera (2004)
The Phantom of the Opera is, of course, based on the popular musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I have never been a fan of his work although there are some really nice songs I’ve heard from Phantom. (Never did think that Sarah Brightman could sing tho...
Movie Review - The Family Man
The Family Man is a sweet film starring Nicholas Cage who, at the start of the film, is saying goodbye to his girlfriend Kate (Tia Leoni), who has grave misgivings about this trip to London he's going on. He dismisses her premonition that this is the...
Trailer for A Knight's Tale
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Movie Review - Green Card
Imagine a meeting of two souls on their wedding day. Hearts are a-flutter, love is in the air, and all that good stuff.Then imagine two souls meeting on their wedding day. Love is the last thing on their mind. A marriage of convenience – a green ca...
Movie Review - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Released in 1981, this is a movie I first saw when I was very young but which I never forgot, and repeated viewings only make it more enjoyable. There's no slow build-up – it's straight into the action as Archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford...
Movie Review - Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile is a thoughtful treatment of the subject of both female identity and the history of art. Now if that isn’t enough to scare the pants off macho action film fans then I don’t know what is, but it’s a good film in its own right. Wh...
Movie Review - Wimbledon
I’d been looking forward to watching Wimbledon for months, mainly because of the lead pairing of Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Master & Commander, A Knight’s Tale) and Kursten Dunst (Spiderman 2, Mona Lisa Smile). And of course the prospect...
Movie Review - The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Story of the Weeping Camel is a very unusual film made by German company THINKFilm in association with National Geographic. Set in Mongolia, it is more a documentary about the lives of a nomadic family than a conventional film, though there is a ...
Movie Review - The Chronicles of Riddick
Pitch Black was a fine film, in fact I considered worthy of being placed at number in my Top Ten Science Fiction Films list.Sadly, The Chronicles of Riddick is nothing whatsoever like its prequel.What we basically have here is a plot that had some po...
Movie Review - I, Robot
I might have been disappointed had I watched this thinking I was going to watch something vaguely reminiscent of Isaac Asimov’s stories, but fortunately I wasn’t that naive. (Will Smith being the star was my first clue…) What we have here may o...
Movie Review - Toy Story 2
Toy Story was a wonderful cartoon, PIXAR’s first feature-length movie, and the first entirely computer-animated full-length to hit the big screen. In my opinion, the sequel builds on the strengths of the original and is a lot funnier to boot. (As w...
Movie Review - 13 Going On 30
13 Going On 30 revolves around a simple concept – a 13 year-old girl makes a wish to be “thirty, flirty, and thriving” as portrayed by her favourite magazine, and that wish comes true. Without remembering the intervening years, she suddenly wak...
