At last! At last!!! A summer blockbuster which genuinely busts some blocks. A summer blockbuster without a number at the end of its title, unencumbered by the crushing weight of the expectations engendered by its place in its franchise. A summer blockbuster inspired not by a comic book or a corny old television [...]

2001? SHREK was a curious beast. Created by DreamWorks rather than Mouse House supremos Pixar, it was an odd, sometimes ungainly CGI extravaganza which managed to work despite some deficiencies in the script department and a ?ook?which just didn? seem right to those of us who? just about [...]

One of the better British sitcoms of recent vintage has undoubtedly been SPACED, Channel 4′s wickedly funny slacker comedy about two unlikely flatmates and their circle of bizarre friends and acquaintances. Written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica (THE ROYLE FAMILY) Stevenson, SPACED was a modern show for modern people, chocful of sly cultural [...]

Two years ago, you may recall, I was a little bit under whelmed by Sam Raimi’s first SPIDER-MAN movie. Although I was as pleased as the next fan boy to see the world’s most famous webhead on the big screen, there was [...]

“She’ll be back.”
They said it couldn’t be done. They said it shouldn’t be done. But Hollywood can never really leave a franchise alone so they went ahead and did it anyway. They did a second sequel to James Cameron’s influential sci-fi cheapie THE TERMINATOR, twelve years after the legendary JUDGMENT DAY sequel. ‘King of the [...]

Let? get something straight from the start. TIMELINE isn? anything like as bad a movie as the press – both popular and genre – have tried to make out. I? not suggesting for a moment that it? anything like a really good film as it? clearly not; it? [...]

Now this is more like it! With the summer season having got off to a distinctly underpowered start with the feeble VAN HELSING, it’s a pleasure to report that Roland Emmerich – the man who lives to destroy the world on celluloid – hasn’t disappointed with his latest [...]

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Having spectacularly tanked at the US Box office and having attracted the sort of notices usually reserved for infectious diseases, LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER – THE CRADLE OF LIFE looks like the end for the cinematic exploits of the pneumatic Lady Croft, adventurer extraordinaire and all-round saucy poutress. What a [...]

“You’re in the middle of a war between Vampires and Lycan’s. . .”
My god THE MATRIX has a lot to answer for. Since its release in 1999, the multiplexes have been flooded with moodily lit, slow mo, slickly filmed actioners. UNDERWORLD is a prime example of the ‘Matrix effect’- black, pvc clad heroine, lots of [...]

Saving Private Ryan. Pitch Black. The Fast And The Furious.
A dream introduction for an up and coming mega-star or what?
With that trilogy of excellent movies, came such a megastar-the ‘new breed of hero’ aka-Vin Diesel. Diesel, a hulking, brooding man, looks like he could either blow you away with dual magnums of [...]