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? nothing more and nothing less than a …
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 effort, the weather-gone-wild enviro-thriller THE DAY AFTER …
?ello boys. You?e all wet.?p> 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 …
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“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 …
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 read …
It’s probably ironic, really. Back in the 1970s I was pretty much obsessed my comic books in general and Marvel Comics in particular. Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, The X-Men; I devoured them all month after month. Marvel could do no wrong and I spent a youthful fortune collecting these four-colour fantasies. But I fell out of …
Let me break this to you as gently as I can; THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is rubbish. I’m trying to save you from yourself here. It’s not rubbish in a LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN/VAN HELSING sort of way – at least they were amusingly tacky and nice to look at. No, CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is …
“Evelyn?m sorry? don’t always winT It would appear that time lords are like buses. You wait a whole month for one to appear, only to get two at once. This is true in the case of the new Doctor Who release- Project: Lazarus, which stars both Colin Baker as the sixth Doctor and Sylvester McCoy …