Like my other reviews of comic book movies, I should point out my appreciation of the source material. I really enjoy Hellboy the comic – Mike Mignola's creation is a wonderful idea, the artwork is atmospheric and gothic while still being recognisable as the product of a craftsman, using shadow…
(Not all of my reviews are as full as they should be. I'm trying to get all my writing together on this blog, scattered around as it is, so the style of this review might seem different to more recent posts. The theme of this post and the ones over…
Day Watch is the second film in a proposed trilogy, coming after the first film, Night Watch. (Confusingly, the films are adapted from the novel called Night Watch, each film being one part of the three-story book, even though the novel is the first in a trilogy, with the second…
As someone who enjoys watching films perhaps more than average, I enjoy films that love films. This can be a film that has nods/homages/steals from other films, little Easter eggs dotted throughout, to films that are about films and film-making. Some people think it far too incestuous, a cinematic navel-gazing…
A young girl is orphaned, taken in by old man who has also taken in a group of boys – mind out of gutter – who teaches them to be wielders of the sword. They discover that the old man is a former samurai for the shogun and has vowed…
I had a strange reaction when watching Bridget Jones: The Edge or Reason. It made me not want to write about it on the blog because that would in some way validate its existence. This made my brain go a little funny, which is more than this pointless and annoying…
Spaced was one of the best sitcoms of the past 10 years. Shaun of the Dead was one of the best British films of the past 5 years (and the best rom-zom-com so far). What about Hot Fuzz? Hot Fuzz is the best British action comedy in recent memory and…
This isn’t really a review. It’s more of a collection of my thoughts on the film. This film has been reviewed to an incredible degree on the blogosphere, as is appropriate, and I’m writing this over a week after it came out in the UK, not to mention the two…
Based on the new box office records set by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (or POTC: DMC, which makes it sound like an old-school rapper) in the US, it would seem that everyone has seen this film, making this review redundant. For those who haven’t, I say –…
When I was a little younger than I am now, when my hair had less grey and I could stay up late without getting a headache the next morning, I found out about the Holy Grail conspiracy. I can’t recall the exact sequence of events, but they revolved around my…