The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
Continue reading
New DVDs & Blu-ray releases, Movie, TV & Gaming Reviews!
The Guard: It’s not long into this film before we realise just how unorthodox the behaviours are of Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) when he disturbs a crime scene by taking some pieces of paper …
Continue readingKill List gets off to a powerful start with a domestic row between ex-soldier Jay (Neil Maskell, below) and Shel (MyAnna Buring, bottom picture) about… well, what do married couples usually argue about? Money. The …
Continue readingHorrible Bosses begins with stockbroker Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) telling us in a voiceover that in a lot of businesses no-one ever likes to take shit from anyone, and that such a design for life …
Continue readingBad Teacher is obviously about Cameron Diaz playing a teacher, in this case by the name of Elizabeth Halsey, but at the start of the film, she’s actually leaving John Adams Middle School, known as …
Continue readingX-Men First Class begins back in Poland, 1944 like the opening of the first X-Men film, where a young Erik is seen attempting to open the gates at Auschwitz through special powers. Cut to Westchester, …
Continue readingMimic is one of those films I have always meant to get round to watching, not least because it stars the achingly gorgeous Mira Sorvino in the lead role, and it also highlights the time …
Continue readingThe Woman begins with the appearance of a grubby woman’s midriff onscreen and her stroking her blood-smeared stomach. As the camera zooms out we see she’s been stabbed and is trying to clean the wound. …
Continue readingEmpire of Passion (aka Ai No Borei), is the sequel to 1976’s In The Realm Of The Senses, but while it deals with sex, it’s not exactly as ground-breaking as its prequel. In fact, it …
Continue readingIn The Realm Of The Senses (aka Ai No Corrida), also probably known as John Wayne Bobbitt’s least-favourite film, for reasons that will become apparent, is a strange sexual tale of lust, adultery and why …
Continue readingKill The Irishman: It’s Cleveland, 1975 and Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is clearly a guy some people don’t like. While driving along, his Cadillac’s radio starts to short out and he immediately attempts to jump …
Continue reading