Grudge Match has been described as “Rocky Balboa vs Raging Bull – 30 Years Later”, and it sums it up pretty well as it starts with dodgy CGI applied to their faces in flashback scenes …
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Grudge Match has been described as “Rocky Balboa vs Raging Bull – 30 Years Later”, and it sums it up pretty well as it starts with dodgy CGI applied to their faces in flashback scenes …
Continue readingThe Wolf of Wall Street tells the real-life tale of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker and playboy who was making almost a million dollars a week by the time he was 26 years old. Starting at …
Continue readingBounty Killer is a film based on a graphic novel, and this comes across nicely in the design of sets and construction of scenes. As the world went to hell in a handcart, all the …
Continue readingRush centres around the 1976 Grand Prix Formula 1 season, specifically the August 1st race at the Nürburg-Ring, the most dangerous track in the racing calendar, which is referred to as “The Graveyard”. The film …
Continue readingYou’re Next begins with a young couple having sex… well, she’s young, while he’s old enough to be her father. After a deeply unfulfilling time for her, he goes off for a shower while she …
Continue readingBorgen Season 3 begins two-and-a-half years after the end of season 2 and we learn that Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) has withdrawn from her political career and sports a new British boyfriend, Jeremy (Alastair …
Continue readingA new year brings a look back at the previous year’s releases and everything I watched at the cinema or on Blu-ray at home, in The Best & Worst of 2013 in movies & games! …
Continue readingThe World’s End saw something that rang true about Simon Pegg‘s character, Gary King, in the last of The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school …
Continue readingThe Long Goodbye stars Elliott Gould (below) in his first and only film role as Detective Phillip Marlowe. He’s hard-drinking, hard-smoking and hard-womanising, and he’s the coolest mo-fo around. In fact, I think the only …
Continue readingThree Colours Red is the third and final part of the Three Colours Trilogy, the film series from director Krzysztof Kieslowski which is themed, retrospectively, on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. …
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