A Day at the Races

More Marx Brothers, this time from 1937. Groucho plays a vet posing as a doctor, along with a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse. Classic set pieces! DVD Region 2 Black & White ***

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry’s third year at Hogwarts leads him into discovering more dark secrets of the past. I like this one best of the Potters to date – much darker with some cool camera angles. Seemed a bizarre choice to give the director gig to Alfonso Cuaron as his previous works didn’t really spell ‘kids movie’ but […]

Blood Work

Clint, yeah! Clint Eastwood plays a retired FBI dude (following a heart attack chasing down a murderer) who’s approached by the sister of the woman who is his heart donor to help in tracking down her killer. Not quite Dirty Harry but still a cool movie – Clint is ace as the older detective who […]

About Schmidt

This film is great – Jack Nicholson plays Warren R Schmidt who retires from the Woodmen of the World Insurance Co. The story follows him as he leaves and the tragedies that follow which lead to him going on a road trip. Sad, funny and with some great cinematography this is a real treasure as […]

Kangaroo Jack

Ben and I watched this again. It’s got some really funny sequences and the CGI is really quite impressive. Follows a couple of losers who on the run from the mob put some cash into a jacket which they end up placing on what they think is a dead kangaroo for some photos (they ran […]

Flying Virus

So, two virus movies in a week. Flying virus aka Killer Buzz in the USA , is about some developers overseas (led by Rutger Hauer) who invent a virus-carrying-killer-bee to help wipe out the local tribes so that they can get the roads built quicker. Really. Of course someone steals a box load and smuggles […]

Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD

Another Troma classic featuring Harry Griswald who is an NYPD cop who gets possessed with the spirit of a great Kabuki master. He’s the chosen one who has to do battle with the evil one etc (as you’d expect!). There’s some great transformation scenes and great laughs – my favourite sequence is probably the big […]

Super Troopers

This follows some Vermont state troopers who play some ace jokes on drivers who are passing through their stretch of highway but eventually have to do some police work. I enjoyed it and it’s really funny in places. The opening gags they play on a car full of stoners are really good. Sky Movies Colour […]