Darkness Falls

Caught this via Sky Movies – missed it at the cinema. This is a neat horror movie that has the Tooth Fairy as a kickass nasty piece of work who hunts down people who peaked at her during her collection of their final baby tooth. It’s far better than it sounds and it turns out […]

Garden State

Cool movie with a really good pace to it. Does the whole “what’s life about / getting your head straight” thing better than anything recently and with some well composed quirky scenes. I really enjoyed it – it’s an amazing debut from Zach Braff who wrote and directed. Also has a mucho cool soundtrack too. […]

Tromeo and Juliet

I got this DVD at the ‘Make Your Own Damn Movie’ Masterclass in London with Lloyd Kaufmann. It’s a modern, punk adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic but with body piercing, chessy gore, over the top acting and Lemmy from Motorhead narrating. If you’ve not seen a Troma movie then beware – If you have then this […]

The Murder Room

Two part BBC drama based on a PD James book – caught them both in a 3 hour sitting. Not bad – although we did guess the whodunnit! BBC TV Colour ***

Terror of Mechagodzilla

Yeah. Toho Movies rule! This is one that has the spacemen from the third planet constructing a mechagodzilla to destroy Tokyo so that they can rebuild it as they want. Also includes a mad Dr who can control another monster called Titanosaurus, but fear not as good old Godzilla appears and beats them both up […]

Outfoxed

Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism. Had this documentary kicking around on DVD for a month or two, what a scary film. Compiled from various footage recorded from the Fox News Network over a few months and shows how they have pretty much eradicated journalism from their output. Some amusing examples as well as some of […]

Frenzy

Spotted this Alfred Hitchcock thriller on Sky Cinema so had to view. John and I enjoyed it – great little thriller but what an amazing example of how times have changed. Some of the early 1970’s attitudes are quite amusing, pretty un-pc and all that. Still has some amazing camera technique as well. Sky Movies […]

Ring

So, nice Sunday afternoon fair if ever there was some. Hideo Nakata’s Ring – the original rather than the Hollywood remake (which wasn’t as bad as it should have been). Cool movie, I’ve watched shelves full of Asian horror films over the last couple of years and along with The Grudge and The Eye this […]