Garfield

Watched this one again with the boys – it’s not that bad, saved by Bill Murray doing the voice for a pretty good cgi Garfield. The perfect main human characters played by Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt seem to be bred for such roles, maybe they keep them in the cupboard somewhere and only […]

White Noise

Interesting film with Michael Keaton playing his usual slightly unhinged bloke role. It’s about EVP (electronic voice phenomenom) where dead people speak to him via the white noise of radios, TV etc. Has a nice feel to it and some good moments but untimately seems a little unsatisfying by the end. I suggest he gets […]

Undead

Cool. This aussie zombie movie was kinda like early Peter Jackson movies, written, directed and paid for by some brothers. They used over 600 litres of fake blood during filming and they rendered most of the special FX shots on their home computers. It was great – mad plot about meteors hitting a small fishing […]

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 […]