The Aliens Rap

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Following up on the epic 10 minute rap summary of Robocop, the same team has released Aliens: open at youtube.com Watching this reminds me what a great film Aliens turned out to be and how Avatar (by the same director) pales in comparison. It's not that Avatar was terrible but nobody ...

Film Review : Avatar

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

James Cameron has always been an interesting film maker. Although on one level most of his films could be classified as pulpy genre-related fare, they usually have a more interesting subtext lurking below the explosions. Previous Cameron films have investigated such themes as mother/daughter relationships, humanity's fear of the unknown, ...

The Phantom Menace Was Not a Very Good Movie

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

I own all of the Star Wars DVDs except for one - The Phantom Menace. Even the weakest of the others have a certain charm, but TPM was stupid through and through. Even the title is stupid! I have yet to work out exactly what the titular menace actually was. ...

Film Review : Paper Solder (Bumazhnyy Soldat)

Monday, July 27th, 2009

The New Zealand Film Festival is on at the moment, giving us all the chance to see exciting, stimulating cinema from around the world; and also this film. Paper Solder is a Russian production set in the weeks before the launch of Yuri Gagarin's famous day trip. The story focuses on ...

Fatso

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I just joined Fatso - it seems like an OK deal if you like to watch DVDs. Their library includes a lot of TV shows and old movies, and they have a great feature where they send the DVDs in a TV series in sequence so you never get stuck ...

Film Review : Star Trek

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Once again Hollywood dredges up the corpse of a much-loved TV show to desecrate with a pointless remake that misses the whole point of wha....Hey wait a minute! My brain just typed that automatically. Even now I have trouble gathering my wits to write the truth, so shocking and unbelievable ...

Freaky Friday

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Today has thrown up some examples of what strange, dark times we live in. Firstly the trailer for the live-action version of Where the Wild Things Are is released and turns out not to be a monumental travesty. Then John Banks is quoted in the Herald saying something that I ...

Movie Review : Watchmen

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Watchmen is a difficult movie to categorize. As an adaption of an existing work, it is excellent. The attention to detail is amazing, the cast all fit well with their characters and an impressive amount of the plot is exactly the same. A for effort. As a stand-alone work, Watchmen is ...

Nixon Meets Robocop

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

I mentioned this picture once before, but I thought it deserved another outing. The reasons are clear: It contains Robocop It contain Richard Nixon It contains Richard Nixon meeting Robocop Richard Nixon looks amazingly happy Robocop looks a little perturbed The logo behind them is for The Boy Scouts of AmericaBoys Clubs of America While you are ...

“duumDum duumDum, He’s a Shark”

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Jaws was a pretty cool movie but I think we can all agree that the theme tune really needed lyrics. Luckily one man stepped up to the challenge: The same guy has done a whole bunch more: Batman Superman Back to the Future Indiana Jones James Bond Halloween (particularly good) Related posts:Freaky Friday Today has thrown up some ...