Posted on May 26, 2009 by Darren
Our recording of the 24 season finale failed last night. We’re hoping that Sky will put the two-hour episode up on Anytime, like they did with Lost. It’s not all bad though, figuring we’d prepared the snacks and beverages, we decided to see what was on to watch. We settled on The Mist, a small-scale horror movie based on the Stepehn King novella. Our random selection of films from Anytime has never been particularly lucky, so were we impressed with our choice of horror film?
We had a picture to go with the film, but it was just too intense...
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Filed under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: frank darabont, horror, non-review review, review, stephen king, the mist, the shawshank redemption | 9 Comments »
Posted on May 25, 2009 by Darren
On seeing the new Star Trek, I decided to dig into my old DVD’s and review my personal favourite of the Original Series movies. The cliched choice is The Wrath of Khan, and it is indeed awesome, but I’ve always had a soft spot for The Undiscovered Country, despite its abuse of Shakespeare. So, having just witnessed Kirk and Spock’s first voyage, what did I make of their last?
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Posted on May 25, 2009 by Darren
It was Jack Nicholson himself who reportedly recognised Jim Carrey as the Jack Nicholson of his generation. That’s high praise indeed, particularly when you consider the size of Nicholson’s ego. It’s true that Carrey is a very talented actor – his slapstick ability is unmatched in the modern day and age, and he seems able to invest a huge amount of humanity in his dramatic characters. Still, despite my faith in his dramatic abilities, I’m not sold on the Jack Nicholson comparison. Partially because Carrey looks far less scary than Nicholson does (Stephen King famously denounced The Shining because he felt that the audience never doubted Nicholson would go axe-crazy), but also because despite Nicholson’s prolific Oscar track record, Carrey has yet to secure even a nomination. Maybe I Love You Phillip Morris will be that film.
Carrey is very good at doing fake smiles...
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Filed under: Movies | Tagged: cannes, eddie murphy, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, ewan mcgregor, i love you phillip morris, jack nicholson, jim carrey, kate winslet, Oscars, truman show | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 24, 2009 by Darren
Never afraid to jump on the bandwagon, we were so impressed by the movie that we’ve seen, we thought we’d write a list of the aliens and creatures that we want or don’t want to see in the proposed sequel. Part of me really hopes that JJ Abrams continues to breath originality back into the series, but there are also a lot of very cool aliens out there in the big Star trek universe. Here are a few of the many, many characters and species we can see being considered for an appearance.
Balok was shocked he didn’t make the list…
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Posted on May 23, 2009 by Darren
You can’t make this stuff up.
Another one of those movies we hadn’t heard about until Dad brought them home from the videostore, but this time in a good way. A look at the hunt for war criminals in the aftermath of the Serbian war, it’s glib and well-acted, if a little illogical and preachy in parts. As far as war-reporter films go, this one is solidly in the middle of the pile, but there are worse places to be.
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Posted on May 23, 2009 by Darren
I saw Star Trek last night and was quite impressed – it is one of the best movies in the franchise (albeit not the best). It riproared effectively and gave us a brilliant look at the Kirk/Spock relationship, which is one of the oddities of the show – how such an impulsive, womanising and irrational man would develop a lifelong friendship with such a stoic and logic individual was always a slight mystery to Star trek fans. Still, there is a world of difference between the television shows and the movies, and I wonder if we’ll ever see another Star Trek show back on the airwaves?
The original original crew...
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Posted on May 22, 2009 by Darren
I finally caved. I went to see Star Trek and I dragged my girlfriend along for the ride. I was cautious, hearing two separate opinions about the film: the mainstream media’s orgasmic delight at being offered a premium piece of geekdom for their visual pleasure and my work colleagues’ enjoyment of the film, but lament that ‘it just wasn’t Star Trek’. Who was right? Well, they both were.
Like the Enterprise itself, the new Star Trek is a carefully constructed engine that takes a while to build up momentum, but has a phenomenal top speed
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Filed under: Non-Review Reviews | Tagged: dark knight, eric bana, first contact, iron man, james t. kirk, jj abrams, non-review review, review, spock, star trek, star trek franchise, the wrath of khan, uhuru | 14 Comments »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Darren
I’m going to be honest – I’m not a fan of Without a Trace. I’ll confess to something resembling indifferent affection to Anthony LaPlagia, but I’ve never sat down and watched an episode. I do know lots of people who watch it regularly. Hell, based on the viewing figures, there are a lot of people who watch it regularly. So, as someone who never watched the show, I am still gravely worried by what I see: the recession is affecting networks so badly that they are being forced to cancel expensive high-budget dramas.
I wonder if the network cancelled it simply because of the amount of puns that journalists could make about a show called Without a Trace going missing...
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Posted on May 22, 2009 by Darren
Well, it’s almost over. The Cannes film festival – generally praised as the height of sophisticated cinema – will wrap up on Sunday evening. I may have been a bit negative in my coverage of Cannes this year – with jabs at Lars von Trier and Quentin Tarantino who were screening at the festival – but I’m absolutely delighted with how the festival seems to have gone, and with the weather the way it is over here, I figured it was time to run some good news.
Things I like about Cannes #1: I like that it's always sunny in Cannes...
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Posted on May 21, 2009 by Darren
Okay, I get it. We’re sick. We need help. We’re a culture obsessed with violence and pain and suffering. I miss the days when the gory slasher (or torture porn or gorn, depending on your preference) was solely the affairs of one-week-wonders produced on shoestrings and making a bit of money for studios to pump into other projects. However, with the autuer circuit’s growing fascination with paracinema (making the low brow high brow), it seems that these disturbing little films have become an arthouse favourite. Lars Von Trier’s effort at Cannes with Antichrist seems to have shown that critics are growing tired of it, but what on earth convinced artsy directors that this was a good genre to tackle?
This is another sort of gorn. It is also the only worksafe image we have on the topic.
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