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Click on a heading to sort by that. Please note that the very first lot of films added have no optional ratings. A 0/10 in an optional category doesn't necessarily mean a film is no good, just that it didn't feature much of that particular thing. Watch out Barry Norman!
100 Films listed
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| lhrsfrd |
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| 3/4/2005 |
| I Am Legend |
| Streaky |
| 8/10 |
Ah, the run-up to the Oscars. What a delight to have the blessed DVD screeners available for download. Intended for idle members of the academy who can't be bothered to mix with lower classes in something as base and debauched as a Cinema, these perfect quality AVIs make a dishonest man's dream come true. Of course, I do chuckle watching an unfunny rat tell me not to be a knock-off Nigel whilst for the rich and powerful, those pesky piracy laws don't seem to apply. The maxim of "one rule for you, one for me" could not have been better illustrated.
Anyways, my favourite family man actor Willard Smith is back in another remake. This time I Am Legend is the name of the book adapted, rather than The Omega Man it became with Charlton Heston. It's set in a Manhattan where Will is the only inhabitant, and is trying to find a cure for the disease which has wiped everyone out. He's trying to stay sane by talking to his dog like a child; arranging mannequins to have friendly chats with; and sending out calls for survivors to get in touch over the radio.
I'd have been perfectly happy to watch Will go publicly insane through all the loneliness but sadly the film doesn't grant me my boon. You just know that Will isn't really alone, and that there's going to be some unspeakable evil that comes out at night. You're not too surprised to learn that he isn't alone. What is so gratifying, however, is that when the shit goes down, it's genuinely unsettling and watchable. Best of all, the film doesn't go all ball-licky near the end. Much better than 28 Days Later in my opinion. |
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| 10/10 |
| 3/10 |
| AVI |
| 27/12/2007 |
| Resident Evil |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
Decent quality for such an early screener, thought it would be shite, in fact it's tops! Zombie dogs always a winner :-) |
| 6/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD |
| 8/4/2002 |
| Resident Evil 2 |
| Tasty |
| 9/10 |
Guns and zombies,Milla getting em out too - nuff said |
| 7/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 2/10 |
| Cinema |
| 16/10/2004 |
| Shaun Of The Dead |
| Streaky |
| 9/10 |
Not being a zombie fan, I couldn't be arsed with Dawn Of The Dead (remake or original)have never seen Night Of The Living Dead or and only watched Evil Dead 3 when my friend held me down and made me (it was shit). So I went to see this based on the track record of Spaced star Simon Pegg knowing it would have all the cast in some role, and I'm happy to say it's fantastic. Predictably, but none the worse for it, there's guest appearances from cast members of Black Books, League Of Gentleman, The Office and Little Britain, as well as Penelope "we're about to have lunch" Wilton and Bill "Love Is All Around" Nighy as two plug-in gravitas actors. The plot, should it concern you, is about Zombies, and what happens to the survivors as they battle them. Qulle surprise. It's very good indeed, and not the "so bad it's good" or "good despite it being shit in places" type of good; it's all good and funny in the right places, doesn't last too long and contains no fluffy toss. |
| 5/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 8/10 |
| Cinema |
| 10/4/2004 |
| TASTY |
| Trioz fan |
| 8/10 |
This quircky b-grade independent film is a scream. Well Done. Let's see more with a big budget |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 6/10 |
| MINI DV |
| 8/5/2003 |
| The matrix revolutions |
| LD50 |
| 9/10 |
This only got a 9 because... well we've already had two matrices, so we're already kinda expecting some mad shit...
[19:10] i wann go see matrix
[19:10] me too
[19:10] go see it
[19:10] it rocks
[19:11] lots of *RAAAH*
[19:11] and "fuck me"
[19:11] and "ooer"
[19:11] that's my official review |
| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 2/10 |
| Cinema |
| 9/11/2003 |
| The Ring Two |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
As this is a sequel, if you haven't seen the original Ring (US or Japanese) look away now as it will contain spoilers....
Picking up some 2 years after the events of the first film, Rachel (Naomi Watts) and her son Aidan have re-located to backwater USA, hoping the "scary girl with long hair" Sammara is safely esconced in her well and nowhere near their TV. It won't come as a shock to discover Sammara has Rachel & Aidan in her sights, though this time no longer simply confined to the videotape. The problem is that Ring 2 becomes much more a bog-standard horror flick as a result e.g. creepy child and other props. Not bad at all, and jumpy as hell in places, but not a classic. |
| 7/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Cinema |
| 3/4/2005 |
| Underworld |
| TF12 |
| 10/10 |
Fucking genius... Vampyres verses Werewolves in the style of The Matrix with Kate Beckinsale dressed in PVC shooting the shit out of everything that moves! Er, what's not to like?!? Ok, maybe the script but then what do you expect. Oh, and the effects but, you know, maybe I over analysis them anyway. Only way this film could really have been better is if I'd been mashed watching it!
um really? Ok it's shite but go and see it anyway.
Goths rule.
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| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 2/10 |
| Cinema |
| 28/9/2003 |
| Van Helsing |
| TF12 |
| 1/10 |
Don't be lured by the bagsy/undead/explosions rating.... this film is utter tripe, dross and shite. Refer to my Underworld review for how fit Kate Beckinsale is but whatever you don't pay money to see this. Tasty and I got in for free and we still regret it!
I think the episode of Automan I've just downloaded will be about a million times better than this rubbish.
Do want to boff a Vampire though. Bagsy. |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 10/10 |
| Cinema |
| 5/5/2004 |
| Donnie Darko |
| Funky |
| 9/10 |
Now that this has been released on DVD an update is necessary. It was director Richard Kelly's first film. He wrote it as well, and had no money to make it. It cost $4M. The actors didnt get paid any money for shooting, They did the film cause the story was so good. There are 20 extended and deleted scenes on the DVD which explain so much more. As a taster, the pills which Donnie takes are placebos. He isnt mad. He is a superhero tasked by a greater power to repair an alternate reality that has occured by accident. Oh and by the way Frank, the rabbit, is Donnie's sisters boyfriend. Loads of watership down stuff also never made the film. It was never meant to be so complicated , the film was too long so cuts were made. With these scenes included it is much more simplistic and takes on more of a sci-fi feel than supernatural.Ive only touched on the extra plot here. For the full uncut film I propose a selatape special which will have all the deleted scenes stuck firmly back in their rightfull place. Watch this space. An excellent film just got better.
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| 4/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 7/10 |
| Legit purchased DVD |
| 27/5/2003 |
| Planet Terror |
| Streaky |
| 5/10 |
About the nicest thing I can say abour Grindhouse Part II - The Robert Rodriguez effort Planet Terror - is that it isn't as bad as Death Proof. Given such an effort is akin to getting out of bed, a bar so low even Cousin Jiimmy could clear it, my hopes weren't high. As it is, it's a zombie film, no more, no less. Nothing you won't have seen in any of the George Romero's zombie films, it's as if Rodriguez hasn't seen Shaun Of The Dead, or is so wrapped up in his own ability he really thinks he's doing something extraordinary with the material. Tarantino shows up again, unironically as a nasty piece of shit, all creepy and no flair. Am I missing something? Granted, it's slightly better structured and at least qualifies as a film, but for heaven's sake Robert, you should be doing so much better. I know Quentin's your mate and everything, but he's weighing you down. Drop him before he drags you under. |
| 6/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 3/10 |
| AVI |
| 29/1/2008 |
| Two Towers |
| LD50 |
| 9/10 |
Does what it says on the tin...rude film! - I got the impression this is something of a "spacer" between fellowship and return of the king, but i think that's possibly how it is in the books (I only got up to just before helm's deep kicked off in the book). The characters are ace as you'd expect, the CG gollum is superbly done, lots of fire, orcs and general ass kicking on a massive scale. The ents scored the comedy point and also a fair proportion of the ass-kicking points. |
| 9/10 |
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| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 1/10 |
| DivX dvdrip |
| 29/1/2003 |
| Blade Runner |
| nightsex |
| 10/10 |
Pure class man, Harrision kicks butt in the classic scifi film.Great story, good affects, nice music and not a Lara in sight. Smooth.... |
| 10/10 |
| 8/10 |
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| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 2/10 |
| DVD |
| 10/8/2003 |
| Event Horizon |
| PCUK |
| 9/10 |
Myself and my trustworthy Uncle Tasty feel this is one of the best, most underrated pieces of creative art, and influential yet unrecognised films for years. The Main Points are 1. Larry Fishburne is in it. He also leads The Matrix (see below-nice one) and dies spectacularly in Apocalypse Now. Who better?..helped by Sam Neill, Joely Richardson - bagsy (yet another of Vanessa Redgrave's daughters and superb) Sean Pertwee, and surprisingly, a black dude (odds against reaching climax of film pretty high) and more white guys, some of whom die to even up the racial statistics for a change. 2. No films have taken the Alien concept further than Ridley Scott did in Alien in ?1976 - until this. Set off looking for something, don't know what it is, by the time you find out, you realise that your life insurance is utterly inadequate. 3...Zero gravity in realtime effects before The Matrix was even written. 4 Even dead people make an appearance to f you up a bit more...hence undead rating. On top of this, the rules of time and space start to become optional (like being drunk only 8 million miles from your front door) No one knows where you are, yet it's your job to be there rescuing people, AND some bastard has broken into your memory and is replaying events you tried to hide even from yourself.
Chris Eagle famously left after an hour of our first screening at the Cube. Available now from Statto towers, when I find it in a box somewhere. British Film, Brit Director, Brit Actors all over the place. Massive. |
| 8/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 7/10 |
| (Oh! Have we got a...) Video - DVDs can FROff. |
| 9/4/2002 |
| The Matrix Reloaded |
| LD50 |
| 10/10 |
Changes everything. |
| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 5/10 |
| VCD |
| 20/5/2003 |
| Blade 2 |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
Decent-ish quality conisdering it's so new, top film, much better than I thought it would be. |
| 3/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD |
| 8/4/2002 |
| Ghost Town |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
I remember when Ricky Gervais was a walk-on sick material peddler on The Eleven O'Clock Show in the mid 90's. Anyone placing a bet back then that he'd have won multiple awards, two hit comedy series, podcasts, and a leading man role (with a feature length directorial debut later this year) probably isn't reading this, as they're buried under several hundred weight of caviar with Champagne measured by the Olympic swimming
pool. The key is that whatever you think about him he doesn't do rubbish. Even the rubbish he does on podcasts is quality. He and Stephen Merchant make their material for the ages that will stand the test of time. So it is with Ghost Town, a carefully measured Capra-esque ghost story that doesn't go for cheap laughs or jokes about mobiles or the internet. It's a simple story about a misanthrope who re-learns his humanity with the help of the newly dead Greg Kinnear. Crucially, as with the Xmas special of Extras after the Big Brother rant, just when you think the heart strings may be tugged into ball-licking schmaltz, it pulls back and takes a breath. This won't win Oscars but it will stand up for years to come, and may even be shown at Xmas. |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 8/10 |
| AVI |
| 5/1/2009 |
| Meet the Streakys |
| Them |
| 10/10 |
Noit what I was expecting - Barbera Streaky and Bob streaky making an acting comeback but in actual fact it was a real streaky's streaky. The Streakiness of the streakies showed remarkable streakiness by the "are we having fun yet" posse.
timtim. \o/ |
| 2/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 10/10 |
| Live performance |
| 6/5/2005 |
| Watchmen |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
According to lore, the director Terry Gilliam met Northampton's own Alan Moore for a preliminary discussion regarding adapting his sacred comic Watchmen, for the big screen. Asked how he would adapt it, Moore apparently replied, "I wouldn't". What's been termed "the Citizen Kane of comics" by non-comic fans (comic fans call Citizen Kane the "Watchmen" of movies) has been in development through many directors (Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass among others), scriptwriters and producers for well over a decade. Falling into the hands of Zac Snyder; hands that had recently been applying chest oil to the protagonists of 300, fans around the world were thrilled a fellow Watchmaniac was at the helm, yet trepidant he wouldn't have the skill to bring out the comic's stomach churning depth and dizzying multi-layers that so enraptures its readership.
They did have cause to be worried, as Znyder's track record indicates his talent lies in surfaces rather than feeling. However, on the former, the man knows his source material. Sticking to the story outline like a religious zealot, the movie opens with the murder of The Comedian; one of a gang of masked vigilantes, now banned from appearing in public by still-President Nixon. In this alternate 1985, the world is on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and Superheroes are real, though the only one with actual powers is Dr Manhattan; given god-like vision of time and matter after the obligatory lab accident. What Moore achieves in Watchmen is the deconstruction of the Superhero myth; what kind of weird people would wear masks on either side of the criminal divide; what does it mean to have actual god-like powers and how would you deal with the responsibility; how does Rorschach's mask keep changing its imprints. The Watchmen characters each represent a certain political philosophy regarding power. That humans are little more than savage beasts in need of guardianship or that they can be higher beings with due care and attention. Or that power itself is ultimately corrupting and any intervention is morally impermissible, or again that it is morally necessary.
You have to look rather hard to find that in Watchmen the movie, however. You get the beautiful surface detail; you get gorgeous compositions, lighting, colouring and love of the story. What you don't get, as we highlighted, is the depth. So when the scene calls for the emotion, you don't feel it. Without emotional depth you're left with pornography. Literal pornography in places, as well as the pornography of violence and special effects. Without satisfying nourishment the near three hour running time tests your patience, though you can’t get too mad at Znyder. He’s desperately aiming for Kane, pushing himself to his film-making limits and giving it everything; sadly he just doesn’t have it in his toolbox to give Watchmen the crucial grounding. Unfilmable? Better directors than him tried and walked away, so big credit for getting the damn thing made in the first place. |
| 9/10 |
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| 6/10 |
| Cinema |
| 12/3/2009 |
| Touching the Void |
| Tomboy |
| 8/10 |
Well not exactly high on bagsies, zombies or anything else really but when you realise this is a true story - welllllllll...!!! Two climbers decide to climb a remote peek in Peru which all goes swimingly until a horible fuck up causes one of them to break his leg. Technically very good (trust me) but a real story of true grit and balls the size of melons.... |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
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| 0/10 |
| DivX |
| 12/5/2004 |
| 8 Legged freaks... |
| LD50 |
| 3/10 |
This film is so shit it actually starts getting funny again. From the same school of directing & plot-writing as Anaconda, Arachnophobia and all those other D-movies, but this has some tongue in cheek elements which means it's not a total writeoff. If you've had a few drinks and there's nothing on TV it might be worth a watch, otherwise probably not... |
| 3/10 |
| 3/10 |
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| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 4/10 |
| DIVX (dvdrip) |
| 29/10/2002 |
| Reign of Fire |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
Well, dragons have taken over the world and it's down to some scots and looney yanks to save us etc.. somewhat predictable but still worth a download, simply for big creatures flying round blowing fire out of their nostrils.
The screener off SR seems to be NTSC framerate or else someone's just buggered he settings, so you'll need to watch it on a computer rather than VCD player (i tried a napa VCD), loads better than I am Sam (re-released as "I am bored" |
| 1/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD screener |
| 26/8/2002 |
| The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button |
| Streaky |
| 4/10 |
It's hard to know what is the most staggering part of Benjamin Button. Is it the CGI, the way Brad Pitt's face is digitally imposed over an stand-in? The way a child born as an old man who lives through the 20th century in reverse? Or, as I can't be bothered to pose any more rhetorical questions, simply that this is possibly the dullest film I ever saw in my near 33 years on this earth. A three hour exercise in an utter tedious non-event. You'd think that with such a premise, albeit a rather thin F Scott Fitzgerald short story, it would take considerable effort from one of my favourite director's David Fincher to make such a simplistic, snooze-athon. For a man with such an unique outlook on life, he doesn't have much more to say than "you never know what might happen you"; Jesus I could have told you that, and I wouldn't have taken three hours. Benjamin also doesn't do much in his life; he gets on and off a boat, checks in from time to time to see if Cate Blanchett is close enough in age to bang yet, and if not then he's back on the boat. Yes, yes, I hear you, it's a comment on the fleeting nature of love. I get it, as does Woody Allen who has made a movie a year saying just that with half the running tme and 10% of the budget. I was worried about the film going in, as it was written by Eric "Gump" Roth, but I'm relieved that the worst thing about the film is that it simply pretends racism never existed as Benjamin's parents are New Orleans African Americans in a 1920s far far divorced from reality. It's not racist, it's just boring. |
| 7/10 |
| 5/10 |
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| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 3/10 |
| AVI |
| 9/2/2009 |
| The Eye |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
Godo film this one - it's very japanese in every respect but is a very cool concept nicely done. Lulls you into a false sense of security and then goes off on a dark one.. :-) |
| 1/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DVD from uncle taste |
| 1/4/2003 |
| The Ring (Yank version not the org Jap one) |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
This is not, as the title may suggest, some gay porno filched from statto's house, but a remake of some japanese film from a while ago. I'd heard mixed hype about this so wasn't quite sure what to expect. It does start off in a very "I know what you did last summer" teen movie kinda way which does tend to make you want to lean for the remote, but before you get there it sorts itself out and starts gettign creepy. I think if you lied Blair Witch you'll like this - a fairly novel idea but of limited depth, yet nicely executed. IMOH the majority of the effectiveness of the creepy bits comes from the actual way it's filmed rather than the scenes themselves (if that makes sense..) - he camera work is nice - not salton sea val-kilmer-playing-the-trumpet-in-a-burning-room nice, more in the come-to-daddy direction but not quite as f**ked up as that. I liked it but can see how some people might disike it...unlike this review which seems to have just got more and more vague to the point where probably nobody can really comment on it. |
| 5/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD from the bedford Massive |
| 28/2/2003 |
| Kill Streaky Vol. 2 |
| Me |
| 5/10 |
Overrated, overblown, paper-thin bollocks pieced together by a director running desperately low on new ideas he's recycling old ones, where the illustrious Streaky of aforementioned title is killed, whereupon the film ends. |
| 4/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 3/10 |
| In My Mind |
| 6/5/2005 |
| CHARLIES ANGELS |
| AMANDA |
| 3/10 |
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| 3/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 3/10 |
| SEENS |
| 10/4/2005 |
| Streaky boils vietnamese balls |
| Me |
| 10/10 |
This is a short epic in which a normally relatively quiet chap from the UK gets upset by some vietnamese hoteliers/restauranteurs. His tale of vengeance begins when they start posting on his film review board and sees him travel to the orient on a quest which will lead him to a boil the balls of said gits.
An absolute classic from the director who brought you "Passworded websites" |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 9/10 |
| Real life footage |
| 1/5/2005 |
| Dial S for Streaky |
| You |
| 5/10 |
Another tense thriller from Mr Playmountain - what more can I say - you couldn't make this shit up! |
| 5/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 1/10 |
| BDC |
| 5/5/2005 |
| Dog Soldiers |
| LD50 |
| 1/10 |
Hmm i should have known better when Bensaan said this was a good film..oh well. Sean Peewee (pertwee) flogging his dead horse of an accent for yet another few quid, some dudes in werewolf masks and the obligatory but not very convincing silent black-ops type and random bird in landrover.
That's about the size of it. Oh and of course everyone's in in the government's plot in a fairly obvious fashion. Go to the cinema and watch Two Towers instead of wasting yer money/bandwidth/blank CDs on this tosh. |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Divx (dvd rip) |
| 29/12/2002 |
| Drawn Together |
| Badger |
| 8/10 |
Sick and twisted, very funny indeed! well worth a watch. |
| 5/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 8/10 |
| TV |
| 19/4/2006 |
| 21 Grams |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
That's a slightly messy one. Somewhat magnolia-meets-memento with a hangover.
Not for the haint-farted. |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Divx |
| 22/3/2004 |
| Donnie Darko |
| LD50 |
| 9/10 |
Greg's right - this is another masterpiece from Mr Lynch. I reckon it's slightly more followable than Mullholland Dr. but all the better for it. Watch it today. [..erm slight correction there - it's not David lynch directing it at all - it's some other bloke (thought it made a bit much sense). Hats off to a good job.] |
| 4/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 1/10 |
| Divx DVDrip |
| 29/11/2002 |
| Jeepers Creepers |
| LD50 |
| 0/10 |
Utter shit. Mission-impossible-2-scale continuity errors and just fundamentally bollox. Even the xbox had had enough halfway thru and binned it - good call :-) |
| 5/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DivX (dvdrip) |
| 19/12/2002 |
| Requiem For a Dream |
| LD50 |
| 9/10 |
This is one *fucked up* film. Very nicely shot, great characters, *twisted* storyline, faaar too many drugs in play. Highly recommended but not for the faint-hearted. |
| 6/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Divx |
| 14/6/2004 |
| scary movie 3 |
| Gabriele |
| 1/10 |
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| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| divx |
| 1/1/2004 |
| spartacus |
| christ |
| 10/10 |
ist going goodd |
| 1/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 10/10 |
| film |
| 5/3/2005 |
| The time machine |
| LD50 |
| 1/10 |
Only the yanks could crucify a reasonable story in this way. Take all the crappy ewok bits from Jedi, the cheesiest moments from total recall, add bloke from neighbours and train the lot with the neighbours acting coach and you're about there. All that's missing is jar jar bloody binks.
Pile Of Shite |
| 3/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DVDivx |
| 9/8/2002 |
| 21 Grams |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Not a film to watch while baked, flimflammed or under the influence of stupendous batterage. Flash-forwards, non-linear story of a car accident involving Benicio "fucked up butcher" Del Toro who kills Naomi Watts husband, whose heart transplanted then saves Sean "Mr Ex-Madonna" Penn from an early grave. These three thrown together have to deal with grief, revenge and family strife. Shot in a grainy, invasive style, it's very slow to get going, and always unsettling as key parts of the film are revealed prior to the normal timeline, so you have a hard time figuring out what's going on. As with most of my reviews, the film is not for everyone, and not for someone on a downer, but good stuff none the less. |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Cinema |
| 5/3/2004 |
| 30 Meters of Silence |
| Ashli Haward |
| 8/10 |
A Great story of 7 refugees kids |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Doc |
| 13/7/2003 |
| 40 days & 40 nights |
| Cockney Badger |
| 7/10 |
Funny film! snorted. I really expected a 3rd emigration american-pie-a-like and whilst the main 'orse's rear is pretty much of that risin' damp it they make full barrel o' moose of the idea. That bagsyometer's blowin' like a booker's nipple on a windy day too. Good 'arry |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| sVCD |
| 14/9/2002 |
| 9th Gate |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
My viewing was slightly tarnished by having to wait 2 months between disk 1 and 2, but finally i got to see the end. Johnny Depp playing a somewhat dubious antique/book blokey and lots of devil-based shenannigans. Gets really nice and bizzarre in places, nice camera work too - I'd watch it again definitely. |
| 6/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD (2 discs - finally!) |
| 11/4/2002 |
| A Beautiful mind |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
This is a great quality rip of a great film. Apparently based on a true story it centres around a genius but very spoddy mathemetician, unifying theories, onset of schitzophrenia etc etc - top stuff :) If you liked Pi you'll like this.
If you never saw Pi go see it now, or don't - I'm not too fussed 'cos I seen them both anyway :) |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DIVX/dvdrip (2 disc) |
| 12/4/2002 |
| a beautiful mind |
| henry |
| 9/10 |
no |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 9/10 |
| divX |
| 19/1/2003 |
| A Cock & Bull story |
| Streaky |
| 8/10 |
A film within a film, with a film. It's at least that many. Supposedly a film adaptation of the supposedly unfilmable "Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy", it in fact is half (or maybe a third) of that film, and then there's another film shot at the same time about the making of the film. Confused? Yeah, I was as well. It stars Steve "aha" Coogan playing himself trying to shake off the Partridge tag, Rob Brydon as his sidekick angling for co-star credit. So it's a film, about people trying to make a film, and the film they're trying to make. Then there's sub-plots of Coogan's affairs, his new-born son and girlfriend, Brydon's flummoxing over his potential co-star Gillian Anderson, Mark "you ain't seem me, right?" Williams as a 17th century re-enactment buff, and lots more besides. It had every chance of being the worst in-joke back-slapping wank-athon, but it isn't. I don't think it's brilliant either, but certainly original. |
| 5/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 8/10 |
| Cinema |
| 4/2/2006 |
| A History Of Violence |
| Streaky |
| 8/10 |
Nearly a fortnight after seeing this film, I still don't know what to think or to say about David Cronenberg's latest, much less what, or whether I'd recommend to someone else. I won't tell you much of the plot, only that owner of a diner Viggo "Aragorn" Mortensen becomes a local hero stopping 2 nutters with guns, who attracts the attention of mob boss Ed "shit loads of films" Harris, where upon the film gets a bit weird. Or dull. Or predictable, or totally unpredictable depending on what mood you're in when you watch it. I can eaisily see someone hating this, or thinking it's the best film of the year, or maybe you'll think it's alright with some good bits. I still don't know what to think |
| 6/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 4/10 |
| Cinema |
| 19/10/2005 |
| A knight's tale |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
I didn't really know anything about this but it's actually a kinda cool story about a 3 peasants who make it big in the Jousting circuit and all the associated shenannigans which ensue. Genuine feelgood factor in play and all round good clean fun. I really liked it. |
| 4/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 4/10 |
| Divx (approx vcd size but nicely watchable) |
| 3/5/2002 |
| A Mighty Wind |
| Streaky |
| 6/10 |
Finishing my Christopher Guest season, then. This time he "does" folk music, with the usual Balaban/O'Hara/Levy/Mckean/Shearer/Posey/etc. crew, about a tribute concert celebrating the life of a departed folk legend, and the reforming of long-dead bands for this one-off special. Personally, I preferred 'Consideration and the actors in-jokes to this, but once again the re-watch value will make a liar out of me I'm sure. |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 9/10 |
| AVI |
| 15/4/2007 |
| A Scanner Darkly |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Bagsy for the scrumptious Winona Ryder, natch. Contrary to universal logic, Keanu Reeves' career keeps going. Without discernible talent whatsoever besides looking and sounding bewildered and slow, he still attracts interesting roles. The latest Philip K Dick adapatation has him working undercover in the near-future to gather information on the source of "Substance D"; a highly addictive hallucinogenic drug that has made 20% of the population its slave. Unlike many other adaptations, the film is less about dystopian futures and more about the inner ramblings and paranoia of people with serious drug habits. Former inhabitants of Purser & Adnit Road may get a clue here, especially in an argument about the counting of gears on a bike. I dozed off about half an hour in, not because of the film but because it was that Sunday night crash, so it meant I had to watch it again right after. Good job too, as it gets seriously weird; because undercover agents have to keep their identity secret, they wear a shape-shifting suit to work to so one knows who they are, yet the Substance D affects your perception of people, shapes, even reality itself. When Reeves is sent to investigate himself, and isn't sure it's even him, well, you get the picture. Definitely one to watch while f**ked. |
| 10/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 5/10 |
| AVI |
| 16/4/2007 |
| A Waking life |
| Tasty |
| 6/10 |
Very original cartoon film that looks realish v odd Artsy film - interesting ! |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DIVX |
| 21/8/2002 |
| About a boy |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
Amusing film! Kinda wholesome but good nonetheless. Suitable amount of dissing of vegetarian hippie types. |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| VCD cam - reasonable quality |
| 11/5/2002 |
| ACIDGFX - Hyper³ |
| Streaky |
| 10/10 |
A most unusual film this one. The narrative is most definitely non-linear, heavy use of CGI with a very upbeat soundtrack. It seems the filmmakers have left the work ambiguous and open to interpretation so this is purely my take on it. Best I can tell is that it's an historical allegorical fable about ancient britain tribal culture updated for the modern era; expressed in the form of swirling images. They dance, move and morph (representing the shifting tides of territorial gains and losses, obviously) while uptempo shindigs in bon-temporary noise-itude, skiffle along by way of accompaniment. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this of course, or perhaps not enough. Either way, it's an encouragingly debut from a production house I swear I've heard of somewhere before. |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DVD |
| 25/8/2005 |
| Adaptation |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
When i skipped through this to check the files it didn't exactly look thrilling... however it's all in the watching and it came up trumps. Lots of confusion between the multiple Nick cages etc, but all held together by a really twistey, turney yet introspective plot. And then it goes oink...and you're elsewhere completely. |
| 4/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD |
| 7/3/2003 |
| Ali G - Bling Bling! |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
Same old same old, but still amusing. Includes interview with the Beckhams & much Borat mayhem :) |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 5/10 |
| DIVX/dvdrip |
| 8/4/2002 |
| Ali G - In da house |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
I kinda expected this to be shite but in fact it was most amusing :-) Selecta! |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| DIVX/dvdrip |
| 8/4/2002 |
| All about the benjamins |
| LD50 |
| 6/10 |
Lots of "ma nigga" speak - I would expect nothing less from Mr Cube and friends. Decent film, not gonn abreak any boundaries, but nice easy viewing. Guns, boats, diamonds, villains, bounty hunters and a fair amount of people beating the shit out of each other... can't go far wrong can you? |
| 0/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 1/10 |
| VCD |
| 3/5/2002 |
| American Gangster |
| Streaky |
| 6/10 |
Long time fans of Streaky's 303 film love may have detected a certain ambivalence toward Ridley Scott films. He, like Sergio Leone, has been criticised by some as a director of surfaces; looks pretty, but nothing there. It's been my problem with Scott in almost every film of his I've seen, and yes that includes Bladerunner (Yah, yah, future dystopia, I just don't care about anyone in it). So it is with his much heralded return to form, American Gangster. It has the required acting leads in Denzel & Russell Crowe; all the scene setting and pacing you'd expect from an experienced film maker, but it's a genre picture. It's a drug dealer who rises to power, and an ambitious cop who brings him down at the cost of his personal life. It's aware of the archetypes wheeled out for the 100th time (beautiful moll, religious mother, dirty cops, ex-wife from hell) so it goes through the motions all very skilfully enough. I just don't care about anyone in it. I know where the story goes. What's the point? |
| 4/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| Creamy DVD Screener |
| 6/1/2008 |
| American History X |
| Streaky |
| 9/10 |
A bit of an Oioi if you haven't seen it for a kick arse, righteous and blood lusty film that (bonus) makes you think about your predjudices. Starring Edward "Fight Club" Norton, Edward "OK, timeout stop the bike" Norton from T2 and Captain "Avery Brooks" Sisko from DS9. The story of a reformed neo-nazi released from jail determined to stop his younger brother going down the same road set against a racially inflamed school. What makes the film stand apart is that the neo nazis are not one dimensional cardboard cutouts but real people with real grievances seeking justice in an unfair world. Great and intense scenes, real ultra violence smoothly directed and interspersed with B/W flashbacks. It's careful to show the consequences of violence and the alternatives to one's actions. Informative without being preachy. It really is the shit. |
| 1/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 3/10 |
| dvd |
| 6/5/2003 |
| Amores Perros (Love's a bitch) |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
Spanish film with subtitles, but very much in a pulp-fiction meets magnolia-type series of interwoven ironic coincidences and knock on effects. Also slightly remeniscent of "Go" (i think - the clubbing one with the yellow mx5 in it?) and Run Lola Run in it's showing-the-same-thing-from-different-angles kinda way, but not as predictable in it's execution. It's not a short film by any stretch, but um dunno really - just have to watch it i guess. |
| 3/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Divx (dvdrip) |
| 22/4/2002 |
| Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy |
| Streaky |
| 6/10 |
Got around to watching this the other day, pushing down my film pile to about 30, then went and downloaded another 5 so I'm back where I started. Anyways, worth a watch, in spite of my sneery snob-like "down my nose looking" at Will Ferrell and his ilk. Unfortunately, Ben Stiller is in it. But so is Steve Carrell as a mentally challenged weatherman, who walks away with the film in his pocket. |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 9/10 |
| AVI |
| 24/12/2006 |
| Angel Eyes |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
Strangely good film - I knew nothign about this before i watched it and that's probably the best way to see it - IMHO there's definite elements of Magnolia in there, from the story to the style of music, although not quite as totally wierd as Magnolia. Worth a watch, Bensaan will hate it. |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Divx (single disk) |
| 13/4/2002 |
| Angels & Demons |
| Streaky |
| 5/10 |
My soon-to-be-wife and I both have a healthy competitive streak when it comes to, well, anything really. When we saw the pictures of our honeymoon villa, both of us thought "When people see these photos they're going to vomit pure envy, we're gonna win the Honeymoon, yes!!!". I didn't make that up. So when it came to going to the movies, I picked the new Star Trek to go head-to-head with The Da Vinci Code sequel/prequel. Who won the movie battle royale? Well, not to give anything away, but I did! Yes! My opponent said it wasn't fair and that I had an advantage given I read reviews from multiple sources and was able to make an informed pick. Competitive to the end, I love her.
You've probably guessed already that either I'm very bored and filling space with thoughts, or the film isn't up to much. Correct on both.
Following the death of the Pope in the Vatican, four cardinals are kidnapped by the Illuminati - a science loving sect persecuted centuries earlier - and are to be executed every hour, on the hour, before Vatican City itself is destroyed by some anti-matter that was stolen from the Hadron Collider in Switzerland (no, really). Tom Hanks' Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon has to decode a number of Illuminati clues deliberately left behind to find the Cardinals and the bomb before the midnight deadline.
You know, writing that little paragraph makes the film sound even stupider than it is to watch. As it's director Ron Howard, he knows how to point a camera and frame a scene as well as recruiting some good actors, so although it's complete tosh it's a fairly harmless watch for about 2/3 of the movie. Oh and if you've been to Rome, you will point at the screen and say "we've been there".
There's nothing inherently wrong with a stupid movie where a guy solves cryptic clues (with a disturbingly high accuracy) and rushes around churches looking at statues, in fact I'd much prefer that to stupid movies involving transforming robots or street-racing cars. But in the final third, what was left of a hokey yet pacey movie falls off its modest perch into laughable imbecilitiy. Ewan Mcgregor, one of the greatest actors from the British Isles has a stab at a Northern Irish accent, though why a priest raised in The Vatican would talk in such a way baffles. Tom Hanks at least has his hair cut, and it wasn't as bad as The Da Vinci Code, but otherwise it's a pretty rum lot. |
| 5/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 5/10 |
| Cinema |
| 27/5/2009 |
| Anger Management |
| LD50 |
| 0/10 |
Every bit as shit as it looks...
Jack, how the mighty have fallen. |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| SVCD |
| 5/8/2003 |
| Antoine fischer |
| LD50 |
| 0/10 |
Sometimes the ratings somehow don't capture every facet of what makes a film particularly good or bad, but in this case they are wholly accurate. Maybe I'm missing something vital here but from what i can tell FUCK ALL happens throughout the entirety of the film. It took me 5 mins to notice that disk one had finished and I could think of no reason to continue with disk 2. Clearly Mr Denzil Wigwam is trying to prove something by embarking on these endless voyages of self boredom (See review of "John Q" for more details) but it's wasted on me. God, why do they bother?? |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD 2 disk |
| 24/2/2003 |
| Apocalypse Now Redux |
| Tomboy |
| 10/10 |
Apart from the fact that this is a 4 CD DivX, no complaints. Superb rip from master DVD includes all the original intended footage, this is possibly still one of the best films ever made. Classic lines '..cos Charlie don't surf' and others. Suggest making sure you have no plans for at least 4 hours cos this is a long one. |
| 5/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 2/10 |
| DivX |
| 20/3/2003 |
| Apocalypto |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Mel "sugar jews" Gibson is a flighty little rapscallion isn't he. When he's not getting drunk and making somewhat controversial statements to female police officers, he's pursuing some very personal projects. Following the Jesus one is this Mayan chase movie, set during the pre-Conquistador period. The controversy (oh Mel, no rom-coms for you) hinges on whether the Mayan empire was on its way out before the Spaniards arrived, or whether Whitey put their technoloigcally superior boot in to loveable scamps in loincloth to nick their continent. There's certainly a case to be made either way, but to go entirely on one side does leave a bad taste. Then again, and I'll take Mel's word for it, he's done his homework. Using Mayan dialogue, and casting the film with unknowns, it has the look and feel of being right there, even if the comparisons to modern day America with "they're just like us" feels slightly forced. Beneath it all, however, it's essentially a chase movie, as a Mayan warrior tries to escape from the captors who destroyed his village; avoid being a human sacrifice, and get back to his pregnant wife before it's too late. How many other films feature a Mayan cast, I ask you? |
| 6/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 4/10 |
| AVI |
| 9/6/2008 |
| Atonement |
| Streaky |
| 8/10 |
Unfilmable book adaptations are very in at the moment. Ian Mcewan's Atonement is another that was said to be impossible to bring to the screen, but Joe Wright just wouldn't listen. It's set just before WWII on a hot summer's day in the country house of the Tallis family. The youngest girl Briony, watches her elder sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off and dive into a fountain seemingly at the instruction of Robbie Turner (James Mcavoy) the lad who works for the family. As a result of Briony's misunderstanding due to her young age and gift for dramatic invention a chain of events is started that will change the family forever. Probably not everyone's cup of tea on 303, but as a big fan of the book I was hoping they wouldn't mess with it and I'm glad to say they haven't. James Mcavoy is surely the best actors from these shores at the moment, and while lots of people think Keira Knightley is a pretty clothes horse, I think she's excellent in this. It's a film that contains very powerful themes of redemption, regret, and yes, atonement, across a lifetime. One to broaden the mind. |
| 10/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| AVI |
| 27/12/2007 |
| Bad Education |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Streaky here again, reviewing my kind of films. That's right, child abuse, blackmail and murder; with lashings of buggery.
A Spanish-made film with subtitles, it tells of 2 adults who following a childhood trauma (see if you can guess which kind of trauma) meet up when a script falls into the hands of one from the other. It isn't that straightforward, however. Are the people we see all they seem to be? Are their personal accounts accurate, or in some way biased? Directed by Pedro Almovodar (Open Your Eyes, the Spanish original of Vanilla Sky) this is well-made, acted and original. |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Bad Education |
| 13/6/2004 |
| Batmin Begins |
| Streaky |
| 8/10 |
Daddy's boy Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) wants to use his fabulous wealth to help people, just like his father did. Good for him. He's so much better than us lowly scum isn't he? Because he's suffered (dead dad) and he cares you see, we're supposed to sympathise with a grown man who has Michael "Zulus" Caine as his lifelong fawning serf.
Once again playing to the University Challenge, Elitist, Ivory Towers dichotomy that ordinary people are too stupid, pathetic and boring to do anything for themselves, we have yet another superhero flick to rescuing us from the depths of our uselessness. It's actually the best there's ever been, having been made by Christopher "Memento" Nolan, supported by Gary "mickey mouse bullshit" Oldham, Morgan "rehabilitated, it's just a bullshit word" Freeman, Rutger "Guinness" Hauer, and Liam "I could have done more" Neeson. As well as yer standard whizz bangs there's a proper story, character development and motivation for why Bruce does what he does with some rather non-blockbuster adult themes (the nature of criminality and futility of revenge) but again it's rather cynically setup for a sequel a la Daredevil and that fucking Spider one. Still, as I say, it's better than any other superhero movie. I just hate superheroes as a rule, don't know if those feelings seeped through at all. |
| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 5/10 |
| Cinema |
| 19/6/2005 |
| Be Kind Rewind |
| Streaky |
| 6/10 |
What happens when the owner (Danny Glover) of a video rental and thrift store goes away and leaves his inept employees (Mos Def & Jack Black) in charge, leaving Black to accidentally wipe all the videos causing crazy lady Mia Farrow to demand a film by the end of the day? That's right, you guessed it, Jack Black does indeed prance around like a cock as the dynamic duo re-create the missing films themselves. Such cock-prancery does amount to a good half of the film, but writer/direcor Michel "Eternal Sunshine" Gondry manages to rein in the excessive wangmanship, as well as giving the straight man Mos Def some good laughs. |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 7/10 |
| AVI |
| 13/4/2009 |
| Bedazzled |
| Tadd |
| 2/10 |
Utter Shite |
| 9/10 |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Sky (While I can afford it) |
| 8/8/2002 |
| Bee Movie |
| Streaky |
| 6/10 |
Jerry "Seinfeld" Seinfeld hasn't done much since the show about nothing that bears his name finished in 1997. He went back out onto the road to do his stand-up (not bad, not great either) and started a family. Those 2 pre-occupations seem to have melded to make this family friendly animation. The paths of Jerry, and his former partner Larry David seem to have parted along the family lines. David, the force behind the Seinfeld derived Curb Your Enthusiasm, does not have children, and therefore is essentially ploughing on as he did before. As Seinfeld has passed on his genes, we have Bee Movie. A perfectly inoffensive, unremarkable bit of family fluff that passes 90 minutes without either inspiring or revolting. Barry B Benson, an unsurprisingly Jewish Bee complete with nagging parents, escapes the work of the hive and hooks up with florist Renee Zellwegger (breaking one of the golden rules of movies which is that animals and humans should not be able to converse in English) to sue Big Honey for stealing their produce. It's got some decent laughs, some obvious Seinfeld observational "bits", and it goes down well enough without being too sickly. |
| 5/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| AVI |
| 28/1/2008 |
| bendy dicks |
| emma sargent |
| 10/10 |
do phone me on 0161 384 8479. |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| girls |
| 9/3/2005 |
| Bereft |
| Tasty |
| 7/10 |
mebbe an 8
a glimpse inside of a deranged birds mind. Quite twisted |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DIVX |
| 11/8/2005 |
| Best In Show |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
There's a good chance the overall rating will creep higher after follow-up viewings. After appearing in the original mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap some 20 years ago, Christopher "these go up to 11" Guest has also made a few of his own. The latest, For Your Consideration, will be reviewed whenever I can be arsed, but in the meantime there's his 2000 effort. Set in the peculiar world of dog shows, and featuring Eugene "baked goods" Levy, Guest himself and fellow Spinal Michael "any buggering in it?" Mckean, amongst other Guest collaborators. It's often improvised, so if you're a Curb Your Enthusiasm fan you'll love it. If you liked Little Miss Sunshine, you'll love the road movie aspect as each dog owner is followed journeying to Pennsylvania to win the titular "Best In Show". But even if you like none of those things the commentary duo are hilarious as the expert has to fend off inane suggestions and ideas from the Alan Partridge who knows nothing about dogs. Or dog shows. |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| AVI |
| 5/3/2007 |
| Big Fish |
| Streaky |
| 9/10 |
Call me a sentimental old badger if you really have to, but there's something about Father/Son relationships that make me go a big rubbery one, (Fight Club, before you start) especially if they have giants, witches and Ewan "That's hardly a substitute" Mcgregor with an Alabama accent doing his best stuff in years. It's Tim "Beetlejuice & fuck loads else" Burton at the helm, also has his bird Helena Bonham Carter and Albert Finney as an dying father whose estranged son wants to straighten things up by finding out if the stories told him as a little boy really happened, were embellished, or just plain invented by a deranged mind. The beauty, as acted out by Mcgregor as the younger Finney, is that you never really know for sure, and by the end you don't care. Storytelling is so much more than an entertaining yarn before you go to sleep, whether real or imagined, and while fiction contains grains of truth and vice versa it's most important of all that stories are told to never lose our sense of imagination and wonder. |
| 5/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 9/10 |
| Cinema |
| 5/2/2004 |
| Blades Of Glory |
| Streaky |
| 6/10 |
Will Ferrell is coasting in this one just a little bit. Perhaps it's not considered "cannon" Ferrell, as he's waiting to make the last of his trilogy that includes Anchorman & Talladega Nights, but it's got a few laughs all the same. Jon "Napoleon" Heder is his ice-skating rival, forced to become his partner when their podium sissy-fight causes the official mascot to catch fire. There's plenty of homo-erotica, curveball non sequiturs and put-downs as you'd expect, plus a knock-out bagsy from Pam off The US Office. Jobe from Arrested Development is in it too. |
| 8/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 8/10 |
| AVI |
| 9/9/2007 |
| Boogie nights |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
Not quite in the same league as magnolia but very much that feel, all in 70s clothes and with waay more drugs. Pleasantly surprised. |
| 7/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 5/10 |
| Divx |
| 14/5/2003 |
| Borat |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
I'm torn whether to to start kick-off the review with "believe the hype" or "don't believe the hype". So vexed was I, that I ducked the issue entirely and started off instead pondering the afore-mentioned conundrum.
I'm still no nearer deciding, and there's really no point explaining the plot as a workaround either, because you'll probably know it by now. It's something of a double-edged sword, if you've seen Borat on either of the Ali G shows, you'll see it anyway but will feel like you've seen a lot of it before. If you've not seen it before, it might be because it's not your cup of tea, leaving the third possibility that it IS your cup of tea but you didn't catch it beofre and you'll probably die laughing.
Caveats, conundrums and possibilities duly noted, I did laugh deeply out loud a good half dozen times, with some gurgly noises emanating another half dozen times, but there are more than a few duff gags, and some just plain uncomfortable stuff. There is some genuinely revealing behaviour from the American yee-hahs Borat snags, but the point he tries to make (the joke is not on him, the joke is on people who could seriously entertain such anti-semitic, racist, sexist views) isn't developed nearly as often as a truly great piece of work should be. Too often it relies on shock/nasty routines, as if Cohen doesn't have enough brains or respect for his audience to carry off the material.
It's very nearly tremendous, but not quite enough, but compared to Ali G In Da House, it's Citizen Kane. |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| Cinema |
| 20/11/2006 |
| Bourne Identity |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
Excellent all round film - apparently there's a couple of copies floating around, mine was reasonably decent quality (link from sharereactor).
Good plot, good characters, reasonable bagsy, a car chase through paris of similar proportions to the one in Ronin only not *quite* as mad, lots of sneaky beaky & secret squirrel action, running around fields with guns and people mysteriously getting caps popped in their asses. Top All Round Film. |
| 5/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 0/10 |
| VCD |
| 11/10/2002 |
| Bowling for Columbine |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
This is something a bit different. You know when I say "doesn't exactly push the boundaries of film" - well that doesn't apply here. This is something a bit different - sort of a docu-opinion-omentary and whilst there's not much on the bagsy front and ...oh just watch it. Summary: america's gun laws + americans + guns = trouble. |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 7/10 |
| SVCD |
| 13/1/2003 |
| Bridget Jones' Diary |
| LD50 |
| 7/10 |
If you like Four weddings, Notting Hill etc, then this will be right up your street. Bit of a bird's film and slightly predictable but essentially quite good. |
| 1/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| DIVX/dvdrip |
| 8/4/2002 |
| Brokeback Mountain |
| Streaky |
| 10/10 |
There's an episode of South Park, in which an independent film festival moves to the town, causing Cartman to remark that independent films are just "a bunch of gay cowboys eating pudding".
Life has now imitated art, in the latest film by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger and Jake "Donnie Darko" Gyllenhal, it tells of 2 sheep herders in 1960s Wyoming who, well, fall in love during those cold lonely nights. And have bottom sex. Despite each of them saying "I'm not queer" and going their separate ways into heterosexuality - they both marry and have children - they still can't forget that yearning and meet up each year to re-explore their love. Unable to commit to one another because of the times they live in, they steal these moments for themselves.
So it's a love story then. A Brief Encounter updated. what distinguishes it is the gorgeous cinematography, the excellent witty and mournful script, and two world-class performances from the leads. It's slow to get going, and never gallops along, instead tracking their lives over 20 years, but once you're involved you can't take your eyes off the screen. It's fully desrving of the Oscar it surely will land. But they never eat any pudding though. |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 5/10 |
| Cinema |
| 19/1/2006 |
| Bruno |
| Streaky |
| 9/10 |
If Borat's mission for Sacha Baron Cohen was to expose the racist underbelly of American society, then Bruno is his attempt to uncover its homophobia. Transformed from a Kazak to an Austrian (the most famous since Hitler) he journeys across the US on a mission to be a celebrity by any means possible. If that means hitting on a presidential candidate, making Paula Abdul use a Mexican as a chair, asking a mother's permission to use liposuction on her baby or photographing his African orphan being crucified then so be it. Not only is the film intensely funny, you have to give Cohen credit for endangering his life in pursuit of laughs; he's chased by observant Jews in Israel, an incident that doesn't look at all staged. Tighter than Borat, the film does not lose focus in the last 30 minutes as its predecessor did, and more pointed. Borat exposed, if not actual racism, then people's apathy to it, where Bruno shows Americans more than happy to applaud bikinis as patriotic but gays as something underhand. The look of an American's face where Straight Dave becomes Gay Bruno says it all. |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 10/10 |
| Cinema |
| 7/8/2009 |
| Buffalo Soldiers |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Joaquin Phoenix racks up another impressive performance as Ray Ellwood, kind of a Catch 22 Nately for the modern age. He's the guy who sorts out the drugs and what have you for US forces stationed in Berlin. War is hell, but peace is fucking boring, the saying goes. The film comments on the complacency and entropy of the armed forces in peace time, as well as the bloated decadence of empire, the contempt and arrogance of occupying powers. It's also easy to read the film as a bunch of man-childs getting a nasty shock when their games turn very real and frightening, as a big score selling guns for drugs gets serious. I mentioned Catch 22 because it's what it reminds me of most. It's about the madness and surreality of the armed forces, overseen by a effete Ed Harris afraid of losing his job, and while it occasionally borders on the glib, it's got a great a bagsy from Anna Paquin, and that ain't ever bad. |
| 7/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 6/10 |
| AVI |
| 18/2/2007 |
| Burn After Reading |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Taking advantage of the North American bias in movie release schedules, during my recent visit out West I strolled into one of the many Vancouver cinemas to see the Coen Brothers follow-up to the Oscar winning No Country For Old Men, a good month or two before the UK release. Featuring the regulars Frances "Mrs Joel Coen" McDormand & George Clooney, along with Brad Pitt, John Malkovich & Tilda Swinton, it's a fluffy counterpoint to the weighty tomes of universal indifference and growing old that No Country illuminated.
A CD of ex-CIA analyst memoirs finds it's way to the brilliantly air-headed Pitt & his surgery-obsessed colleague McDormand, setting off a chain of events that uncovers several extra-marital affairs and espionage in a Washington insiders merry-go-round. For the Brothers, it's less about plot and more about the result of individual parts adding up to a great deal less than the whole, as well as the aforementioned universal indifference rejecting typical "good guy gets girl" conventions. Clooney always does his best stuff with the Coens, juggling sneaky ne'er do wells with blunder headed stupidity and rogueish charm, while Malkovich & Swinton tend to play to slightly broader versions of their type. Quick praise also for JK Simmons' cameo as head of the CIA. FYI - This is the fourth of theirs I've reviewed here and as I tend to remark, you need to see Coen films more than once. |
| 6/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 9/10 |
| Cinema |
| 13/10/2008 |
| Butterfly effect |
| LD50 |
| 8/10 |
Whilst possibly not *quite* as fucked up as Requiem for a dream this is definitely one of those messy ones. This twisted puppy sees the dark haired guy from "dude where's my money back" (sorry I'm crap with actors names) in a serious role about a guy who can affect past events by reading his journals and going off on a wibbly one...since things are kinda messed up when he figures this out it naturally seemed like a cracking idea to go back and od things differently... but oh what about the knock-on effects...never thought of that did you? Inevitable shenannigans ensue...
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| 6/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DivX |
| 16/8/2004 |
| Capote |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
Truman Capote was, let's not be coy, a dangerously gay New York socialite and writer. Alerted and intrigued by the brutal murder of a family in Kansas, he endeavours to track down and interview the killers, in so doing creaitng virtually a new writing genre, the non-fiction novel. When it was released, In Cold Blood made him one of the most heralded writers of his time. The film is the story of what it does to him to get there, and why he never finished a piece of writing again. Assisted by his friend Harper Lee, the writer of To Kill A Mockingbird (gave me no useful information on killing mockingbirds, as Homer Simpson remarked but a BAFTA nomination for Catherine Keener, while Philip "her life is in your hands dude" Seymour Hoffman will surely win the oscar) Capote travels to Kansas and befriends one of the killers and seeks to make his magnum opus by telling their grisly story, claiming to restore their humanity. They believe he's there to get them off the hook, something Capote leads them to believe in order to get the nitty gritty of the murders, leading his duplicitous ways as it slowly erodes his soul. The problem he has, without wanting to give too much away, is that he can't finish the book while they're still alive, he needs them dead before he writes the final chapter, while they need him to keep them alive. Were it not for Hoffman's astonishingly layered and subtle non-parody performance, the film may well have been an also-ran, it's not a Best Picture as there's not quite enough to dig into, but Hoffman himself is well worth the cinema ticket/download time. |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 3/10 |
| AVI |
| 28/2/2006 |
| Capturing The Friedmans |
| Streaky |
| 10/10 |
The Friedman's are your average American suburban family, the father teaches with his son in an after-school computing class, they are well known throughout the community. Then one day, the father and son are arrested, and charged with several counts of sexual abuse pertaining to the pupils in their class. What then follows is possibly one of the most breathtaking documentaries put to film. Using the family's own home movies (something they were fans of ever since the first camcorder was sold) to augment the standard interviewing technique, director Andrew Jarecki has lifted up the metaphorical rock and observed the scurrying ants. Accusations, denials and counter-accusations all build up as the family turn on each other and a once-happy unit disintegrates in front of our eyes. With a (literal) jaw-dropping revelation by one of the characters the film moves onto another level, beyond the almost mundane search for truth among conflicting testimony, to the empathy of the terrible and grotesque only the very best films can even dream of reaching. It's a challenging and often shocking film but utterly essential viewing |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DVD |
| 19/8/2004 |
| Casino Royale |
| Streaky |
| 8/10 |
James Blonde, Bond is Blond, shrieked the headlines as Daniel Craig's name was announced for the latest re-launch of the franchise. These simpering toady hacks duly ate their words once the film had, you know, been made and viewed. Craig is your balls-out Bond, not one to think twice before popping caps in various crevices, and even speedier to let his fists do the talking. Plots, girls and mcguffins are irrelevant here. It's Bond FFS. But it's a Bond closer to OHMSS (the George Lazenby one) in that it's unlike the usual formula. More like The Bond Supremacy. Daniel Craig gives us what Moore (my personal favourite) and certainly the Scottish thug were unable to; the reaction from the audience that we want to know more about him. We're interested. And if the ending is anything to go by, we'll get what we want. |
| 7/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 5/10 |
| Cinema |
| 26/11/2006 |
| Changeling |
| Streaky |
| 9/10 |
I have a frequent habit of boiling down often complicated issues in my reviews to snappy, and often glib, phrases. That, and a tendency for meta-commentary and fourth-wall breaking. So I must resist the urges swelling inside me to describe Changeling as a female Shawshank Redemption, or a triple header of Gone Baby Gone (to be reviewed) meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest crossed with Mystic River. An Oscar-worthy Angelina Jolie is a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles who reports her young son missing. After a few agonising months, the LAPD report that her son has been found. When she is reunited, however, she insists that the returned boy is not her son. The boy maintains his story, in spite of some pretty serious physical evidence to the contrary, corroborated by his teacher and dentist. The more Jolie protests, the more she uncovers the corruption at the heart of the LAPD, and the more they tries to make the issue about her mental competence. It says a good deal about the attitude to women at the time that her emotional state is seen as the inherent weakness of her gender and not a reaction to truly tragic events. The film doesn't stop there though. It heads into new territory, becoming less that of an individual's fight against a cruel system and more an action/thriller about a missing person. If there is a criticism, it is that this multi-genre approach does lose a little of the focus the first hour had kept. It is, though, a minor criticism, as Clint Eastwood's latest outing as director is as good as anything he's done in recent times, which is saying quite a bit. This film is by no means an easy watch, and as Simon Mayo put it, "there's an awful lot of Shawshank before the Redemption", but Eastwood's unsentimental and steady hand keep the story going, while Jolie is captivating as a woman forced to find new depths of courage in a scenario most of us can scarcely imagine. |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 4/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 0/10 |
| Cinema |
| 8/12/2008 |
| Charlie & The Chocolate Factory |
| Streaky |
| 9/10 |
I was in serious worried the film would be buried in a Burton/Depp wankfest, but I'm proud to say it's one of the book-to-film adaptations I've seen. Running as close to the book as possible, as well as expanding the story of the strange and mercurial Mr Wonka (apparently, his dad was a dentist, and forbid him having sweets) Burton has managed to bring Dahl's crazy world of oompah-loompahs, chocolate waterfalls and nut-cracking squirrels to life on screen. This isn't one of your cynical, sneering reviews. It was one of my favourite books as a child, and Burton has done those memories justice. |
| 3/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 8/10 |
| Cinema |
| 4/8/2005 |
| Charlie Wilson's War |
| Streaky |
| 4/10 |
There were many moments in Charlie Wilson's War where I was thinking about writing this review today and comparing it to the worst aspects of Forrest Gump (for the small number of you as yet unaware, I'm not a fan). It's not just because Tom Hanks plays a compromised (but only in a harmless whisky and women way), blockheaded southerner, a variation on so many roles he has tackled in the past. It's not just the queasy equivalence between him feeling bad for creating a monster in the Afghan resistance and the victims of their resistance to Soviet aggression. It's not just the Hollywood re-write of history portraying war profiteers as honourable idealists nobling pursuing democractic visions; while airbrushing the unworthy victims (i.e. ones killed with American weapons) from history and promoting the worthy victims (i.e. ones America isn't responsible for killing) with a hysteria approaching the evangelical. It's not just the clunking heavy-fist of religious intolerance (War is just fine people, provided of course we're waging it, just don't bring God into it otherwise things might get out of hand) among many other issues that cause the sick to rise in the throat. In so many respects, it is a patronising, glib and deeply offensive piece of cheap propaganda recycling the "white man's burden" arguments of a century ago where it is only the American that brings freedom with his anti-helicopter missiles. So why haven't I given the film zero? Well, there's a very small flip-side. Charlie Wilson is led around like a dog chasing biscuits by various powerful people with their own agendas. The 6th richest Texan, Julia Roberts wants to convert the heathens, hence the donations to his campaign; the Pakistani president doesn't want the refugees coming across the border so he shows him evidence of Soviet brutality. It's possible to see the film where corrupt but savvy congressman Wilson manipulated into financing a resistance movement that spirals out of control, but it requires too many imaginative leaps. Too many assumptions about a benign American empire taken for granted. Too many historical falsehoods (the CIA provoked the Soviets to invade to give them the excuse to support and radicalise the Mujahadeen) and too much Uncle Sam exceptionalism (invasions are bad, except when we do them, then it's good) to drag it away from its "life is a chocolate box" bigger brother. |
| 5/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 6/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| DVD Screener |
| 15/1/2008 |
| Charlies Angels II: Full Throttle |
| TF12 |
| 9/10 |
Birds fighting other birds in tight pants. Ace. Very funny, totally ridiculous. Apparently the burlesque dancers in the club also dance at Johnny Depp's club in LA... I want to go there.
Stonking good romp. |
| 10/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 9/10 |
| Downloaded DVD |
| 7/11/2003 |
| Children Of Men |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
I had to open up a new window to check my reviews as I wrote this, as I'm pretty sure I'd made the point I was going to make before. And I had. In V For Vendetta, I'd said the political ideas aren't very well or realistically expressed, as they're made by filmmakers who are good at visuals, not politics. I feel something similar with Children Of Men. It's set in 2027 where for reasons not very clearly explained, there hasn't been a baby born for 18 years, and in V or 1984 style, Britain is now a virtual fascist state. Gangs of chavs/proles throw stones at outer party worker Clive "Chancer" Owen's train, as he escapes to the country retreat of weed-toking Michael "fousands of 'em" Caine. By chance his ex Julianne "strongly vaginal" Moore involves him in an adventure where he has to help the first pregnant woman in 2 decades get out of the country. As a chase movie, Children Of Men is awesome. The photography of the actions scenes (Car drive-by shooting & hunt in a Stalingrad-style refugee camp) are better than anything I've ever seen, better than Private Ryan's good bit. But the "future is now" stuff (immigration, infertility, authoritarianism) is left unexplained. I'm guessing it's because director Alfonso Cuaron didn't think it would be frankly strong enough, and left open to too much criticism. Reminds me of Jersey Girl or Lady In The Water where important life-changing stuff is left unsaid because the director probably knows it would never be satisfying enough to all. It's a pretty bleak film, portraying a very faint flicker of hope in a world otherwise gone to hell. Perfect for a hangover. |
| 3/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 10/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 3/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 1/10 |
| AVI |
| 11/2/2007 |
| Churchill: The Hollywood Years |
| Streaky |
| 7/10 |
In much the same way as Richard Curtis' Hugh Grant based comedies are a who's who of the British acting talent of recent years, this Peter "Comic Strip" Richardson film is a who's who of the comedy talent in Britain today. Christian "It's Better To Have A Gun And Not Need It" Slater stars as the real Winston Churchill, an American GI who saved the Brits asses/arses by stealing the Nazi Enigma coding machine and upon his return to old blighty in Spring 1940 finds himself embroiled in a Hitler plot to kidnap Princess Elizabeth and take over the country. With a supporting cast of Phil Cornwell, Vic & Bob, Leslie "I Say" Phillips Mackenzie "Gareth" Crook, Miranda "Queenie" Richardson, Harry "No!!!!!" Enfield and the lovely Neve Campbell as Princess Liz herself, for those of you who haven't guessed yet it's a superb piss-take of the revisionist *cough* Private Ryan *cough* movies of recent years, portraying Yanks as the saviours of humanity. So if any of you harbour Anti-American views or like Top Secret type self effacement, or seeing every single Brit as dangerously gay inbred fops, it's a laugh a minute. |
| 7/10 |
| 8/10 |
| 7/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 5/10 |
| 7/10 |
| Cinema |
| 9/12/2004 |
| City of lost Children |
| LD50 |
| 5/10 |
Very odd film. Visually - nightmare before christmas meets the borg with a bit of oliver twist in there. Didn't really understand what was going on, brain in a tank, cloned people, kids nicking things and lots of strange characters. |
| 0/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 2/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 0/10 |
| 9/10 |
| 0/10 |
| DivX |
| 4/1/2005 |
Umm these are all legit ok - or legal backups or something.
