Two of my favourite Hollywood stars join forces resulting in the magic that is bound to happen when auteur Tim Burton asks Johnny Depp to be Hatter in a remake of Alice in Wonderland. And happen it did, for me at least. I thought this was a slice of pure Burton genius. Like so many [...]
From the moment the curtain rolls back Scorsese sets the scene for the next two and half hours, it is dense, tense, dark and supposedly a bit scary.
Since 2006 a group of us have been hitting the road on the Australia Day weekend and enjoying three or four days of riding Australia’s high country. This year the group expanded to 11 people, which dropped back to 10 on day one when poor old Robbie put his BMW K1200 over the side of [...]
I heard great things about this movie but it just failed to light up the screen for me right from the get go. I found it sitting on a fence and it never really got anything; scary, eventful, worrysome, nervous, trippy, stimulating or otherwise it just sat on the fence not really saying anything about [...]
The big struggle for top spot this year would have to be between Avatar and Sherlock Holmes, and what Guy Ritchie has done here probably won’t outrun Cameron for top billing but it sure will please fans of the action thriller genre and every Robert Downey Jr fan. Now I must say that I am [...]
There are so many things about this movie to like and the reason it will be treasured for years to come for me is the way that the imagination of the original story has been brought to life for the big screen. I was immediately quite taken aback by the level of adult complexity to [...]
One of this year’s most hyped movies was hard to resist, and resist I did only to try and avoid completely full cinemas which annoy me, but finally tonight I succumbed to the treat that is Avatar in 3D. I have always held Cameron in the highest regard for his vivid imagination and storytelling genius, [...]
The Way of the Gun is a violent and graphic movie that I’d only seen the intro for on YouTube (see below) and just couldn’t wait to get into. Unusual in it’s portrayal of violence because it isn’t your typical relentless, ridiculous, and without risk kind of violence. This is very real and quite squirmishly [...]
I’ll be up front right up front, this is your spoiler alert. I will talk about the whole of 9, so if you don’t want to know then don’t read on. I love Tim Burton films and every time one is coming up I do my absolute best not to find out anything about them [...]
Nothing annoys me more than general disinterest. Not that I think I am interesting, or insisting that you pay attention to me right now, but if you as me a question, or you want to know something and you expect that I answer, then the very least I expect in return is your undivided, focussed [...]
