Film Guide

If Action Movies had a university, and a department head of ass kicking, surely they would hire Professor Sly Stallone to run said department and teach Action Movies 101.

In saying that we think The Expendables should school even the newbies to this genre to the classic styles of all our favorite heroes.

The cast list is a veritable smörgåsbord of action’s greatest hits. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin and cameos from Bruce Willis and The Governator himself Arnie… dear god the movie execs must have messed themselves when this one got pitched.

But the question that everyone will have is …. does it deliver? …… yes… yes it does.  Read the rest of this entry »

Harry Brown is a retired Ex-Marine living with his wife in one of the roughest projects in the UK. Keeping to himself he avoids the roughest parts and focuses mostly on his beloved wife, who is struggling with illness. Having lost his daughter earlier, he travels the long way around the projects to his wife’s bedside at the hospital, wanders back to his local pub to meet an play chess with his good friend.

After a series of tragic events, Harry’s world is turned upside down and he is pushed to the limit. After loosing all he loves dear his attention is focused on the criminal elements of the projects, who have taken everything from him. While the local police wallow in red tape, apathy and apparent self importance, Harry goes into some of the grittiest and desperate parts of his local community on a mission of revenge.  Read the rest of this entry »

Remember when the Russians were the bad guys? Well.. they are back as the evil protagonists wanting to destabilize the super powers in an all out attempt to bring back cold war rivalries. Sounds great eh?

And so we are introduced to Evelyn Salt, a talented CIA Agent. During a routine interrogation of a Russian defector she is singled out as a potential double agent. However it becomes very clear very quickly that Salt has more to hide than she is letting on. Queue action, twists and turns and you have yourself one entertaining little movie.  Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Pilgrim is the story of a 22 year old slacker living in Toronto, he plays bass in a mates garage band called sex bob-omb, he’s dating a high schooler and sleeping on the floor of a friends place without any real direction in his life. Its all good tho, his rating is awesome, and Ramona Flowers, the girl of his dreams (literally) has just turned up in the real world.

Edger Wrights job of adapting the Scott Pilgrim comic series was never going to be easy, what seems to start out as a quirky indie romance, blindsides you with tekken style fights, sound monster battles, vegan’s with vegan superpowers & vegan police.  Read the rest of this entry »

Cobb (Di Caprio) is a very talented man. Not only can he traverse into your dreams, he can also use such a gift to steal your ideas. In a world where corporate espionage takes on a whole new level, his team of experts can invade a dream steal ideas and maybe even plant ideas.

Ladies and Gentlemen this is Inception. A movie that has not had much in the way of marketing, yet has had an opening weekend in the USA grossing over $60 million dollars. A movie that has had vague trailers with visually stunning action sequences, yet its a movie that everyone will be talking about for a while to come yet.

We have talked extensively as a team about how much we should reveal about this movie, and have decided to reveal not much. Why? Well because our initial understanding of Inception was limited and the discovery of story made the film for us. So we will share our thoughts on just why you need to see it.  Read the rest of this entry »

Long have i heard the lament of the Predator fan’s annoyed at the intrusion of Aliens into their beloved franchise. While the Aliens VS Predators films have added some further depth into the Predators universe, die hard fans have longed to see a return to the originals. Well… Return it has.

Predators started extremely rapidly. Beginning with a mercenary Royce (Adrien Brody), the audience is rapidly brought up to speed with the meeting of very diverse group of people and their very strange surroundings. Before long more details are revealed about their backgrounds, the reasons why they have been picked and ultimately the purpose for why they are there.

Cue the Predators… This is where the movie returns to its roots. Humans being humans, Predators being Predators and an ensuing battle of wits, skill and tactics. Along the journey a few surprises appear, but at the heart of this film is a battle between the hunters and the hunted. As each character brings their own style of combat to the screen, we are treated to a see-saw battle as each side is reduced in number.  Read the rest of this entry »

So ever hear of those stories where a person misses a flight and that saves their lives? Well this movie is fairly much exactly that, except for June Havens (Diaz) she manages to get onboard the ill fated flight. On board Havens strikes up a conversation with Roy Miller (Cruise), a man she seems to be constantly bumping into. Not long into the flight the encounter leads to a possible romantic entanglement, yet before the fires are fanned Miller starts revealing his true identity initially by killing the entire population of the flight – Pilots included.  Read the rest of this entry »

Adapted from Stieg Larssons swedish Novel and the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the Girl Who Played with Fire is a grim mystery delving deeper into the history of Lisbeth Salander, the “Girl” of the series.

The Girl who Played with Fire is set a year or so after the events of “Dragon Tattoo” and brings back Mikael Blomkvist and the team from the investigative magazine Millennium, who’ve just landed their next major story involving sex trafficking & some highly placed individuals in Swedish society. Unfortunately, its never easy trying to bust high society, and they’re hit by some untimely murders with Lisbeth being implicated. There on in its a race between Lisbeth, Mikael & the Cops to find who’s behind the murders before Lisbeth gets caught by either the cops or whoever is behind the hits.   Read the rest of this entry »

Marmaduke is a film about talking animals. More specifically about talking dogs, and a cat. So basically it’s the kind of film that kids love and parents endure. Based on the comic strip of the same name, Marmaduke follows the predictable story of a family that moves from the sedate lifestyle of middle America to Orange County in California in order for father/husband Phil to pursue his dream job, and provide all the better for his family.

But really, Phil and co. are just the subtext for the real action to take place, and that is of the unruly Marmaduke, a Great Dane, to cause havoc and create laughs for the audience in every scene.  Read the rest of this entry »