Archive for June, 2010

Control...

One of the more quirky films I have seen recently was Control. The film is based around the beginnings of the band Joy Division in the mid 1970s, the trials and tribulations of the lead singer Ian Curtis and the music scene they entered. Set in Macclesfield and Manchester, the film...

The Wizard of Oz...

The other day I caught the Wizard of Oz on the television and decided to watch it, as I hadn’t seen it for a good 10 years! It instantly reminded me of childhood and I remember all the characters quite vividly. My impression of the film has always been of a very dark, sinister...

Cage and Kidman Team...

Hollywood stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman have signed on to feature in the action-adventure Trespass. Joel Schumacher will direct the headline cast who are rumoured to play a married couple taken hostage by a brutal group of 4 trying to make some easy money. Aside from this...

Predator 2...

The other night on Channel 4 Predator 2 was aired. It was a good few years since I last saw this film, the 1990 sequel to the 1987 film Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the protagonist trying to hunt down an unknown being. At the end of that film the Predator is beaton by...

Sex and the City 2...

Sex and the City 2 was released last week and the reviews have been pretty good. Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda all return as the 4 of them travel to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The girls get up to their usual tricks of meeting old flames and behaving in an inappropriate...