In 1973 General Augusto Pinochet led a coup to take power in Chile. While in power he was responsible for the murders of over 3,000 people and the torture of a further 29,000 (figures from Wikipedia). In 1988, under international… Continue Reading
There is only one thing wrong with What Richard Did, and that is its title. The film is 90 minutes long and the event the title refers to takes place at around (I’m guessing here) the halfway mark. Where a… Continue Reading
Die Hard is probably the greatest action movie ever made. I say probably not because I am not certain of this fact, but because someone will inevitably want to argue with the point and, if you don’t believe that Die… Continue Reading
Flight tells the story of “Whip” Whitaker (Denzel Washington), a drunk and drug-abusing pilot (the cocaine sobers him up after an all-night bender) who becomes a hero after managing to crash-land the plane he was flying after a small (but… Continue Reading
Live Comedy: Festival of the Spoken Nerd @ Forest Arts Centre, New Milton, February 1, 2013 [Sorry I’m late with this] Festival of the Spoken Nerd (FOTSN) are made up of physics graduate and songstress Helen Arney, physics graduate and… Continue Reading
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (ZDT) were both released this week in the UK, are both serious Oscar contenders clocking in at around 2.5 hours, and were both seen by me and my S.O. on Saturday,… Continue Reading
In 1996 this would probably have been a tentpole release in the height of summer. Now it’s reduced to January. What do you need to know? It’s Arnie’s comeback movie and, aside from a few references to being too old… Continue Reading
So another swift(er) review. The Wreck-It Ralph one ran to 500 words in the end anyway. Blimey. Let’s see if we can do this a little quicker. I’ve wasted 27 already. That’s four more…. The Sessions might sound a bit… Continue Reading
A very quick review here – something you may have to get used to. They can’t all be 2,000 word essays like the Django one after all. I can hear you say woohoo. Anyway, brief outline. Wreck-It Ralph is a… Continue Reading
Before we go anywhere else with this review, let me just say that I’m not going to wade in on any of the ‘controversy’ over the depiction of slavery in this film. As a white, middle-class Englishman I don’t really… Continue Reading