Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World From the director of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead – Edgar Wright – comes this new film, based on a comic book whose title comes from an obscure song from a now split-up band. It’s a mix of pop-culture references, slacker comedy, romantic comedy, and 8-bit video …
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Movie: The Expendables
Movie: The Expendables Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. This is a movie starring a range of stars from old 80’s and 90’s action movies, with ridiculous character names: Jason Statham as Lee Christmas, Jet Li as Yin Yang, Randy Couture as Toll Road, Dolph Lundgren as Gunnar Jensen, Terry Crews as Hale Caesar, Mickey …
movie – inception
Movie: Inception I spent a little over a week trying to avoid spoilers for this movie, and was glad I did. This is a movie that has been greatly hyped, and has done well at the box office. It’s a thinking person’s action movie. In my experience, it’s worth paying attention as you watch it, …
Movie: Kick-A**
Movie: Kick-A**. A lot of controversy surrounded this film, not so much for its (mostly) comic-book style violence, but that one of the films “superheroes” is a foul-mouthed 11 year old named “Hit Girl”. Indeed, this movie is ground breaking in putting particular words into the mouth of a child. Nicholas Cage channels Adam West’s …
Movie: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Movie: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Not necessarily my first choice of film from what’s out at the cinema, but this was the agreed film choice, and Kermode liked it, so I thought I’d give it a try. Sadly, I felt one of the major cast members – Maggie Gyllenhaal – was miscast as …
Movie: The Men who Stare at Goats
Movie: The Men who Stare at Goats Decided to see this one after seeing the trailer, and so when Popcorn Taxi announced their screening of the men who stare at goats Kel and I decided to head along. Unusually for a popcorn taxi screening, there were some empty seats in the cinema – I think …
Movie: The Road
Movie: The Road What would you do if there was some kind of natural disaster that mean that plants no longer grew, and animals no longer lived? How long would society endure, and what would come after that for those who were trying to hold onto what became of thier lives? The Road is a …
movie: Avatar
A post over at Servant of Chaos asked “What was your best post of the year”, and in looking back, I wasn’t able to find one that I thought was really great. To this end, I’m aiming for one post each week this year where I go into a lot more detail about a particular …
Movie: Collision
Movie: Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson A bit of an unusual movie screening, this one: a church in Newtown arranged for a screening of this documentary at the Dendy in Newtown. Matt had mentioned this film to me recently as one that took an unusual approach. Instead of showing simply the debates between renowned …
Movie: The Box
Movie: The Box I’ve been a fan of Richard Kelly since I first heard about the website that accompanied Donnie Darko – at the time, it was really groundbreaking to have a site that complimented a movie and even added extra depth to the film. After the hard-to-follow Southland Tales, The Box represents some more …