Review: My Last Five Girlfriends
After seeing the gritty but flawed British film ‘The Scouting Book for Boys’, Reviewed here, I was looking forward to witnessing another British film in ‘My Last Five Girlfriends’ and hoped for another example of what British Cinema has to offer. Unfortunately it turned out to be a flat, underwhelming Rom-Com but something that would [...]
HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 8
As we enter the eighth week of the IMDb250 Project it’s becoming clear that the experience has completely changed our tastes, our appreciation and our knowledge of movies and movie making in general after only 20 films viewed each so far, that is something truly incredible for us personally and a real positive for attempting [...]
Review: The Scouting Book For Boys
The Scouting Book for Boys is a solid Directorial debut film from Tom Harper and showcases what the wonderful British film industry is willing to support get made. Starring the excellent young talents of Thomas Turgoose of This is England fame and Holly Grainger who starred in the TV series Demons and Waterloo Road, these [...]
Review: Shutter Island
Shutter Island, a film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in their forth collaboration in eight years. On the back of the Oscar winning The Departed the pair have a lot to live up too in the adaptation of Dennis Lehane novel of the same name and gladly the film was a triumph [...]
Review: Green Zone
Clearly the only way to really promote Green Zone was to use the word Bourne in as many places possible, in the trailer, on posters in interviews and of course it’s the best way to promote Green Zone because the lead character looks him and according to the trailer acts like him but it’s just the [...]
Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is based on the first of the popular Millennium trilogy books by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Already into the third film of the trilogy in Scandanavia since November 2009, we lucky Brits are finally getting the chance to see the first film of the trilogy this week and its [...]
HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 6
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, [...]
Review: The Crazies
I love a good horror movie and when I heard that George Romero’s “The Crazies” was being remade for a new generation I was very intrigued as Romero’s movies always have a certain frightening charm and offer a brilliant satirical message that normally goes beyond a normal horror storyline we get to see, especially in [...]
Review: Leap Year
I’m no fan of Rom-Com’s unless it’s got a Zom in the middle of it or it’s the surprisingly decent “It’s Complicated”, and I struggle to understand what is the point of them as most are so formulaic and predictable but they keep getting made with little degree of success so I entered the screening [...]
Review: Extraordinary Measures
Harrison Ford is one of my acting heroes, there wasn’t a day that passed in my youth that I didn’t want to be either Han Solo or Indiana Jones when playing with my friends at home or in school and it fills with with dread watching one of his new movies and seeing this once [...]
