Sep
20
2008
Dir & Writ: James Watkins
- Kelly Reilly … Jenny
- Michael Fassbender … Steve
- Bronson Webb … Reece
- Jack O’Connell … Brett
- Thomas Turgoose … Cooper
- Finn Atkins … Paige
- James Gandhi … Adam
- Thomas Gill … Ricky
See also: IMDb ; Other reviews
Jenny and Steve have a quiet weekend in the country planned. A romantic weekend, and Steve is bringing an engagement ring. Awww. Steve wants to show Jenny an abandoned quarry[1] that he used to visit, the area is under construction, the one-time public park is being turned into a gated community called Eden Lake[2] Which of course means that getting to the quarry lake involves going slightly off track through the woods. So when things turn bad be prepared for plenty of running through the trees.
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Linknotes:
- it is a lot prettier than that sounds ↩
- see the social commentary! ↩
May
27
2008
Dir: Steve Barker
Writ: Rae Brunton
- Ray Stevenson … DC
- Julian Wadham … Hunt
- Richard Brake … Prior
- Paul Blair … Jordan
- Brett Fancy … Taktarov
- Enoch Frost … Cotter
- Julian Rivett … Voyteche
You can’t kill what’s already dead! Nazi-Zombies! An 18s rating! That should tell you everything you need to know about this horror flick. Oh, and it has Ray Stevenson (Rome) as an ex-marine mercenary type.
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May
10
2008
Writ & Dir: Neil Marshall
- Rhona Mitra … Eden Sinclair
- Bob Hoskins … Bill Nelson
- Alexander Siddig … John Hatcher
- Malcolm McDowell … Kane
- David O’Hara … Michael Canaris
- Leslie Simpson … Carpenter
- Chris Robson … Stevie Miller
- Sean Pertwee … Dr. Talbot
- Darren Morfitt … Dr. Ben Stirling
- Craig Conway … Sol
- MyAnna Buring … Cally
This film really is utterly preposterous. Unbelievable in the extreme; plot holes every where. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It still kicks ass though. Hugely enjoyable.
It is set in the future, after a virus struck Glasgow the British govt decided the only way to deal with it was to wall off Scotland. Leave the dying to the dead and make sure no one gets through. And so Scotland is abandoned. But years later the virus makes an appearance in England. So a team is sent north, through the wall to the survivors to see if they can find a cure.
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Oct
02
2005
- Viggo Mortensen …. Tom Stall/Joey Cusack
- Maria Bello …. Edie Stall
- Ed Harris …. Carl Fogarty
This is a strange film. I suppose I should have expected that from the director though shouldn’t I?
We open with two criminal-types, drifting across America, leaving a trail of casual violence behind them. And, if I hadn’t seen the trailers, I might have thought that these two were the main “baddies” of the film. But although their dead-eyed gaze might be enough to stare down the school’s bully, they pick the wrong diner to rob when they head into Stall’s late one night. This is where the story takes off, although the pace is still quite measured.
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