20 December 2011
Call no: 1910s
Cast: Jared Harris, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Robert Downey Jr., Stephen Fry
Script: Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
Genre: Action, detective & mystery, historical fiction
6 Stars
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Based on books by Arthur Conan Doyle I really enjoyed the first of these “reimaginings”, although I don’t think that Robert Downey Jr.’s character is really Sherlock Holmes. I haven’t read a lot of the Conan Coyle stories, although they … Continue reading
12 September 2010
Cast: Alison Pill, Anna Kendrick, Ellen Wong, Johnny Simmons, Kieran Culkin, Mark Webber, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera
Script: Edgar Wright, Michael Bacall
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: Canada
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Scott Pilgram is dating a highschooler. A 17-teen year old Chinese American highschooler to be precise. But then he encounters Ramona Flowers and becomes a “nice guy” dick and starts seeing her two. But Ramona has a past, 7 evil exes, and for some reason Scott must fight and defeat them all. Continue reading
10 January 2010
Cast: Eddie Marsan, James McAvoy, Jude Law, Mark Strong, Michael Peña, Peter Kay, Rachel McAdams, Robert Downey Jr., Robert John Burke
Script: Anthony Peckham, Lionel Wigram, Michael Robert Johnson, Simon Kinberg
Genre: Action, detective & mystery, historical fiction
Setting: London
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Based on books by Arthur Conan Doyle IMDb ; Sherlock Holmes Guy Ritchie’s re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes is quite a different man from the detective that might pop into your head when you hear the name. There are similarities, of … Continue reading
31 May 2007
Cast: Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Keith Richards, Mackenzie Crook, Orlando Bloom, Stellan Skarsgard
Script: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Genre: historical fiction, sff
7 Stars
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Surprisingly I liked this. I loved the first, but was bored during the second, so I wasn’t expecting great things from the third in the series. Maybe this was the reason I liked it, low expectations and all, but whatever … Continue reading
4 April 2007
Cast: Chris Evans, James Arnold Taylor, Laurence Fishburne, Mako, Mikey Kelley, Mitchell Whitfield, Nolan North, Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ziyi Zhang
Script: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird
Genre: Action, sff
6 Stars
2 Comments
Come on now, who doesn’t love the “heroes in a half-shell”? The main reason I went to see this was that is was on at the right time, and of course the nostalgia reason. Plus I haven’t been to see … Continue reading
11 November 2006
Cast: Asia Argento, Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst, Marianne Faithfull, Rip Torn, Shirley Henderson, Steve Coogan
Script: Sofia Coppola
Genre: biopic
Setting: 1790s, C18th, France
4 Stars
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2 August 2006
Cast: Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen
Script: Luc Besson
Genre: sff, thriller
Setting: France
5 Stars
4 Comments
Don’t you just hate when a film you’ve been enjoying falls to pieces in the final third? Angel-A starts off well. We meet André as he tries to talk his way out of debt, on a few occasions. None of … Continue reading
28 July 2006
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Daniel Craig, Ian Holm, Romola Garai
Script: Alexandre de La Patelliere, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Patrick Raynal
Genre: animation, sff
Setting: France, future
6 Stars
2 Comments
It is 2054, Paris and a young woman has just been kidnapped. Karas, a police captain specialising in kidnapping is charged to find her, and to find her alive. The company she works for, Avalon, are very insistent that this … Continue reading
11 June 2006
Cast: Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen
Script: Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn
Genre: Action, sff
5 Stars
8 Comments
In this, the third X-Men film, there are two main plot lines. One concerns Jean Grey and her return from death in the form of the ultra powerful Dark Phoenix. The other revolves around a cure for the mutant gene, … Continue reading
6 May 2006
Cast: Alexa Davalos, Colm Feore, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Thandie Newton, Vin Diesel
Script: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: alien
7 Stars
9 Comments
I’m a big fan of Pitch Black, that low budget horror in space. And I used to be a big fan of Vin Diesel’s but recent film-roles have made me all a bit meh. Still, I’m surprised it took me … Continue reading