Films
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Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Cracking! I should really leave it at that, shouldn’t I. After all if you don’t know who Wallace and Gromitt are then I have to ask where you’ve been hiding. Now, I’m pretty sure they are more popular in the UK, and given the focus on the…
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The Aristocrats
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic The Aristocrats of the title are the closing line of a joke, a family act that feature in a joke so disgustingly offensive comedians rarely tell it in public, or at least that’s partly why. The beauty of the joke is that the “act” can be swapped…
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Willy Wonka
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an odd thing for me. I read the books as a child and can still remember both enjoying the original movie and being completely befuddled by it in what was my first experience watching a movie of a book I’d already…
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Madagascar
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Try as I might I can’t help myself, I just HAVE to compare this to Pixar’s offerings and, alas, it falls woefully short. But that’s not really important, after all this is aimed at the kiddies, so from their viewpoint, does it hit the mark? The story…
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War of the Worlds
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic SPIELBERG, CRUISE, EPIC MOVIE, INCLUDING MORGAN FREEMAN NARRATING (doesn’t get much more epic than that these days… whatever happened to James Earl Jones?). Yes, the self-proclaimed “blockbuster of the year” has finally been viewed and it was bloody good. Well it could have been utterly amazing, but…
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Batman Begins
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Well, well, well. There’s life in the old bat yet! I have to admit that I had fairly high hopes for this being a fan of both the director, Christopher Nolan, and the lead, Christian Bale, and I’ll happily admit that they delivered a solid movie. The…