Review: Get the Gringo/How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Directed by: Adrian Grunberg Starring: Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, and Peter Stormare Plot: A career criminal (Gibson) escapes to Mexico after a big heist. Once there, he is arrested and thrown in jail while the arresting officers take his money. Review: The film takes place inside of a Mexican prison that is more like an enclosed shanty town. … Read more
‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ DVD Review
Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris Plot: When Sherlock Holmes continues following the trail of crime back to Professor James Moriarty he gets more than he expected when the crime lord turns all of his attention onto the consulting detective and his sidekick Dr. … Read more
‘Goldfinger’ Review
Director: Guy Hamilton Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallet, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn Plot: Whilst recovering from a mission Bond is introduced to Auric Goldfinger, a bullion dealer and smuggler who has caught the interest of MI:6 and the CIA. During the investigation into Goldfinger’s activities … Read more
The Sick, The Strange and the Awful Reviews – Shaolin Drunkard
I think there is one rule that can be agreed upon by everyone, at least when it comes to kung fu movies; the Yuen Clan are completely insane. That giant family of actors, stuntman, fight choreographers and producers have produced some of the more ridiculously over the top wire-fighting movies of the 80s, and Shaolin Drunkard is perhaps … Read more
Oscar-Worthy but Ignored Part 1: Comedy
At the end of every year, the articles involving the Academy Awards always start coming out. They are about who should be nominated, who should win, and who got snubbed. What inevitable comes up every year is how some genres are simply ignored by the Oscars. Comedy. Horror. Science Fiction. Every year becomes worse and … Read more
50 Years of Bond: ‘From Russia With Love’ Review
Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell Plot: When evil organisation SPECTRE concoct a plan to steal a Russian decoding machine they see an opportunity to lure out James Bond, wanting to kill him in retaliation for his actions against Dr. No … Read more
Review: The Divide
Director: Xavier Gens Written by: Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean Starring: Michael Biehn, Lauren German, Milo Ventimiglia, and Rosanna Arquette Plot: During a nuclear attack, a few residents of an apartment building are able to get to the building’s bomb shelter. Review: I think one of the only things worse than seeing a major American metropolitan area … Read more
50 Years of Bond: ‘Dr. No’ Review
Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Ursala Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, John Kitzmiller, Bernard Lee Plot: When a British agent is murdered by three assassins known as the ‘Three Blind Mice’ Double-0 Agent James Bond is dispatched to Jamaica to investigate. There he finds a wider conspiracy headed up by the enigmatic Dr. No. … Read more
The Avengers: A Modern ‘Seven Samurai’
First and foremost – no, The Avengers is not as good a movie as Seven Samurai. The Avengers is awesome. Damn awesome. It took a whole bunch of awesome things and put them together to create a whole new level of awesome. This is a level of awesome we may not see surpassed until…well…The Dark … Read more
Review: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
As many of you may have noticed we geeks sometimes get a bad stereotype as sloppy losers who shun social settings (though we all know that’s not the case). But there is one social setting that we all revere to some extent, Comic Con and with his new film, Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s … Read more
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