Director Richard Curtis acknowledged in an interview that while someone should definitely make a serious movie about offshore radio broadcasting to the U.K. in 1966, his comedy Pirate Radio, which uses the issue as its backdrop, is merely meant to entertain. It does just that, too, using a hilarious cast [...]
Friday 16 Apr 2010 |
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comedy, drama, movie reviews, recommendations
Even before I took my three younger nephews (ages 4, 6, and 7) to see this somewhat frantic, effects-filled kid flick about super spy guinea pigs, they were quoting one-liners from its trailers. Especially funny to them was the sight and sound of one of the rodents farting inside a tricked-out, super-fast hamster ball.
Thursday 17 Dec 2009 |
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action/adventure, kid's & family, movie reviews
When one stops to think of exactly how many films in the last sixty-odd years have been made about World War II, it boggles the mind. An encyclopedia that listed each of them, alphabetically, would run thousands of pages, and would still need to be updated every month. Today, we will open that book and [...]
Friday 22 May 2009 |
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blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
Kate Beckinsale and her skintight leather outfits are sadly nowhere to be found in this pretentious and poorly lit vampires-vs.-werewolves prequel in which returning players Bill Nighy and Michael Sheen basically duke it out for dominance.
Replacing Beckinsale is leather-clad look-alike Rhona Mitra (Doomsday), a sexy butt-kicking bloodsucker whose vampire king dad (Nighy) has enslaved the [...]
Friday 15 May 2009 |
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action/adventure, blu-ray, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy