Archive for August, 2011

Cowboys and Aliens

August 23rd, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

 
Alien versus Prospectors…
An amnesiac Daniel ‘there’s more to me than James Bond’ Craig wakes up in the dessert unawares of who he is or how a metal contraption has found its way on to his wrist. He soon arrives at a sleepy backwater town just in time to upset a powerful local businessman and [...]

2011 Film Reviews

August 23rd, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

 
The Buckfast and the Furious…
Neds
1970’s Glasgow is the setting for this good-kid-gone-bad tale in which sweet natured school boy swat John McGill goes from being top of the class to leader of a tearaway gang. As a pre-teen bookworm he escaped school yard bullies by living in the safety of his violent brothers notoriety, [...]

Super 8 & Super Apes: The best of summer spectacles…

August 12th, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Super 8
Its small town Ohio 1979, and a group of 13 year old boys sneak out after dark to film a pivotal scene in their homemade horror film on their dad’s old super 8 camera. However they get more than they ever bargained for when they are witnesses to an epic train crash that’s carrying [...]

some more fave films of the year so far…

August 8th, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Carrying on from part 1, Harry and co. must continue in their quest to destroy Voldermort’s Hocruxes and rob him of his immortality. Then he must face his arch rival in a show down to end all show downs.
If this thundering film franchise could be compared to [...]

Captain America

August 8th, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Captain America
Set during the War years of the 1940’s, it stars the Fantastic Fours Chris Evans, who as the film starts out is Benjamin Buttoned to appear as the stick thin, scrawny but scrappy Steve Rogers, a likeable and determined young man desperate to fight for his country but hampered by his diminutive frame and [...]

2011 Reviews

August 8th, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Morning Glory
Rachel McAdams is a likeable and enthusiastic television producer desperate for a job when she is handed the poison chalice of turning round failing breakfast show Daybreak (titter titter). She attempts to save the show by blackmailing curmudgeonly veteran newsreader Harrison Ford to come onboard (sort of like Jeremy Paxman agreeing to host The [...]

Season of the Witch

August 8th, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

 

Nic Cage stars as a warrior during the Crusades who takes umbrage with the church leader’s policies. Choosing exile, he finds himself lead to a small town ravaged by the plague and becomes embroiled in a journey to deport the witch the townspeople have deemed responsible for this terrible curse. It becomes Cages role to [...]

Drive Angry

August 3rd, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

 
Drag (race) me to Hell….
 
Nic Cage stars as John Milton, a condemned man who escapes the fiery pits of Hell and makes his way to Texas to avenge his daughter’s death and stop an evil cult sacrificing his baby grand daughter at the next full moon.
Drive Angry is a riotous joyride right down Stupid Street [...]

The Tree of Life

August 1st, 2011 by alandunn | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then he created Man. And then some time later he created Brad Pitt and pretentious art house cinema…
 
 Set predominately in 1950’s suburban Texas, it revolves around Jessica Chastain as a hippy mother and Brad Pitt as a stern father to 3 young boys, the [...]