[Movie 308 / Day 327]
A highly unlikeable man, Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), leaves his life in London when he gets the opportunity to fulfill his ambitions and go write for a glossy celebrity magazine in New York. Hoping he’s been hired for his rapier wit and knack for bursting the bubble of the rich [...]

[Movie 307 / Day 326]
Michael Mann’s telling of the story of notorious American gangster John Dillinger, for me, ended up being much less than the sum of its parts. I mean, a director like Mann and two of the biggest names in Hollywood in Johnny Depp and Christian Bale doing a movie about a [...]

[Movie 306 / Day 325]
Poor girl accompanies her mother to Camp Rock, a summer camp for rich kids with ‘talent’, when her mother lands the job of camp cook. There, she lies in order to fit in with said rich kids, telling them her mother is an executive at some music TV channel they’ve [...]

[Movie 305 / Day 324]
Back in 1999, a couple of movies were released that blew me away. The first was THE MATRIX, which was quite unlike anything I’d seen before. It had the benefit of hype though, having been built up for months before it’s eventual launch. The other movie that blew [...]

[Movie 304 / Day 324]
The original ICE AGE was fun. It was the story of how an unlikely group of animals (a sloth, woolly mammoth, sabre toothed tiger) came to be friends and regard themselves as family. Unfortunately, ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN wasn’t nearly as good. The humour seemed to go [...]

[Movie 303 / Day 322]
At the moment, there seems to be a bit of a resurgence in zombie love, what with the excellent ZOMBIELAND and micro-budget COLIN causing much undead-based buzz, there is also a plethora of re-animated corpse based books around. The popularity of zombie movies, and indeed the quality of them, seems [...]

[Movie 302 / Day 321]
I have a confession to make. I was never a massive fan of the TV series Spaced. I have even bought the DVDs to retry it after seeing SHAUN OF THE DEAD for the first time because I thought I must be mistaken. But I wasn’t – I [...]

[Movie 301 / Day 319]
A barely above average Disney flick based on a true story, COOL RUNNINGS is all about Jamaica’s first bobsled team. Obviously, this is a situation that will naturally lean towards comedy because Jamaica doesn’t get snow! And bobsleds run on snow! I can almost see the execs rubbing [...]