[Movie -- / Day 318] With his first feature MOON, director Duncan Jones has created a marvellous piece of modern sci-fi that harks back to the glory days when plot was more important than the special effects budget. Don’t watch this movie and expect to see explosions and a triple-digit body count. Rather, watch it [...]

[Movie 300 / Day 317] NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is an indie comedy centering on the trials and tribulations of the titular character, admirably played by John Heder in a role that carried a severe risk of being typecast for the rest of his career. Napoleon is a slack-jawed, curly-haired misfit. He is bullied at school and [...]

[Movie 299 / Day 315] Ben Stone (Seth Rogen, at his best) is a stoner who with his stoner housemates is about to launch an ill-fated website. Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is a TV exec that gets her dream promotion to front of camera. During the ensuing celebration, she meets Ben, who, in a massive [...]

[Movie 298 / Day 314] I have a love/hate relationship with the Coen brothers. There’s no denying that they’re massively talented, but very often, the first time I see one of their movies, I dislike it. Only on repeat viewings do I tend to get into them and, ironically, their movies often end up being [...]

[Movie 297 / Day 313] Harrison Ford is Rusty Sabich, a prosecutor and the right hand man of Kindle County Prosecuting Attorney Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy). He is married and has a child. He’s also had an affair with his colleague Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi). Although the affair is over and his wife knows and [...]

[Movie 296 / Day 313] Ben Stiller’s latest comedy offering on DVD and bluray sees him reprising his role as Larry Daley, night watchman at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In this lacklustre sequel however, a couple of years have passed and Daley is now a successful entrepreneur/inventor, owner of his own company and [...]

[Movie 295 / Day 313] Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is an OAP living in a flat on a working-class estate somewhere in London. He, like most of the other residents, is terrorised by the local gang of youths that spend their days selling (and taking) drugs and committing various offences, usually violent. The situation has [...]

[Movie 294 / Day 312] Way back in 1983, when I was a mere 5 years old, we were on our yearly family holiday. I don’t remember where we were on holiday, or in fact, any details of the holiday at all apart from one abiding memory – my first trip to the cinema. We [...]