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Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II

(1 star)9 Jul 2009

If you’re a man of a certain age, chances are The Wild Geese made a lamentably unPC impact on your youth. So too, it’s likely that you found your way to the sequel, seven years later in 1985, but you don’t remember much about it. Here’s why: Peter…

Year One: 5 caveman films

Year One: 5 caveman films

25 Jun 2009

One Million Years BC (1940/1966) Hal Roach and star Victor Mature created the template for many future cinematic evocations of the prehistoric era with their original tale of exile, volcanoes and gigantic beasts. Don Chaffey’s now iconic remake gave the…

Also Released - Film

25 Jun 2009

Blood: The Last Vampire (18) 91min Vampire hunter Saya (Gianna Jun) is unrivalled, but that’s because she is half bloodsucker herself – on her mother’s side. Will she go to the dark side or will she carry on fighting for the mortals? Popular anime gets…

Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation

(3 stars)28 May 2009

With a track record that includes Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and the straight-to-DVD We Are Marshall, McG was always going to have his work cut out proving he was the right man to reboot the Terminator franchise. Now his judgment day has arrived…

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

DVD Box Set Round-up

28 May 2009

Film historian, writer, avant-garde underground filmmaker and occultist Kenneth Anger is one of the more interesting individuals to have emerged from California’s Santa Monica hills in the second half of the 20th century. Anger and his work were…

Fighting

Fighting

(2 stars)14 May 2009

(15) 105min Dito Montiel’s debut film, the semi-autobiographical A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, was a little-seen but extremely promising coming-of-age story set on the backstreets of Astoria, New York. Montiel has followed it up with…

12 Rounds

12 Rounds

(2 stars)14 May 2009

(12A) 108min With 12 Rounds, Speed producer Mark Gordon and Die Hard 2 director Renny Harlin demonstrate just how completely adrift they are from popular culture. A so-bad-it’s-faintly-amusing trawl through a rag-bag of action-movie cliches…

Star Trek

Star Trek

(4 stars)30 Apr 2009

ACTION/ADVENTURE Star Trek is something that didn’t appear to need rebooting. The show debuted in 1966 and over the next 40 odd years, we’ve had 79 episodes of William Shatner, several TV spin-off series (The Next Generation and Voyager etc) and ten…

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

(3 stars)16 Apr 2009

(15) 97min Much like Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine provided the vital tough-guy ingredient in the popular X-Men movies. Laconic and individualistic, the appealing Wolverine stood head and shoulders above the…

Film - Also Released

16 Apr 2009

Crank 2: High Voltage (18) 95min ●●● Picking up where Crank ended, Chev Chelios (Jason Stratham) is kidnapped by a gang of Chinese medics who attempt to remove his organs. They get as far as replacing his heart with a temporary electronic one before he…

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