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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [Blu-ray]
Here’s the story so far: as a long-time Sherlock Holmes fan, I put off watching the first Robert Downey Jr. film for a long time, before finally seeing it a year later and surprising myself by finding it perfectly enjoyable. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Blu-ray, Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol [Blu-ray]
Once upon a time, wet bank holiday weekends were reserved for afternoons with James Bond. But these days there are plenty of pretenders to 007′s throne, and Mission: Impossible with its roots in the 1960s TV series is one of … Continue reading
The Thing (2011) [Blu-ray]
Does contain some implied spoilers. In one of the extras accompanying the Blu-Ray/DVD release of this film, one of the stars of this prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic sci-fi horror opines that there’s no point doing this film unless … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, John Carpenter, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, prequel, The Thing
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Titanic (1997)
Contains some spoilers, if one can ‘spoil’ a 15-year old film! With the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic firmly on the horizon (April 15, folks) it’s no surprise that we’re awash with various programmes and books marking … Continue reading
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Tagged Gloria Stewart, James Cameron, Julian Fellowes, Kate WInslet, Leo DiCaprio, Titanic
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011) [Blu-ray]
I’ve seen an article that reports that when Steven Spielberg was on the press tour in Europe for the Indiana Jones movies, a reporter put it to him that Jones was really just his grown-up version of Hergé’s Tintin, much … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Peter Jackson, steven spielberg, Tintin
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This Island Earth (1955)
Every now and then in the distant past when I was a lad, TV networks used to run seasons of classic science fiction films around 6pm in the evening. One of them was typically This Island Earth, a film that … Continue reading
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Tagged Faith Domergue, Forbidden Planet, Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, science fiction, This Island Earth
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Murder by Death (1976)
Murder by Death has a protected place in my memory that renders it forever immune to objective criticism. It is, I think, the first “proper” film I saw in the cinema (by which I mean one that wasn’t either a … Continue reading
Let Me In (2010) [Blu-ray]
Contains some spoilers, both for “Let Me In” and for the original Swedish film “Let The Right One In”. Let Me In is one of those films that it would be easy to despise on principle sight unseen, seeming as … Continue reading
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
I have a strange liking for The Castle of Cagliostro, the first feature animé film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animator who went on to co-found the legendary Studio Ghibli and to make the Oscar-winning Spirited Away … Continue reading
