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 | About A Boy (Video)Sometimes a rut can feel like a hammock when we get stuck in one. - normAs far as Will Freeman (Grant) is concerned, he has the perfect life; he lives comfortably, if not extravagantly, on the income provided by a certain kind of inheritance. On the surface, at least, he's happy. Admittedly, however, he's the very epitome of 'shallow,' who makes a conscious and concerted effort at avoiding any commitment in relationships, or more ... |
 | The Heartbreak Kid (Film)Crude humour..not for me anyways - normThe Farrelly brothers have had a successful history, but their best work was past them a long time ago. Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary are among the two funniest comedies of all-time, and put the brothers at the peak of stardom. However, their track record afterwards is a heavily mixed bag; you find your underrated gems (Fever Pitch) and more ... |
 | Blood Diamond (Film)spare a night to watch this,its worth it - normSet against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer - an ex mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform more ... |
 | 300 (Video)epic graphics showcase - normBased on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" brings us back to 480 B.C and the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta is said to have led his army against the awesome might of the advancing Persians; while his wife back in Sparta attempts to rally support for her husband. But facing insurmountable odds, their valour and more ... |
 | Enchanted (Film)will appeal to all - normOnce upon a time in the kingdom of Andalasia, a beautiful young maiden named Giselle (Adams) lives in a cottage in the forest. But before she can marry the dashing Prince Edward (Marsden), Giselle is sent tumbling down a magical well - and finds herself in the non-animated, extremely disenchanted world of modern-day New York City. There, she befriends a more ... |
 | Stardust (Film)A wonderful fantasy tale of action, adventure, and love!, - normA young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his villageOn his odyssey, Tristan finds the star, which has transformed into a striking girl named more ... |
 | harry* (Film)true potter fans will prefer the book - normAfter returning to Hogwarts to begin his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter discovers that much of the wizarding world, including the Ministry of Magic, is in denial about Lord Voldemort's return. The Order of the Phoenix, a group sworn against Voldemort, is using its vast array of wizards and witches magical abilities to combat Voldemort. Cornelius more ... |
 | Dreamgirls (Film)classic Hollywood musical - normBased on the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls tells the story of three young women desiring to become pop stars and the road that brings them to the top. Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., (Foxx) a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of 18-year-olds, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B more ... |
 | Night At the Museum (Film)Classic family fare - normLarry Daley (Stiller) is a complete loser who can't hold down a job. Unable to handle his son's disappointment at his imminent eviction he takes a job as night watchman in the Museum of Natural History. However; this seemingly easy job turns out to be a wild ride when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to more ... |
 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Film)not Sandlers finest moment - normChuck Levine (Sandler) and Larry Valentine (James) are two fire fighters. They are good friends. However, Larry is a widower and Chuck is single. When civic red tape prevents him from naming his two kids as his pension beneficiaries Larry needs Chuck to claim to be Larry's domestic partner on some city forms. They think it will be easy because nobody will more ... |
 | Once (Film)a film to cherish - normA modern-day musical about a Dublin busker who ekes out a living playing guitar and repairing vacuum cleaners for his dad's shop who immigrant meets a young Czech immigrant who sells roses on the same street, She likes his song, and what's more…she has a broken vacuum cleaner! They soon find themselves playing music together in a nearby music store more ... |
 | Lucky You (Video)poorly scripted - normLas Vegas, Huck Cheever (Bana) is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer(Barrymore), an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. more ... |
 | The Pursuit Of Happyness (Video)memorable - normBased on a true story Pursuit of Happyness tells the story of Chris Gardner, a struggling salesman in San Francisco in the early 1980's. A man with big dreams for his family, but living hand to mouth he invests heavily in a little needed Bone Density Scanner. The white elephant in the family breaks them financially and life goes from bad to worse for our more ... |
 | Severance (Video)get me out of here - normA team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe goes horribly wrong for the sales division of the multi-national weapons company Palisade Defence when they become the victims of a group of crazed killers who will stop at nothing to see them dead. That sums up the plot nicely. People seem to just settle for very mediocre films at the moment. Sure more ... |
 | Monster-In-Law (Video)don't expect much - normAfter years of looking for Mr. Right, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini (Lopez) finally finds the man of her dreams, Kevin Fields (Vartan), only to discover that his mother, Viola (Fonda), is the woman of her nightmares. A recently fired news anchor who is afraid she will lose her son the way she has just lost her career, Viola determines to scare off her son's more ... |
 | 50 First Dates (Video)Very Sweet - normHenry Roth (Sandler) lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore). Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feels the start of a serious relationship occurring. Approaching Lucy the next day, Henry is confused when Lucy fails to recognise him. This is more ... |
 | 8 Mile (Video)not perfect but a decent flick - norm"8 Mile features controversial rapper Eminem in his first starring role in a film loosely based on his life growing up in Detroit. Eminem plays Jimmy Smith, Jr. a.k.a. "Rabbit", a young man who is struggling to make things better for himself through "battles", which are free styling rap contests that are usually held at a local more ... |
 | Click (Video)Do yourself a favour..hit STOP - normMichael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he more ... |
 | I Robot (Video)Where are we headed? - normIt's the year 2035, and robots are now everyday objects programmed to live with and work for their human owners. These robots have three laws integrated into their system. One, they cannot harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, they must do whatever they're told by a human being as long as such orders don't more ... |
 | The Incredible Hulk (Film)Almost incredible! - normIn this new (and most definitely improved) Hulk we find scientist Bruce Banner, living in shadows, scouring the planet for an antidote to the Gamma radiation that made him what he is. But the warmongers who dream of abusing his powers won't leave him alone, nor will his need to be with the only woman he has ever loved, Betty Ross. Upon returning to more ... |
 | In Bruges (Video)quality stuff - normWith an average of 1.18 'fucks' per minute and a body count of six “In Bruges” is not for the faint hearted. Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a job goes badly wrong, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to their local surroundings. Bruges is a picturesque tourist trap built around the oldest and best more ... |
 | I Am Legend (Film)will is great; pity bout the CGI - normThis film was a long time in the making with Warner Bros owning the rights to Matheson's novel since the 1970s. First attempted with the Omega Man (1971), I am Legend tells the story of Dr Robert Neville, the last man left in the ruins of New York City (and possibly the world) after a terrible biochemical disease has wiped out most of humanity and left more ... |
 | Away From Her (Film)the ties that bind - normPolleys directorial debut sees her adapt Munro's short story “A Bear Came over the Mountain” onto the big screen. The story centres on an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's (Christie)"forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's more ... |
 | The Painted Veil (Film)Simply beautiful - normThis is the third film adaptation of Maugham's 1925 novel of the same name. This fact in itself is a testament to the strength of the source material. The central characters in this timeless love story are Dr. Walter Fane (Norton), a middle class doctor, and Kitty (Watts), the upper class girl he fell for and convinced to marry him. The couple relocate to more ... |
 | The Illusionist (Video)mesmerising - normSet in Vienna at the turn of the last century the movie opens simply with Eisenheim (Norton), the great illusionist of his time, sitting silently on stage. The film will capture viewer's attention here and will not lose it until the very end. When Eisenheim recognises the Duchess von Teschen (Biel) as his childhood sweetheart, now on the arm of the Crown more ... |
 | Catch and Release (Film)forgetable thank god - normAfter the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray Wheeler (Garner) finds comfort in the company of his friends: light-hearted and comic Sam(Smith), hyper-responsible Dennis(Jaeger), and, oddly enough, his old childhood buddy Fritz(Olyphant), an irresponsible playboy whom she'd previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets more ... |
 | 13 Going On 30 (Video)Garners movie - normIts 1987 and geeky Jenna (Garner) wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she's flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be. In a story that has apparently more ... |
 | Along Came A Spider (Video)and the plot thickens - normBased on the book by James Patterson and a partner to the film Kiss the Girls(1997).Morgan Freeman stars as the detective/psychologist Alex Cross. Unlike "Kiss the Girls," "Along Came a Spider" lacks suspense and thrills because there is little tension in its structure. We already know the killer's identity-but do we? The movie certainly more ... |
 | Alvin and the Chipmunks (Film)nostalgic fun - normAs a fan of the chipmunks back in their TV days of the 80's I was actually looking forward to seeing this. That being said I wouldn't admit it so brought my niece and nephew as a ruse! The story was simple. The tree house in which the singing trio lived was cut down for Christmas and through a series of events they end up with struggling singer Dave (Lee). more ... |
 | There Will Be Blood (Video)will go down as a classic in time - normLoosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (1927) the film follows Daniel Plainview, a struggling silver miner at the start of the 20th century, who through a stroke of good fortune hits oil. The charismatic "oil man" makes himself rich through hard work, selling himself to communities as a family man-courtesy of the orphaned HW as his son. The more ... |
 | The Dark Knight (Film)Slaughter is the best medicine - normWhat a show! Completely lives up to the hype, which is unusual for a blockbuster. I think all Batman fans should be thanking the Nolan brothers profusely for taking Batman from the gutter of the mid 90s and bringing the viewers a film worthy of the comics of old. The scene opens with a heist on a mob bank in downtown Gotham overseen by the psychotic Joker. more ... |
 | Mamma Mia! (Film)doesn't transfer to film so well! - norm20 year old Sophie (Seyfried) is preparing to marry her boyfriend Sky (Cooper) at her mother's hotel on an island in Greece. She seemingly has it all; a carefree life, loving boyfriend and happy friends but one thing has been missing all her life; a father. Her only wish now is to be given away by her dad at her wedding. By reading her mother's diary she more ... |
 | WALL-E (Film)whats not to like - normThe latest offering from Disney and Pixar in the animated movie genre, is, in my opinion, a resounding success. Set 700 years in the future, Earth has been abandoned by humans and only Wall-e (short for waste allocation load lifter-earth class) remains to clear up the mess. It's a credit to the direction and animation of the film that although there is more ... |
 | Marie Antoinette (Film)not for me - normIf i had my chance over i'd give this one a miss. The story is one that we all have some degree of familiarity with, depending on how hard we listened at school...the young and naive austrian archduchess is forced into marriage, for political reasons, to louis of france. the marriage is one of huge speculation as she giddies about enjoy the social scene and more ... |
 | Shrek the Third (Film)Time to call it a day - normThis instalment really just shows how Hollywood love to milk a cash cow.I love animated features, and among them Shrek reigns top of the heap in my mind. To this day I quote songs and jokes from the first movie. With trepidation I watched the second and was blown away…they did it a sequel that almost matched the original. But this, at first it looked more ... |
 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Film)a visual treat - normTo begin I might just say I loved this series as a child and the tales are timeless. I enjoyed the first movie instalment of the chronicles and even though they are not staying true to the books I was still looking forward to this 2nd film…it didn't disappoint! The locations in New Zealand, The Czech Republic and Poland looked absolutely stunning and more ... |
 | Music and Lyrics (Film)pop film - normThis film doesn't punch above its weight and doesn't claim to be anything that its not. Its cheesy, tongue in cheek and funny. I think Hugh Grant was at his best in About a Boy but still does the soppy leasing man thing well. The story centres on an 80's pop has been Fletcher (Grant) whose comeback relies on him writing a song for pop princess Cora, who is more ... |
 | Definitely, Maybe (Film)Definitely more than maybe - normThis is actually much better than the usual rom-com garbage we are fed. When his daughter Maya (Breslin) returns home from school with some relationship questions, her father Will (Reynolds) decides to tell her about three of the leading ladies in his life. The film then proceeds through a series of flashbacks to Wills youth and the three defining loves of more ... |
 | The Assassination of Jesse James (Film)sensitivity abounds - normThe film is a beautifully told story of a young mans obsession with the famous outlaw. Robert Ford (Affleck) has collected cutting on Jesse James (Pitt) since he was a young boy and knows everything there is to know about him. His overzealous admiration leads him to ingratiate himself to Jesse's gang as we follow the narrated story through the final winter more ... |
 | Gone Baby Gone (Film)amazing and thought provoking - normI hadn't heard much about this film before going to see it and I absolutely loved it. The story is simple: a little girl is abducted as her mother is out drinking with her loser boyfriend. The childs aunt and uncle solicit the help of local private investigator Patrick Kenzie (Affleck) and his partner (Moynihan) to augment the search run by head of police more ... |
 | What Happens in Vegas.. (Film)loses the plot somewhere... - normThis starts out as quite a fresh movie. An uptight, overplanner Joy (Diaz) heads to Vegas as her life falls apart when her boyfriend accidentaly dumps her in front of all their friends. At the same time Jack (Kutcher) gets fired by his dad and also, you guessed it, heads for Vegas. Due to a hotel error they end up in the same room. After a night of drunken more ... |
 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Video)Doesn't equal the series - normas a kid growing up i was turtle obsessed-the pencil case, teddies, books etc so imagine my delight at the release of this movie and being able to share my childhood cartoon fav with my niece and nephew. Now I cant't fault the animation which is top notch and in fairness the quips and one liners are in keeping with the original turtles....but what happened more ... |
 | The Holiday (Film)black is best - normmy friend absoloutely loves the hallmark christmas holiday romance of this movie but really its just jaded emotional pap. similar to maeve binchys tara road two women, who for their own reasons want to get away from their own lives arrange a house swap. so Iris(Winslet) sets off from her picturesque cottage in england to the mansion of Amanda(Diaz) in LA. more ... |
 | Notes On A Scandal (Film)scandalous - normthis film dissappointed me I'm afraid. i had heard alot of the hype surrounding it, and given the taboo subject it broaches of student teacher relations i was expecting a sizzling drama. instead what i got was an hour and a half of insight into the lonely and obsessed Barbara Covett(Dench). while Dench has always been given the cynical old woman more ... |
 | Apocalypto (Video)beautiful and tragic - normnot in my movie going memory have i seen a film so powerfully brutal and savage portrayed so beautifully. this film is an epic as only Mel can deliver. Set in the times of the Mayan empire the story simply follows JaguarPaw(Youngblood) as he makes a bid for escape after being taken for sacrifice purposes when his village is plundered. It is a tribute to more ... |
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