Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut
May 23, 2006
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) was Ridley Scott’s costly epic about the Crusades that promptly flopped at the box office in North America. Clearly, the studio and Scott were hoping for another zeitgeist galvanizing response to this film like with Gladiator...
Aeon Flux: Special Collector’s Edition
May 13, 2006
Aeon Flux (2005) is a live-action adaptation of the critically-lauded animated T.V. show by Peter Chung. This movie was something of a gamble as the show only managed to spawn a small, but dedicated cult following. Now, comes along a big budget movie...
Kingdom of Heaven
January 13, 2006
There’s a moment in Kingdom of Heaven where our hero Balian asks his enemy Saladin what the city of Jerusalem is worth to him. “Nothing,” he replies. “Everything.” This paradox is the prevailing problem with the film itself;...
The Bourne Supremacy
July 27, 2005
Reading about The Bourne Supremacy, or indeed its predecessor The Bourne Identity, chances are you’ll hear the phrase ‘better than Bond’ any number of times and after the lacklustre outings of Pierce Brosnan (after Goldeneye anyway)...
Garage Days
December 6, 2004
Alex Proyas is known primarily for making big budget, high concept action films like The Crow (1994), Dark City (1998) and the recent I, Robot (2004). This is why his little seen Garage Days (2002) is something of a curious anomaly. It is a low-budget...
xXx
November 19, 2003
“From the makers of The Fast & the Furious”. Those words instilled fear in me that xXx was going to be one of the worst films I had ever seen, for the testosterone charged excuse for a film that was Fast & the Furious gave the word...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
May 12, 2002
Is there a film any more tedious than this one? Readers let me warn you, do not expect a wonderful, praising review of how marvellous and spectacular ‘The Return Of The King’ is, I do not use any phrases like, “this film is a masterpiece”...