Donnie Darko
September 30, 2003
A hit at Sundance last year, Donnie Darko arrives here with a highly deserved buzz of anticipation but bafflingly limited cinema release. On paper the setup sounds cheesy – Messed up teen sees giant bunny rabbit who predicts end of the world –...
Near Dark
September 28, 2003
The year 1987 was kind to horror film lovers, producing a double-shot of vampire thrillers: The Lost Boys and Near Dark. The former’s MTV-friendly soundtrack, coupled with then heartthrobs Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland, resulted in the latter’s...
Star Trek: Nemesis
September 25, 2003
It’s time to boldly go once more where only the bald critic Daz will tread, so strap on those phasers and head on out to the Neutral Zone as we look at the tenth Star Trek; Star Trek: Nemesis. It’s long since been common knowledge that Star...
The A-Team: Volume 1
September 23, 2003
For those of you that grew up in the eighties with shows like Knight Rider, Street Hawk and Airwolf you’ll know that there was only one T.V. show really worth watching. It was about four fugitives from justice, in a black van and it starred Mr....
Half Past Dead
September 22, 2003
It’s time once again to let Daz loose on another offering from the Portly One, Steven Seagal. The film is Half Past Dead and what’s the betting that old Stevie plays a cop? Well actually it’s a FBI agent, and he goes undercover. The...
The Mummy Returns
September 20, 2003
Finally the Rock has come back to DVD! Well, this film may have been sold on the appearance of the Rock, but in fact his involvement with the whole thing is pretty fleeting. The Mummy Returns is the sequel to the summer ’99 blockbuster: The Mummy....
Miracle
September 20, 2003
In 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team achieved what many, at the time, thought impossible. They beat the seemingly invincible Soviet hockey team and went on to capture the Gold Medal. Miracle (2004) attempts to recreate those incredible times and the...
Jump London
September 18, 2003
This DVD documentary tells the story of how a new and up-and-coming urban sport influence has spread from a small sub-burb of Paris (called Lisses) to England’s capital, London. The sport itself is called “free-running”, and the person...
Long Time Dead
September 15, 2003
What an utterly incompetent piece of absolute garbage, can someone please tell me how movies like this get made? On my Episode 1 rating (You know how bad Episode 1 is? Well I now rate movies as to how long they take me to get restless, bored and angry...
South West 9
September 12, 2003
South West 9 was made by the same company as Human Traffic, which although itself not really much of a movie is emerging as one of the better British flicks of recent times, which shows you just how bad most British films are. But Human Traffic, I feel,...
