True Romance
November 18, 2003
In the early nineties director Tony Scott was given two scripts to read by a young new screenwriter, one of them was True Romance and according to Scott it was “one of the fullest and most accomplished scripts that I’d ever read”. Jump...
Crime Story
November 17, 2003
Fresh from the success of Miami Vice in the mid-1980’s, Michael Mann used his powerful clout to produce a new TV show entitled, Crime Story. It was a pet project that he developed with good friend, Chuck Adamson. Like Vice, Crime Story was a cop...
Eight Legged Freaks
November 17, 2003
Small Arizona town invaded by monsters, with a bunch of unwitting heroes sent in to save the day. Cue outrageous deaths of cute animals and dimwitted humans. No, this isn’t Tremors, but a similarly themed tongue-in-cheek B movie this time concerning...
Sweet Home Alabama
November 16, 2003
Hold on to your hats, brush down your denims, and get those cowboy boots out of the closet, cos the South is back! Yes it’s time for another movie from our friends in the Deep South, with their delightful accents and standard Rom Com fare. Melanie...
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
November 14, 2003
What began as a small, autobiographical play about her rigorously traditional Greek family accepting her non-Greek boyfriend into the fold has now become the highest grossing independent film of all time. Initially driven by good ol’ word-of-mouth,...
Daredevil
November 12, 2003
The superhero genre is one that is ideally suited for the transition to the big screen, full of larger than life colourful characters with classic good versus evil struggles. Recently there has been a renaissance in these films & the latest hero to...
Nixon
November 11, 2003
Nixon (1995) was initially available only in a DVD with minimal extras. Recently, Stone has revisited his entire canon with special edition treatments. Nixon was the last hold-out and has finally received a proper two-disc Collector’s Edition complete...
Bad Taste
November 9, 2003
In 1987, filmmaker Peter Jackson made an impressive feature film debut with Bad Taste, a 90-minute “splatstick” spoof of alien invasion movies that became New Zealand’s answer to Sam Raimi. Shot on weekends over three years for only $11,000,...
City of God
November 7, 2003
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was being chased by a horde of young Brazilian gangsters as shown in the opening scene of the excellent City Of God. Set in the mean streets of a Brazilian slum this superb movie is a stunning, intense, gripping,...
Dog Soldiers
November 6, 2003
Being a huge fan of the John Landis horror An American Werewolf in London I was very keen to see Dog Soldiers. Another werewolf movie shot in the UK using quality English actors was a prospect too good to miss. It would be gritty, dark and not afraid...
