Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
August 22, 2003
There are those films in cinematic history that have redefined the way other films are made. The first talkie had silent film stars running for the hills. Snow White proved that a feature length animation can work. Jurassic Park spelt the end for the...
RoboCop Trilogy
August 16, 2003
In 1988 director Paul Verhoeven made his American debut with the violent futuristic actioner Robocop. Dripping with satire and gore in equal measure, Robocop became an instant cult hit. Verhoeven seemed to remake Robocop every few years with a series...
The Karate Kid Trilogy
August 10, 2003
It is with a skip and a smile that I delve once again into a decade from which I never left and pay tribute to a series of films so fiendishly Eighties that their very mention brings back memories of headbands and Duran Duran. Ok, I don’t know where...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
August 5, 2003
Since the birth of DVD the format has spread faster than CD audio, due to some hard-core film fanatics, some large scale marketing campaigns and the odd fantastic DVD release. Lethal Weapon 4 showed us what DVD was capable of in the shape of extra features,...
Exit Wounds
July 29, 2003
The biggest money making genre in film history has always been the action movie, with Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Van Damme leading the way. Here we’re going to look at the greatest action star to ever throw away his badge and be told he’s...
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
July 23, 2003
A long time ago in a cinema far, far away Star Wars Episode II was released. It has now made the arduous journey to DVD, and the circle is complete. It’s cool to knock success, it happens all the time. The media build up a person, raving about how...
Spider-Man
July 19, 2003
My Spider sense is tingling, so without further ado we present the astonishing, the amazing… Human Spider? So Peter Parker had a few teething problems with his Spidey gig and it took some improv from a wrestling announcer to come up with the Spider-Man...
The Scorpion King
June 30, 2003
Dust off that loin cloth, string that mighty bow and rub on that baby oil – WWE Superstar The Rock stars in yet another Mummy spin-off, The Scorpion King. Not since Schwarzenegger in True Lies back in 1994 has Hollywood had a decent, blockbusting...
The One
June 25, 2003
Daz settles down to watch a film where people battle it out with each other with the winner absorbing the other’s power, and the line ‘There can be only one’ is uttered. That’s right, it’s Jet Li in ‘The One’....
Jurassic Park III
June 15, 2003
‘There is absolutely no force on this earth that would get me onto that island’ proclaimed Alan Grant when asked if he would travel to the island of Isla Sorna to study the habits of raptors up close. We all know he will, it’s just a...
