Van Helsing
March 31, 2003
The veritable assault and battery that Universal Pictures marketing department have bestowed in recent weeks is now all abundantly clear. Realising the celluloid travesty they have on their hands the powers that be have invested as much money as possible...
The Last Samurai
February 19, 2003
The one-two punch of The Last Samurai (2003) and Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003) marks a surprising mini-resurgence of the samurai movie genre. When most people think of examples from this type of movie, the first ones that come to mind are Seven Samurai (1954)...
Interstate 60
August 3, 2002
Despite being the co-writer for a certain Delorian-related time-travel trilogy, Bob Gale had to fight tooth and nail to make his directorial debut with this wonderfully offbeat road movie. Frustrated at being unable to make his first choice of film, Gale...
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”...
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
May 1, 2002
After the phenomenal success of Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), a sequel was inevitable. However, due to complicated legal wranglings, another film was a long time coming. James Cameron passed on it and there were concerns that Arnold was too old...
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
April 13, 2002
Robert Rodriguez is a one-man film studio. He writes, edits, directs, scores, shoots, works on the production design and does the special effects on all of his movies. He’s a hometown boy who has always worked outside of Hollywood in Austin, Texas....
Peter Pan
February 22, 2002
The tenth screen version of J.M Barrie’s classic tale about the adventures of a boy who doesn’t want to grow up. Does a story so often retold…well, need to be told yet again? This is reported to be the closest adaptation of the book...
The Adventures of Indiana Jones
January 1, 2002
Finally, one of the holy grails for DVD fans has become available: the Indiana Jones trilogy has arrived. Each film has been given its own disc, featuring remastered video and audio, with a fourth disc of supplemental material assembled and produced by...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
December 3, 2001
Master and Commander is another of those films that lures would be cinema-stay-aways back into theatres, the kind of people normally put off by the bravado of big box office movies. Films like Gladiator and Titanic had this intangible quality also, as...
Escape from New York
December 1, 2001
Escape From New York (1981) is a slick, futuristic race against time. It was made for a small budget from then up-and-coming filmmaker, John Carpenter and went on to become a critical and commercial success. It also spawned a loyal fanbase and an inferior...
