Welcome to the Jungle
June 17, 2004
When a film changes titles from its production, to its release, you don’t think too much about it. Working titles are common, it happens. However, when a film changes title from its American release to its UK release, that’s a bad sign. It means the...
Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher
February 5, 2004
Based on the independent comic book of the same name, Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher (2004) is a fun, highly entertaining animated short film by a group of students from New York University. It is a loving homage to those old pulp serials (like Doc Savage)...
Thunderbirds: International Rescue Edition
December 24, 2003
MGM has wisely capitalized on the release of a brand new live-action movie of Thunderbirds by releasing the two classic Thunderbirds movies, Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968) in an attractive two-DVD set. The prints of both films have...
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
December 4, 2003
The best sequels have a way of improving on the original, and Chamber of Secrets succeeds in nearly every respect. It’s darker, funnier, more action-packed and the three leads are actually starting to act (witness Harry’s face/off at the end)....
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...
Die Another Day
October 13, 2003
Brosnan burst onto the big screen in the 1995 film Goldeneye, a film that reclaimed Bond as a force still to be reckoned with at the cinema. Sadly Brosnan and his films seem to get worse as they go along and those dizzy heights are long gone. The Bond...
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 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....
Back to the Future Trilogy Box Set
September 7, 2003
In 1985 the Spielberg produced Back to the Future became one of the greatest and most successful films of the decade, some may say that it is the defining movie of the Eighties, but it so nearly didn’t happen. Director Robert Zemeckis, as he explains...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
September 4, 2003
After watching Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Daz is convinced he is a hobbit, he may have the shabby clothes and really bad foot odour but his six foot plus frame suggests otherwise. Every once in a while a film comes along that redefines everything...
