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,...
Resident Evil
November 3, 2003
Mouths were watering for years before it was finally announced a big screen version of everybodies favourite horror survival game was in production with George Romero writing the script and Sarah Michelle Gellar rumoured to star. Sadly Romero was fired...
Signs
October 31, 2003
Signs is Shyamalan’s third major feature film (fourth if you count the fact that he wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little – yeah I couldn’t believe it either! – anyway back to Signs!) It centres on the Hess family, living on the...
Men In Black II
October 27, 2003
The 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld movie Men in Black was something of a surprise hit. With its dark Batman-esque looks and quirky comedy it became one of the biggest grossing films of the year and won a legion of fans. The fact that it wasn’t actually very...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3 Box Set
October 20, 2003
First off, if you’re not a fan, you should be. This is one of the defining TV shows of our generation. Second off, the DVDs are half the price in the US that they are in dear old Blighty. Drawback: We’re almost on season 6 but they’ve...
Highlander Season 1 Box Set
October 2, 2003
When it comes to Highlander and its legion of undaunted fans there most certainly can be only one, incarnation of Highlander that is – and it’s not the films. The T.V. series that started in 1992 and ran for 6 seasons saw Conner Macleod’s...
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 –...
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...
