There are some films you can watch over and over again. The ones that you know most of the dialogue of, that you laugh at the jokes a minute before they are delivered on screen and you watch on TV every time they are shown, despite owning them on DVD. For me these films include the first two installments in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy…
The World’s End Trailer released
8 May 2013 by 4 Comments
It’s been a great couple of weeks for movie trailers. Literally the day after I posted my Top Ten Tantalising Trailers article the White House Down trailer arrived and it promises some great action with a sense of humour. It looks more likeable than Olympus has Fallen and exactly like the Die Hard in the White House it will clearly be known as. Today’s release of The World’s End trailer has really excited me…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
14 December 2012 by 2 Comments
It was almost inevitable that following the successful splitting of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two parts, future screen adaptations of novels would come in multiple installments. And so it came to pass almost immediately with Twilight: Breaking Dawn and the announcement that Peter Jackson’s cinematic portrayal of The Hobbit…
Wild Target
21 March 2012 by Leave a Comment
Jonathan Lynn wrote one of the greatest sit-coms in British TV history, Yes Minister and its follow-up Yes Prime Minister remain hysterically funny and surprisingly relevant three decades on from its debut. Lynn’s movie career has been a little more checkered…