This film starts at a party in Manhatten where your are introduced to the characters and they are such a bunch of numbnuts that you are hoping they’ll all die quite violently. I suspect that this was planned by the writers so you are more or less braying for blood when the monster and his… Continue reading

Former college room mates Charlie and Alan meet up again by chance on a Manhattan street corner. Five years after losing his family on 9/11, Charlie has retreated from his life, and Alan is stunned to see the changes in his friend. Somewhat bored and dissatisfied with his own life Alan tries to help his… Continue reading

The reason I am writing this review, instead of Shaun, is that amazingly I stayed awake until the end and Shaun dropped off! A devoted couple are forced to spend one month apart when the wife admits herself into a care home as she is suffering from Alzheimer’s. But when her husband eagerly returns to… Continue reading

An extremely good film about a man (Robbie, played James McAvoy) who is accused and found guilty of rape based on a false testimony from his true loves (Cecilia, played by gorgeous, but thin, Keira Knightly) naive younger sister (Briony) and the impact this has on all their lives. A very well made film with… Continue reading

Five years after dumping his pregnant girlfriend Libby (the hot Thandie Newton) Dennis (Simon Pegg) tries to win her back from slimy new boyfriend, and prove himself to his doubting friends by competing against him in a marathon. Its an enjoyable film, nothing amazing, but they are all good in it and it does exactly… Continue reading

I can’t quite believe why this film was so well rated by critics from a number of film websites and magazines I regularly read. At the beginning it shows the outcome and in most cases it is the journey to the outcome that makes the film enjoyable but not with this film. It has got… Continue reading

George Clooney Plays Michael Clayton, a flawed character who is a fixer for a large legal firm who represent U-North a chemical company which is nearing the end of a multi million dollar lawsuit brought by people who have been poisoned by its pesticides. Clayton’s friend and colleague Arthur Edens who has represented U-North has… Continue reading

Watched this dead cool film last night. A lovely story of a Irish busker who meets a Czech flower seller who plays piano and their relationship as they spend a week performing, writing and recording their songs. This is not a typical love story (although they do fancy each other a bit) but more about… Continue reading

Anna, a midwife in a London hospital, finds a Russian-language diary on the body of Tatiana, a fourteen-year-old girl who dies in childbirth. Anna sets out to track down the girl’s family so that she can find a home for the dead mother’s baby girl. From the the dairy she finds out that the girl… Continue reading

A film about William Wilberforce and his campaign against slavery. It was pretty good with good performances by Michael Gambon and Albert Finney. It was difficult to get into it properly as the DVD kept jumping (Bring on downloads) but its definitely worth a watch. For me the scenes in the house of commons where… Continue reading

A small-time rancher (Christain Bale) agrees to hold a captured outlaw (Russel Crowe) who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. It was alright I suppose, I found some of it a bit unbelieveable and the ending was a… Continue reading

Really enjoyed this French film. At a secluded lake, Alexandre Beck’s wife, Margot is abducted and brutally murdered. Police suspicions first fall on Alex himself, but then a local serial killer is apprehended whose peculiar signatures have been found all over the crime scene. Case closed. Eight years later, a still grieving Alex receives one… Continue reading

We went on a hot date last night. Chris and Derek had Emma for the evening so we went for tea at the lemon tree in Colchester, I had a sort of posh Bangers and mash which was yummy. After tea we went to see “I am legend”, I thought it was really good, the… Continue reading

Finally got to watch this last night and it was really really funny. Pete: “Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn’t last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.” Brilliant 8/10 We were planning to go to the flicks to see “I am Legend” last night but poor old Derek… Continue reading