[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00I8DV76C][/pullquote] Fond memories of Hammer Horror generally involve the ever-old Peter Cushing desperately tilting against every Christopher Lee shaped windmill to spring from the pages of supernatural literature. Indeed, their characterisations of Van Helsing … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005HNV2OS][/pullquote] With the first two instalments of the prequel trilogy complete and the final three established almost two decades before, a lot of the basic plot elements of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was already known. We knew that Anakin … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005HNV2OS][/pullquote] Three years after the release of the much-maligned The Phantom Menace, George Lucas released Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones in hopes of gathering back some of his lost fans. Despite commercial success, Episode I had left a bad … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005HNV2OS][/pullquote] When Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was released in 1977, it was hailed as an instant science fiction classic. Commercially and critically successful, it was part of the reason for the sudden popularity of sci-fi films in the late 1970s. … [Read more...]
Review: Gasland (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004CSKCT0][/pullquote] Nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy in 2011, Gasland documents the effect that extracting natural gas from the earth using hydraulic fracturing, or ˜fracking', has on the surrounding water supply and those that depend on it. … [Read more...]
Review: Final Destination 5 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0050GLO2W][/pullquote] The original Final Destination was released in 2000 and proved to be a popular low-budget horror centered around the premise that a group of people escape a catastrophe after one has a premonition, so death starts claiming their lives in … [Read more...]
Review: The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B001O6R2T6][/pullquote] When The Inbetweeners was launched on E4 in 2008, it became something of a cult hit. Viewing figures were so strong for a non-terrestrial channel that it was immediately commissioned for a second series and bumped up to Channel 4's main … [Read more...]
Review: Norwegian Wood (2010, Japan)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004TFCVUY][/pullquote] Before beginning my review of Norwegian Wood, I should say up front that I'm a huge fan of the novel it is based on, written by Haruki Murakami. It's inevitable that this should influence my view of the film and it would be pointless to try to … [Read more...]
Review: Conan the Barbarian (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00505QA40][/pullquote] In 1932 Robert E. Howard created the most famous and long-lasting barbarian in literary history. Conan the Barbarian was originally made into a film in 1982 as a vehicle for up-and-coming movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. This reboot of the … [Read more...]
Review: One Day (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00527QYL0][/pullquote] Based on a book by David Nicholls, One Day focuses on Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) as two friends and examines their relationship on July 15 each year from 1988 to 2011. After meeting on graduation night and almost having sex, … [Read more...]