[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00E20372C][/pullquote] Films, as a medium, often invite you to suspend your disbelief about events, characters and stories that are sometimes beyond the realms of understanding or possibility. These can be fantasy, science fiction or comic-book in nature, and … [Read more...]
Review: How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005PV2R3C][/pullquote] How to Train Your Dragon is a film loosely based on the first in a series of books written by Cressida Cowell. Upon release it because Dreamworks Animations fifth most successful release behind all of the Shrek films. Thee was some concern just … [Read more...]
Review: Avatar (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003R0KOUQ][/pullquote] In 1997, James Cameron smashed the all-time box office record, with multi-Academy Award-winning mega-hit Titanic. He has been known throughout his career for making trail-blazing movies. His incredible work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day showed … [Read more...]
Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007N0IJGC][/pullquote] Director David Yates and Warner Brothers Studios decided to split the 7th and final instalment of the Harry Potter franchise into two films so as to give the series the send-off they felt it deserved¦ and probably to extend the life of the … [Read more...]
Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007N0IJGC][/pullquote] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth instalment in the popular franchise and marks the penultimate story before the heart-breaking finale. In the lead-up to release of the book, J.K Rowling had promised fans that a major … [Read more...]
Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007N0IJGC][/pullquote] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is fifth instalment in the franchise, based on the longest book in the series, this is one of the shortest films. Clocking in at just over 2 hours, a vast majority of the source material is cut in order … [Read more...]
Review: The Calcium Kid (2004)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0002SD0DE][/pullquote] 2003 was a big year for Orlando Bloom. He was one of the leads in breakout smash-hit Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, starred in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, which swept the Oscars and had recently been signed … [Read more...]
Review: The Replacements (2000)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00005B75T][/pullquote] The Replacements was released in November 2000. The previous 18 months had seen American football-themed films Any Given Sunday, Remember the Titans and Varsity Blues released to mix responses critically and commercially. It seemed that the … [Read more...]
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007N0IJGC][/pullquote] It is well known among fans of the Harry Potter series that the end of the Goblet of Fire is the turning point in the series. The events of the graveyard scene change the action away from the slightly jovial adventure mysteries of the first 3 … [Read more...]
Review: Elizabethtown (2005)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000BKTAYQ][/pullquote] Romantic comedies are some of the more obviously and recognisably formulaic genres in film. They inevitably star a good-looking man and woman, who fall in love after a series of often slapstick and overblown events. Where comic book and action … [Read more...]