Donald Trump is perhaps best known for having hair that's more ridiculous than seems possible, refusing to believe that Barack Obama is American, and shouting You're fired! at hapless business idiots on The Apprentice. However, he is also extremely keen on golf, and making as much money as possible. … [Read more...]
Top Gun (1986) review by That Film Guy
When discussing iconic films of any decade there is a tendency to look at Oscar winners and highly recommended art house films that will set the tone for the following years. Then, there are films like Top Gun. Released in 1986 it became the highest-grossing film of the year and has seen its legend grow since then. Like many ˜cult' films Top Gun has an impeachable place in the … [Read more...]
Battle Los Angeles (2011) review by That Film Guy
Battle Los Angeles follows a group of US Marines who are thrown into combat with extraterrestrial invaders in the City of Angels. On August 12, 2011, large masses thought to be meteorites land in the oceans near several major coastal cities. The objects are discovered to be spacecraft containing hostile extraterrestrial life. Marines from Camp Pendleton arrive in Los Angeles, … [Read more...]
The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) review by That Film Geek
In 1967 Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an encounter with a supposed Sasquatch or Bigfoot - you'll have almost definitely seen the famous 'Patterson-Gimlin film' or at least a image taken from it. Whether you believe the footage is a fake or a genuine encounter with a cryptid (an animal unknown by science - cryptozoologists love to talk about Coelacanth, but it seems … [Read more...]
Croc (2007) review by That Film Geek
Croc is a made for TV film, (it's one of Syfy's Maneater series) which basically retreads the plot of Jaws substituting a huge crocodile for the huge shark and the East-coast tourist destination of Amity Island for a tourist location in Thailand, oh, and Robert Shaw for Michael Madsen. Croc begins with Jack (Peter Tuinstra), an American struggling to afford to keep a zoo open … [Read more...]
Rogue (2007) review by That Film Geek
A favourite of Syfy channel original films (see Mega Phyton vs. Gatoriod for an example), the giant crocodile monster sub-genre has two well-known and well-regarded standouts, 1980's Alligator (directed by Lewis Teague and written by John Sayles, who's satirical scripting was put to was equally good use a year later in The Howling) and 1999's Lake Placid (Directed by Steve … [Read more...]
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007, Japanese) review by That Film Dude
It's tough to know how to summarise Sukiyaki Western Django. It is, without question, one of the most singularly insane films going; it makes basically no sense and is wildly incoherent at the best of times, but it's so stylish and so entertaining in such a weird way that you can't help but really like it. … [Read more...]
Rocky (1976) review by That Film Guy
Rocky is one of the most iconic sports films of all time. A sleeper hit, it became the highest grossing film of 1976 and won the Oscar for Best film, as well as a writing Oscar for star Sylvester Stallone at the 49th Annual Academy Awards. It has spawned numerous sequels, all starring Stallone and is arguably the most recognisable sports film franchise of all time. Loosely … [Read more...]
Lincoln (2012) review by That Art House Guy
Steven Spielberg is one of the most admired and best loved directors in Hollywood, and undoubtedly one of the most influential people in the movie business. However, there is a suspicion that his powers could be on the wane, after a number of slightly underwhelming films in recent years such as War Horse and the best forgotten Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. … [Read more...]
Review: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty is "the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man," chronicling as it does the search by the United States of America for their 'Most Wanted' Osama Bin Laden. Following on from director Kathryn Bigelow's 2009 Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker, about bomb disposal experts in Iraq, Zero Dark Thirty shows a growing interest in US … [Read more...]