Our list of the Top 30 Animated Movies of all Time. Do you Agree?.........The animated film genre was effectively launched in 1937. While there were feature-length animated films released before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it was this first Disney Classic that properly launched the genre to the Western world. The first princess and her seven short cohorts proved that … [Read more...]
Braveheart (1995) review by That Film Guy
Following on from The Man Without a Face, director and 80s megastar Mel Gibson turned his eye toward a historical epic about a Scottish legend; William Wallace in Braveheart. The film was a huge commercial and critical success earning $210m from a budget of $53m as well as winning the Best Director and Best Film Oscar at the 68th Academy Awards. … [Read more...]
Premium Rush (2012) review by That Film Guy
Premium Rush, as the title suggests is a high-octane chase film. Following protagonist Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a bike courier by trade as he negotiates New York City's dangerous roads on a bike with no gears and no breaks. He likes to live on the edge you see. Clearly bright, he is a former law student who opted for the adrenaline rush of cycling around the city at … [Read more...]
Pitch Perfect (2012) review by That Film Guy
A teen comedy with some attitude in the ilk of Mean Girls and Heathers, Pitch Perfect follows new college student Rebecca (Anna Kendrick) as she attends Barden college and finds herself being pressured by her father (a college dean) to try something new so signs up for the only all-female a capella group on campus, The Barden Bellas. Locked in an eternal battle against The … [Read more...]
Amour (2012, France) review by That Art House Guy
Amour is the latest film from Austrian writer / director Michael Haneke. Like many of Haneke's most successful movies, such as Hidden and The White Ribbon, it is set in France rather than his native Austria and features a French cast. Amour is a small-scale, claustrophobic film, set almost entirely in a single apartment “ that of Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne … [Read more...]
Howling: New Moon Rising (1995) review by That Film Geek
This film is dire. Really terrible. Do not watch it. Please. For your own sake. OK, I'll go on, I've suffered through this dross so you don't have to. … [Read more...]
Howling VI: The Freaks (1991) review by That Film Geek
Directed by Hope Perello, Howling VI: The Freaks has a strange style, it's in an unspecified time, which appears to be modern (at least for when the film was made) but with the style of 50's Americana permeating the film. The opening feels very much like a western, with the lone drifter coming into the dying town of Canton Bluff (droughts are causing tough times for the … [Read more...]
Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) review by That Film Geek
Clive Turner is back as co writer and producer of this instalment in the long-in-the-tooth (geddit?) Howling franchise, but this time he also stars as one of the main characters. In late 15th century Hungary a couple massacre the entire population of their castle, their family, servants, everyone, in a failed attempt to kill off a werewolf bloodline. … [Read more...]
So Undercover (2012) review by That Film Brat
Starring Miley Cyrus as a private detective, So Undercover is a film you have probably never heard of, and even if you had, if you are above the age of six you know to stay away. This is the kind of movie you really have to wonder what was going through the studio's head when they green-lit it. My guess is they already had a poster made, and then realised what a stupid idea … [Read more...]
Review: Home Alone (1990)
Despite dropping out the Christmas Zeitgeist in recent years, Home Alone remains one of the most quintessential festive films of recent times. It's simultaneous charm and subversive comedy belie the ˜Disneyfied' veneer to produce a film that not only engenders the fabled ˜Christmas Spirit', but one that spawned a decade-long infatuation with the genre of child-focused … [Read more...]