Since the release of the first computer game, Pong in 1972 there have been a raft of new and ingenious ways to play virtual games. Now that games are reaching 4 decades in age there has been a growing movement among a certain generation to play ˜retro games.' Disney, drawing from the popularity of retro games, has created Wreck-It Ralph, an animated film that supposes that … [Read more...]
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) review by That Film Guy
Films can be predictable things. Romantic comedies as a genre are one the most formulaic there is. Guy meets girl, they hit it off, some small obstacles are placed in their way, they overcome them, usually involving a big gesture and the live happily ever after. Then, every once in a while a romantic comedy comes along that goes a different route. A more realistic route. These … [Read more...]
Rubber (2010) review by That Film Klown
Rubber tells the story of car tyre called Robert (yes, you read that right). Left lying in the Californian desert, Robert inexplicably comes to life and quickly develops a penchant for causing objects “ from beer bottles to human heads “ to explode. … [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...]