[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00JKHCPNE][/pullquote] What a year 2014 is turning out to be. We've had the excellent Captain America: The Winter Soldier as well as having franchise installment X-Men: Days of Future Past and Guardians of the Galaxy in the pipeline. Sandwiched in between and in some … [Read more...]
Review: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
Adaptations of popular television shows into films are a reasonably rare occurrence these days, but even rarer are television films that later get a theatrical release. This was however the case for the Red Riding trilogy produced by Channel 4 that was so acclaimed that all three films were released in theatres in the US in 2010. Based on the four novels by David Peace, the Red … [Read more...]
Review: Never Let Me Go (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003SX0S30][/pullquote] Sci-fi has become a by-word for spaceships, galactic battles and funny-looking aliens. It is important to remember that some science fiction is just a careful interpretation of the world that we live in, but with some changes to the science and … [Read more...]