[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000K14LTA][/pullquote] When Kingdom of Heaven was released in 2005, it was met with a thoroughly mixed reception from critics and the box office alike. A vast majority of criticism was levelled at the lack of depth in the story and the performance of the main lead … [Read more...]
Review: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B001DOM032][/pullquote] When it was released in 1994, The Shawshank Redemption, based on a Stephen King short story, was critically applauded, but cinema-goers seemed to have no interest in paying to see it. It was one of the larger Hollywood commercial flops, and … [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...]
Review: True Grit (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005DS0VMQ][/pullquote] The Coen Brothers' True Grit is the second adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Charles Portis in 1968. The original starred John Wayne and his performance as US Marshall Rooster Cogburn provided him with his only Academy Award. … [Read more...]
Review: Beastly (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00AC7PJIY][/pullquote] Beauty and the Beast is a French fairytale of a virtuous princess who falls in love with a hideously deformed beast and releases him from a curse. Beastly was originally a novel and now a film that retells the story and sets it in modern-day … [Read more...]
Review: Cedar Rapids (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0058HZTO2][/pullquote] Pardon my French, but you are full of bull-horn! comes the response from Cedar Rapids protagonist Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), and it is this line which encapsulates the whole film. Strangely it's a coming of age drama about a mid-30s insurance … [Read more...]