London Has Fallen 2016 THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK (but it is still more interesting than this nonsense) Director: Babak Najafi Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK … [Read more...]
Review: Lucy (2014)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00LDYOXHS][/pullquote] Luc Besson has had a difficult few years. His most recent film as director, The Family, was a critical and commercial dud, while the Taken franchise on which he's a producer saw considerable diminished returns with its second instalment. … [Read more...]
Review: Transcendence (2014)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00K76Q592][/pullquote] Based on a script that comes from the infamous blacklist of best un-produced films in Hollywood, featuring an all-star cast and marking the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan's long-time cinematographer Wally Pfister, Transcendence has all … [Read more...]
Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B008JARIIA][/pullquote] Hype for new films is a wonderful thing, it allows us to look forward to certain releases and allows us to create marquee events around the release of big-name films. Too much hype can be damaging however. 2012 saw the release of each of these … [Read more...]
Review: Batman Begins (2005)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B008JARIIA][/pullquote] The Batman franchise has always been reasonably profitable for Hollywood. The original film incarnation Batman, released in 1989, was very successful and lead to three sequels, each critically worse than its predecessor. By the time the fourth … [Read more...]
Review: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B001QXZ7SA][/pullquote] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was no bigger film star than Kevin Costner. He has made his name with films like Field of Dreams and The Untouchables, before he started to produce massive commercial smash hits like Dances with Wolves … [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...]