[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007463II4][/pullquote] In Time, a film written and directed by Andrew Niccol almost didn't make it to cinemas. After the film finished production, an author called Harlan Ellison launched a suit against Niccol and production company New Regency over claims of … [Read more...]
Review: Source Code (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005IVLVAO][/pullquote] Source Code is the second feature film directed by Duncan Jones, who has, sadly, dropped his given name of Zowie Bowie. Folllowing his critical success with Moon, Jones was given a bigger budget and a Hollywood A-lister (Jake Gyllenhaal) to be … [Read more...]
Review: Star Trek (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00450AG9G][/pullquote] Star Trek is as recognisable an entertainment brand as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or Twilight. It has fans with a passion to match anything that the other brands have to offer too. Starting as a television show in 1966 it charts the … [Read more...]
Review: Real Steel (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B006DVUULE][/pullquote] Sylvester Stallone has a lot to answer for. His most famous creation, Rocky, has become the archetypal narrative for the majority of sports films ever since its release in 1976. Now whenever Hollywood wants a vehicle for one of their … [Read more...]
Review: Alien (1979)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B006MGB31Q][/pullquote] One must wonder what crossed the mind of Nobel Winning Edward Teller when he developed his thermo-nuclear bomb, after all it's not like the atomic bomb failed in its simplistic remit of blowing shit up. Clearly though; there comes a time when … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005HNV2OS][/pullquote] By 1983 George Lucas' Star Wars saga was as recognisable as any film in history. The staggering commercial success of A New Hope and the critical success of The Empire Strikes Back meant that Star Wars: Episode VI “ Return of the Jedi was one … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005HNV2OS][/pullquote] Following on from the staggering success of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, George Lucas released the sequel Star Wars: Episode IV - The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Aware that the previous film had created a galaxy of characters that had … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005HNV2OS][/pullquote] In 1977 the cultural world was shaken to its foundations by a film that changed the zeitgeist for summer blockbusters, science fiction and even entertainment as whole. George Lucas, a man notoriously anti-studio, took a risk. It was a big risk. … [Read more...]
Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00APGRMRI][/pullquote] 2008 saw the release of a Star Wars spin-off Star Wars: The Clone Wars. An animation based on the popular cartoon show, the action takes place between Episodes II and III. Using a unique animation style with heavily-textured, almost wooden … [Read more...]
Review: Quatermass II (1957)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00I8DV76C][/pullquote] Fond memories of Hammer Horror generally involve the ever-old Peter Cushing desperately tilting against every Christopher Lee shaped windmill to spring from the pages of supernatural literature. Indeed, their characterisations of Van Helsing … [Read more...]