[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003R0KOUQ][/pullquote] In 1997, James Cameron smashed the all-time box office record, with multi-Academy Award-winning mega-hit Titanic. He has been known throughout his career for making trail-blazing movies. His incredible work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day showed … [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: Paul (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00588O9GK][/pullquote] Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are now as synonymous with each other as Jay and Silent Bob, Abbot and Costello or Feliz and Oscar. They are best friends and started their careers together on the critically-acclaimed Spaced TV series. They later went … [Read more...]
Review: TRON: Legacy (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B009S0V15Q][/pullquote] In the late 1970s and early 1980s computers were designed for home use and games were created to appeal to children and teenagers. Video arcades were filled with an entire generation who would come to see the personal computer become a staple … [Read more...]
Review: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005FRBD0Y][/pullquote] Philip K. Dick is one of the most celebrated science fiction writers of all time. His works have been converted time and time again, with a varying level of success. The most well-known are Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. The … [Read more...]
Review: I Am Number Four (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004MKN5BA][/pullquote] I am Number Four. Alex Pettyfer declares in the film's opening voice-over monologue. Well he's cleverly dropped in the name of the film in case anybody had made a mistake upon entering the cinema. What a thoughtful, considerate man he is. … [Read more...]
Review: Attack the Block (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005ZCAZ3A][/pullquote] Like many gritty, urban dramas, Attack the Block begins with a terrifying vision of the society in which we live. A scared women, walking along a deserted London street alone, when she runs into a group of youths who surround and mug her for a … [Read more...]