QUARANTINE another unnecessary remake? Simon muses…
Release Date: 9th March 2009 Available at Amazon for £7.98 Oh, Hollywood how you infuriate me sometimes. Just because a film is in a foreign…
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DVD Reviews
Simon came, he SAW, it sucked…
Release Date: 9th March 2009 So it seems we are going to have another SAW every year then… There is a very definite pattern emerging…
Simon goes TRANSSIBERIAN…
Release Date: 02/03/09 TRANSSIBERIAN, a mongrelised version of an oft-used format, is obsessed with the idea of people being something counter to what they appear;…
From a different perspective ANAMORPH might be good. But Simon isnt convinced…
A film starring Willem Dafoe and Peter Stormare, with a distinctly SEVEN-esque flavour to it sounds like a pretty damn good prospect, does it not?…
Simon thinks this town is coming like a GHOST TOWN…
I have an apology to make. During my review of HANCOCK I suggested that Jason Bateman was the American Ricky Gervais: by inference a man…
Can MONKEY MAGIC recapture the cult appeal?
RELEASED: 23rd February 2009 As I’m not sure if you’re familiar with The Journey to the West, or Monkey, as Western countries traditionally call it…
Simon wonders what a ROCKNROLLA is…
When will Guy Ritchie stop having to prove that he deserves his status as one of Britain’s leading directors? Well, first of all he…
Simon says STEP BROTHERS pushes its one joke to the limit…
I’ve given STEP BROTHERS a lot of chances to impress me, having been majorly underwhelmed by the first two viewings- and you know what? It’s…
Simon says OPERATION VALKYRIE could have been better…
Released to coincide with the cinema bow of Brian Singer’s VALKYRIE, writer/Director Jan-Pierre Isbouts’ OPERATION VALKYRIE: THE STAUFFENBERG PLOT TO KILL HITLER arrives on DVD-…
SIMON says TROPIC THUNDER is big, but it isnt clever…
The Blu-Ray release of TROPIC THUNDER on January 26th presents me with a monumental dilemma- should I watch my beloved Robert Downey Junior on rip-roaring…
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