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Cinema
Cinema Review – Django Unchained
Django is as long as it is full of bodies, with stellar performances from the entire lead cast. It may not be the best Tarantino film, but even a medium one is a lot better than the best of a lot of his peers.
Cinema
Cinema Review – Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a stunning film that while at times it lacks a little EPIC scale, it more than makes up for that in heartfelt emotions.
Blu-Ray
Blu-ray Review- Searching for Sugar Man
I love music documentaries – I will watch them ad nauseam regardless of subject matter. This probably makes me in the target audience for Searching For Sugar Man – which centres around the career of the elusive Rodriguez, a mu...
Cinema
Cinecity Diary – 28th November – I, Anna
‘I, Anna’ has some notable and admiring moments it lacks the intelligence that a thriller of this level needs and this stops it from being a compelling watch.
Cinema
Cinecity Diary – 27th November – Yossi
‘Yossi’ is an engaging and brilliant piece of film making. It may not come with the big bells and whistles we are used to, it may be a bit simple for some, but it is an uncomplicated feel good story that is compelling viewing f...
Cinema
Cinema Review – Silver Linings Playbook
David O Russell's follow up to last year's Oscar grabbing The Fighter is a moving and at times hilarious character study of how a psychiatric patients recovery impacts on the life of a young woman bereaving the death of her hus...
Cinema
Cinema Review – Great Expectations
Great Expectations has made almost fifteen appearances on-screen, this the latest by British director Mike Newell, almost a year after its popular appearance on UK screens as a televised drama. Newell is somewhat of a marmite d...
Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray Review – The Amazing Spiderman 3D
When I first heard about this film I had to check the wealth of knowledge that is the internet. Had it really been long enough to reboot a franchise? Actually it has been 10 years, so maybe, just maybe. Actually contrary to my ...
DVD
From The Bottom Shelf – The Phantom of The Opera (2004)
From The Bottom Shelf: Revisiting old DVD’s I find on the bottom shelf of my collection, and trying to work out if they deserve your time, or not. If you asked any random person in the street to name at least 5 stage musi...
Cinema
Cinecity Diary – 19th November – I Wish
‘I Wish’ isn’t the instant classic that we might expect from the brilliant film maker, but there is definitely something here to savour with the naïveté and simplistic way in which these young brothers experience the world.
Blu-Ray
Blu-ray Review – Arthur Christmas 3D
Arthur Christmas is a little different to the normal run of the mill family Christmas movie. It is fun and well written with some brilliant animation to boot.
Cinema
Cinecity Diary – 16th November – Sightseers Q&A
'Sightseers’ is a film that firmly builds on the foundation that Wheatley’s two previous movies laid and serves to confirm the film makers craft. I am very much looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next!
Cinema
Cinecity Diary – 15th November – Seven Psychopaths
While Seven Psychopaths may not be for everyone because of its extreme dark comedy and violence, those who are keen moviegoers and fans of the film industry will lap it up.
Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray Review – La Gloire De Mon Pere & Le Chateau De Ma Mere Box Set
Drenched in nostalgia and memories of bygone days, both films in this boxset are capable of transporting you back to the happiest memories of your childhood and come highly recommended
Blu-Ray
Cinecity Top 10 Film Poll – 2011 – Drive
With the festival looming, CINECITY has announced it build up campaign, and what kind of movie fan Brightonian would I be if I didn’t get involved. But what is it all about? Read on… CineCity 2012, Brighton Film Festival is app...
Blu-Ray
Cinecity Top 10 Poll – 2010 – Barney’s Version
With the festival looming, CINECITY has announced it build up campaign, and what kind of movie fan Brightonian would I be if I didn’t get involved. But what is it all about? Read on… CineCity 2012, Brighton Film Festival is app...
Blu-Ray
Cinecity Top 10 Poll – 2009 – A Prophet
With the festival looming, CINECITY has announced it build up campaign, and what kind of movie fan Brightonian would I be if I didn’t get involved. But what is it all about? Read on… CineCity 2012, Brighton Film Festival is app...
Blu-Ray
Weekend Round-Up – Southern Comfort (1981) Review
Southern Comfort could have taken the ball from Deliverance and re written it in a fresh and original take. Instead it falls back to a text book survival thriller about a group of soldiers that could hardly make it through Basi...
Blu-Ray
Cinecity Top 10 Poll – 2008 – The Dark Knight
With the festival looming, CINECITY has announced it build up campaign, and what kind of movie fan Brightonian would I be if I didn’t get involved. But what is it all about? Read on… CineCity 2012, Brighton Film Festival is app...
Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray Review – Cesar et Rosalie
French cinema may have pioneered a lot over of the years, but perhaps one of the most lasting gift is the “love triangle” sub-genre. Cesar and Rosalie is one of two films released by studiocanal this week (the other being Casq...
Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray Review – Casque d’Or
One benefit of Woody Allen’s fantastic 2011 film, Midnight in Paris doing so well was that it raised awareness of France’s rich cultural history, and for Francophiles like me, that’s always a good thing. Casque d’Or is Jacques ...
Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray Review – My Neighbour Totoro
After months, and even years, of speculation, Studio Ghibi fans have finally had their patience rewarded with the release of one of the most acclaimed and beloved films in their collection. My Neighbour Totoro is here on Blu-ra...
Blu-Ray
Blu-ray Review – Castle of Cagliostro
Voted as the greatest ever anime by Manga readers back in 2001, Castle of Cagliostro is coming to Blu-ray. As one of Studio Ghibli’s oldest creation – its release dating back to 1979 – it is perhaps fitting that one of the most...
Blu-Ray
Weekend Round-Up – Men In Black 3D Blu-ray Review
MIB3 is a great film for those willing to enjoy the visual side of a blockbuster, and let be able to make some leaps of faith along the way.
DVD
From The Bottom Shelf – Hulk (2003)
Ang Lee's often plodding film version of the Hulk is still worthwhile, even if it drags through a cripplingly slow first act; the visual effects make up for many shortcomings, but not often enough with anywhere near the intensi...
Blu-Ray
Cinecity Top 10 Poll – 2007 – There Will Be Blood
With the festival looming, CINECITY has announced it build up campaign, and what kind of movie fan Brightonian would I be if I didn’t get involved. But what is it all about? Read on… CineCity 2012, Brighton Film Festival is app...
Cinema
Cinema Review – Argo
It isn’t very often these days, with the amount of movies being produced, that we find a movie that reminds us why we love movies in the first place, Argo is one of them!
Tech
Tech Tuesday Xbox SmartGlass for Android
Xbox SmartGlass is a nice step forward for Microsoft, jumping on a growing bandwagon - Let us hope developers get stuck into providing us with content.
Cinema
Cinema Review – Skyfall
Skyfall is a welcomed return for the franchise. Far superior to Quantum of Solace, yet not quite on par with the superb Casino Royale for its subtlety and gritty nature
DVD
From the Bottom Shelf – DVD Review of The Musketeer (2001)
Destroying a classic story in a single film, The Musketeer is an absolute mess, barely coherent and certainly with minimal redeemping features other than it's sumptuous use of location filming. Avoid this where possible.
