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Blind Spot Series: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins 27 Aug 2013 | 04:05 am
Most of the films I have spoken about so far in this series are either all time classics or more recent and highly regarded movies (mainly animated as that is where my blind spot lies) but Remo Willia...
Elmore Leonard 1925 – 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 02:03 pm
Elmore Leonard 1925 – 2013 From pulp western novels in the 1950’s to the brilliant TV show Justified via Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard was noth...
Why I am Glad The Lone Ranger is “Underperforming” at the Box-Office 26 Aug 2013 | 03:08 am
The greatest revelation of the month; The Lone Ranger isn’t a bad film, in fact its actually quite enjoyable. Armie Hammer’s deadpan, fish out of water portrayal of the Lone Ranger is good. Johnny Dep...
A Year of Movies 15 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
Inspired by Spring Breakers from earlier this year I was wondering is there a film that represents each month of the year. For some there are lots to choose from, others are a little harder to think o...
Blade Reboot? 10 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
Films based on comic books and graphic novels are big business taking billions of dollars at the box office but this wasn’t always the case. After years of the rights to Marvel comics being sold off f...
Justified 9 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am
Last week saw the last episode of the season of possibly the best, certainly my favourite American TV show of recent years, Justified. When the show started in 2010 it looked like it was going to be j...
More Frightening With an English Accent 5 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Over half the people who have read this site are from America with less than 10% from the UK, so what I am going to say will make more sense to some than others. Growing up films were American. Sure t...
Movie of the Month: July 2013 1 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
The contenders for movie of the month are: The East: Brit Marling plays a former FBI agent now working for a private intelligence firm, she is sent undercover to infiltrate the East, an anarchist col...
Blind Spot Series: The Iron Giant 30 Jul 2013 | 04:01 am
When picking a blind spot movie what better recommendation than one from the series organiser, that is sort of what I have done. Back in June, Ryan and his guest Matthew Price spoke about The Iron Gia...
The Wolverine 26 Jul 2013 | 05:48 pm
2009 X-Men origin: Wolverine was a mess; it suffered from too many characters and an incoherent plot. Previous X-Men movies have handled the character well revelling parts of his mysterious back stor...
