Description: Reviews of DVDs and Films
Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Screenwritten by Don McKellar is a great film, not flashy or gordy but well penned and well told. Based on the 1995 novel by José Saramago, it’s story of epidemic blindness infecting the globe and the consequences of a lone individual retaining her sight....read more »
Here we are approaching the end of this summery season of films, for those needing a recap part one highlighted the top films out each week in may and part two highlighted most of June and now we’ll round up with July....read more »
I really enjoyed the first Night at the Museum. To anthropermophise inanimate objects like statues and exhibits and see them interact as what they embody is hilarious. How would cowboys who are often depicted operating solo cooperate with Roman infantry who function as teams; The perfect situation for comedy!...read more »
Angels & Demons was regarded by the Vatican as harmless, unlike the Da Vinci Code which jabbed at the righteousness of the Church. What I do find shocking is that whilst Catholics, or generally those of the Christian persuasion get in an uproar about their religion being badmouthed Scientists haven’t been outraged (as far as I know) about the potential dangers of Antimatter and the Science Fiction surrounding its use for nefarious purposes in this film. If I were to play devils advocate I would say that maybe Science doesn’t need defending because its right and religion is just mumbo-jumbo but I know that to be mostly wrong, those with religion keep it very close to their heart and as such its easy to bruise both at the same time. Still, maybe if there wasn’t a kerfuffle at every little bruise then the world wouldn’t have seen so many wars and would be a happier place, I digress....read more »
When your girl isn’t about and its Valentines day what do you do? Indulge in cliché behaviour of beer, crisps and films involving violence or explosions! The first 2 are very easy to procure, plenty of brands of beer out there in a variety of distils, crisps are just as easy, the synergy of the entire night for me is the film. Choose wisely and the tone of the entire night is amplified, pick wrong and you’ve at least got your friends around to laugh with you, or if it was really bad and your fault, at you....read more »
Before Star Wars made the dominant setting of pop culture Science Fiction in-space there were other stories that proposed the big “What if?” to a scientific reality and explored the repracutions of changing it. Older films didn’t have the ability to make billions of polygons dance onscreen so they had to use plot and intrigue to grip an audiences attention, the ones that did survive in general knowledge to this day....read more »
When George Lucas was first trying to explain the Tie-fighter and X-wing dog fights in Star Wars (1977) he used World War II dogfight recordings to convey the tension and action the way he imagined it. These visuals lead to the now common place air-to-air and space to space combat scenes we see today in television series like Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica. At the time it was unconventional and difficult to perform and now it happens on a daily basis....read more »
