100 Words or Less – 3000 Miles to Graceland

Title – 3000 Miles to Graceland Released – 2001 Director – Demian Lichtenstein Starring – Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater Review – In a word: unpleasant. 3KMTG is weird, horrible in every way yet exceptionally entertaining. The cast is amazing, the action is hyperviolent and explosive and the Elvis impersonations are spot-on. It’s over the top and unsure what […]

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Spider-Man Trilogy Review

Spider-Man (2002) “Remember, with great power, comes great responsibility.” Along with the X Men trilogy that was kick started in the late 90’s, the Spiderman trilogy is a bench mark in superhero film making and is arguably some of the most important films in the genre. These films, along with the X Men showed that […]

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X-Men: Days of Future Past Review

“I don’t want your suffering! I don’t want your future!” X-Men: Days of Future Past joins together our favourite mutants from the groovy 70’s along with the X-Men we grew up with, who are now all living in a post-apocalyptic nightmare. There were so many ways this movie could have gone wrong, it was such a […]

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Flight (2012) Review

[I’ll try to keep this review reasonably spoiler free, but beware!]    Flight first caught my attention last year, when its first trailer was released. The trailer was one of the best movie trailers I’d seen for quite some time and I think I may have held off from watching the film because I believed it […]

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City of God (Cidade de Deus) Review

I’ve really got into foreign films recently, watching some great movies like Oldboy, The Raid, Elite Squad and Elite Squad 2: Enemy Wihtin. City of God has been described as shocking and disturbing and believe me it did not disappoint on that front, but it was also a really compelling and often almost funny look at life in the slums of […]

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