Reviewed: Tank Girl (1995)

All the recent Gorillaz talk prompted Mog to revisit the film that introduced him to Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s Tank Girl.

Reviewed: The Lost Thing (2010)

The Lost Thing is an animated short from 2010 based on the book of the same name by Shaun Tan and animated by Leo Baker.

Reviewed: The Trip (1967)

An LSD film written by Jack Nicholson, directed by Roger Corman and starring Peter Fonda! And Dennis Hopper is in there too?! *mind explodes!* Actually, if you’re familiar with this period in cinematic history, these guys worked with each other in different capacities more than once. Corman directed Nicholson in the original Little Shop Of Horrors […]

Reviewed: Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

The Muppets have been around since forever. Like many, I grew up watching and loving all things Henson on screen. On TV there was Sesame Street, The Storyteller and re-runs of The Muppet show. Film-wise there was The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and of course, the Star Wars films. There’s an art to conveying convincing puppet […]

Reviewed: The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Here we have a Western under the directorial supervision of Sam Raimi with stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman and Lance Henrikson. How could this not be a brilliant movie? Oh wait, it’s a Sharon Stone vehicle. Aha! There’s your problem. Now, the reason I’m reviewing this is that I was looking […]

Reviewed: The Lego Movie (2014)

You what?! – made a highly entertaining, imaginative, visually stunning and dare I say emotionally charged story with Lego? Did you also insert a subversive message about the evils of big business using the very tool you’re crying out against? Well done, folks – very well done. Okay, that’s enough lip service. Now to figure […]

Reviewed: RED (2010)

This here film was well-received enough that it got a sequel – the sequel’s quite good but let’s go back in time to 2010 to where it all started…ish (I’m sure Bruce won’t mind – he loves time travel). For a while there, I’d lost my faith in Bruce Willis. After the atrocity that was […]