Unforgiven (1992) Review
Best Picture Oscar winner Unforgiven. My first viewing of this Oscar winning film, and my first thought is why haven’t I seen this fantastic film before? I really cannot answer that question but that’s...
View ArticleOscar Season
As the Oscars are in a week. I decided to look through my collection of DVDs and see which are Best Picture winners or have an acting Oscar associated with them. So I will try to review a lot of them...
View ArticleJolie And Hanks Named Most Popular Oscar Winners Ever
Probably the expected results from this poll. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie, voted the favorites for best actor, actress and supporting categories. Titanic favorite of the...
View ArticleMovie Picture of the Day 1
So from today I am going to be posting random pictures from different movies. Possibly a film that I have watched recently or just my favorite stills. So today’s is from ‘The Bucket List’, featuring...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2008
This is my top 10 list of movies from 2008 So here it goes. Yes your probably thinking, its about time. But I have been trying to complete this since like February haha. 10. Body of Lies Leonardo...
View ArticleNews: Batman Bale Caught Snoozing
Awww that is being very laid back, haha. Batman star Christian Bale ruined his first ever scene as the caped superhero by falling asleep on set. The British actor claims he never suffers nerves on set,...
View ArticleMillion Dollar Baby (2004) Review
I do not really know where exactly to start with this review, as this is my all time favorite film. It has been from the very first time that I saw it and was just amazed by the acting, the story and...
View ArticleInvictus (2009) Poster
A poster has been released for the new film about Nelson Mandela from Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
View ArticleInvictus (2009) Trailer
Quickly after the release of the poster comes the trailer for Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” and this really does have Oscars 2010 written all over it. It really does look and will be that good. The...
View ArticleGolden Globes 2010 – Nominations
The 67th Annual Golden Globes take place on 17th January 2010 and are the first major awards to be handed out in what will be another busy awards season. Because I had been slipping with the blog for...
View ArticleSAG Awards 2010 – Nominations
23rd January 2010 the awards voted by actors for actors will be awarded. I have only posted up the film related awards, another pointer to who will win the Oscar? Just maybe. The nominations are . . ....
View ArticleBAFTA Awards 2010 – Long List
The long list of possible nominee’s for this year’s BAFTA awards has been released today. I was not going to blog about this, but as I got further down the long list and to the actor in a leading and...
View ArticleCritics Choice Awards 2010 – Results
The award season was well and truly kicked off last night with the 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards. I think most of it is pretty predictable. We will have to see how the Golden Globes go on Sunday...
View ArticleGolden Globes 2010 – Predictions
In build up for tonight’s Golden Globes I have decided to post my predictions. Who I want to win but who I think will win (if those are different). I am looking forward to the show tonight and quite...
View ArticleUnwatched DVDs
For quite a few years now I have had problems buying DVDs of films which I have never seen before. These films may have one of my favorite actors in, won a lot of awards (mainly Oscar’s), I had heard a...
View ArticleOscars 2010 – Nominations
The day eventually arrived and the nominations have now been released (I now know which films I have to watch before 7th March) and we can all start debating and creating our predictions on who is...
View ArticleMovie Quote of the Day 57
Today’s quote comes from is an inspirational one from “Shawshank Redemption”. “Hope is a good thing maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.”
View ArticleOscars 2010 Luncheon – Pictures
The annual luncheon for nominees before the Oscars took place earlier this week which is a build up to the Oscar ceremony. I am still really happy that Colin Firth has been nominated, I can’t wait to...
View ArticleInvictus (2009) Review
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World...
View ArticleOscars 2010 – The Show
Possibly the most predictable Oscars in recent times. But what was the show like? Well I thoroughly enjoyed it last year and that was because of host Hugh Jackman and some changes made to the show. I...
View ArticleDesert Island DVDs
Whilst trying to decide which films to include, I decided the biggest factor had to be if your able to watch it over and over again. I mean your only going to have 8 DVDs to chose from. Pointless...
View ArticleTop 10 – Best Films of 2009
The 10 films I found the best from the year 2009. Yes you may think its now April, but I was trying to keep it to films from 2009 based on the year they were made rather than UK release date as that is...
View ArticleRed (2010) Poster
It seems as though as I post a poster for Red another one seems to be released! I can’t help but post them especially if it features Morgan Freeman, like this one does . . .
View ArticleOscars 2011 – Live Blog
Live updates with my thoughts on the 2011 Oscars! Well I made the decision to watch E! for the red carpet coverage, which I have no idea if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Ready for the Oscar...
View ArticleOscars 2011 – The Show
Well this year the approach from the Academy was to have two young actors to host. This called upon nominee James Franco and Anne Hathaway to add a different edge to the Oscars ceremony. The main theme...
View ArticleDay 1: Favorite film
Everyone who has read my blog before will already know the answer to this one . . . yes that’s right Million Dollar Baby. I have loved it since the first viewing when it really broke my heart. Such...
View ArticleA Life in Movies
The latest blogathon event around the film-blogging world is ‘A Life in Movies’ this quite simply means I have picked a film from each since I was born. That year being 1987. The approach I have taken...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises (2012) Review
The epic conclusion to the Legend of Batman . . . The Dark Knight Rises I went to the 5am showing put on by Cineworld! Four years after the incredible ‘The Dark Knight’ when Heath Ledger’s Joker...
View ArticleThe Magic of Belle Isle (2012) Review
I have to admit that I had never even heard of this film, until I saw it on Sky Movies Premiere a few days ago. So I decided to give it a watch last night. I mean it has Morgan Freeman in it so it had...
View ArticleOblivion (2013) Review
Jack Harper is assigned to Earth to extract its remaining resources after it was abandoned after a war took place in 2017. But everything is not as it seems when Jack still has flashbacks from his...
View ArticleOlympus Has Fallen (2013) Review
When a terrorist attack on the White House sees the President taken hostage and all secret service agents wiped out it is left to Mike Banning who was a former presidential guard to save the day. I...
View ArticleNow You See Me (2013) Review
Thanks to a secret screening at Cineworld, where the audience had no idea which film we had got tickets to see. This film had a sneaky preview on Monday night. Was very pleased when we found out it...
View ArticleLast Vegas (2013) Review
Four friends in their sixties head to Vegas to throw a bachelor party for Billy who was the last remaining single one, but it was not really all that simple. The film starts back when they were all...
View ArticleTranscendence (2014) Review
Dr Will Caster saw the world as place where God could exist. Developing a computer system which could work in the same way as the human brain. This is probably going to be one of the most difficult...
View ArticleLucy (2014) Review
Lucy gets caught up in some business deal she has no idea about, being set up by her new boyfriend Richard. She is then set to do a job … Which doesn’t really work out to the plan of her captors. Now...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight (2008) Review
The second instalment in Christopher Nolan’s incredible Batman trilogy. Gotham City is turned upside down as The Joker begins to cause chaos in the city, pushing everyone to find out their limits....
View ArticleTed 2 (2015) Review
Ted has gotten married to the love of his life Tami-Lynn but a year later they are fighting and arguing all the time. They decide the way to fix this was to have a baby. Yes you can work out the main...
View ArticleThe Shawshank Redemption (1994) Review
Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and must serve two life sentences for this crime, but did he actually commit it? He is sent to Shawshank prison and it certainly is a...
View Article7 Incredible Matt Damon Performances
After watching Matt Damon on his own for most of the film in The Martian, it made me think about the incredible performances he has put in over the years. I have therefore decided to not choose that...
View ArticleCineworld Secret Screening 5 – Possible Films
We have a very fast turn around from the 4th Secret Screening which was the very disappointing ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ which was only in December 2015. We have the next Secret Screening all set for...
View ArticleLondon Has Fallen (2016) Review
Mike Banning is back in action as he accompanies the President to London to attend the funeral of the British Prime Minister. Everything is not as it first seems . . . In all honesty I could not really...
View ArticleNow You See Me 2 (2016) Review
A whole year has passed since the Horsemen outwitted the FBI and now they must resurface and work together to stop Walter Mabry a tech genius who wants to use their abilities for his gain. The plot is...
View ArticleBatman Begins (2005) Review
Bruce Wayne wants revenge for his parents death and in the process of this we see that his goal changes to trying to save Gotham from the corrupt mobsters who are beginning to run it. A very intensive...
View ArticleMy 7 Favourite Best Picture Winners
I saw this going around Twitter last night listing your 7 Favourite Best Picture winners but I thought I wanted to put a blog post together to be able to have more information in it! As you may already...
View ArticlePreview: April 2017 at the Cinema
Each month I have now decided to do a preview/up and coming post of the films that are going to be coming to the cinema. So here we go for April in 2017 and which films we can look to go and see, or...
View ArticleGoing in Style (2017) Review
Joe, Willie and Albert are trying to keep supporting their families on their pensions. But when the company they used to work for is taken over and payments are due to stop they come up with a drastic...
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