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Review: Salt

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Salt the Spoiler Free one line review: Salt is a good action film but slightly generic and not quite as good as I’d hoped for but certainly better than a lot I’ve seen. My spoiler filled longer thoughts on Salt follow this picture… Salt isn’t a bad action film and I don’t think it suffered […]

The A-Team

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

The trailers and the Orange advert had built up my expectation for The A-Team.  The reviews and past experience of remakes (I’m looking at you The Dukes of Hazard) had dampened my hopes. It starts out well – the origin story for the team is nice if a little light and sets up the characters […]

Inception

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Normally I write these things I loosely describe as reviews the same night as seeing a film or TV show. Waiting any longer risks thinking too much about the subject or forgetting a detail. That’s why I didn’t write about Sherlock last week and why I almost didn’t write about Inception that I went to […]

RED Trailer

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Pick any one of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman or John Malkovich and you’d have my attention for RED. Brian Cox or Ernest Borgnine would push this into my want to see list. Helen Mirren flower arranging is a bit a bit Calendar Girls. Helen Mirren with a machine gun? Helen Mirren with a Machine Gun! […]

The Losers

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Half my brain liked The Losers the other half isn’t so sure.  First the good things… The comedy – it wasn’t always timed perfectly – but there was plenty of humour and it was drawn from the characters. The action was solid and sometimes creative.  The way The Losers could be casual when going up […]

Clash of the Titans Review in the Style of the Film

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Review of Clash of the Titans in the style of the film. Story OK but a bit like it was cobbled together for twitter. Looked good. Nice costumes and props. Mix of solid and good special effects. Sound seemed a bit lacklustre.  Might have been the system in the cinema. Gods were great.  So was […]

Solomon Kane Review

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Just back from a night out with some friends for a meal and then on to see Solomon Kane at the Odeon in Liverpool 1.  Before I get to the film good to see that the Odeon seems to have improved since the last couple of times I’ve been there.  The cinema was clean and […]

Il Forno and The Informant

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Oh dear looks like I need to get my grumpy hat out for both Il Forno and The Informant… Went to Il Forno on Duke Street in Liverpool for dinner before going to see the early evening showing of The Informant at FACT.  Things started well with quick service and an excellent swordfish tart starter […]

Fantastic Mr Fox

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Fanstastic Mr Fox is probably my favourite Roald Dahl children’s story.  So today I decided I’d go and see it at the Odeon in Liverpool 1 and crossed my fingers they’d not treated the source material as a slum clearance job it like Disney did with Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Given the source materials brevity it’s […]

Skipper Dan

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Weird Al’s latest song sounds like it should be the theme for a US sitcom or maybe a film. Maybe not his greatest song ever but it has something…

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