The year is 2012, the American economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared along with crime rates. Due to the spiralling costs of incarcerating these miscreants the prison system has been privatised and corporations run prisons for profit. One enterprising prison streams cage fights between prisoners live on the internet on a pay per view basis. Things get [...]

Just received this press release about the upcoming release of Ghost Town starring Ricky Gervais. This is another one I missed at the cinema, so hopefully we’ll get a review copy and can let you know what we think.
 
           
Paramount Home Entertainment
Presents

~ British comedy genius Ricky Gervais stars in the supernatural romantic comedy of the [...]

When one of his satellites discovers an unusual heat source 2000 feet under the ice on a small island off Antarctica, billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) recruits a team of the finest scientific and drilling experts and well respected extreme terrain guide Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan) and heads south, convinced he’ll make the [...]

As a child, which was a long time ago, I loved going to see cartoons and animations, mainly I think because the filmmakers could make their imaginations and that of their audiences come true much more easily than with live action. Of course with todays amazing special effects capabilities that isn’t so true. So, as [...]

So far this year on DVD it’s been a pretty good year as far as comedies go. I’ve been lucky enough to review a couple of crackers in Pineapple Express and You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. Having said that though, it was Tropic Thunder that I was looking forward to the most.
Tropic thunder, written [...]

Miles Massey (George Clooney) is a successful divorce lawyer who’s famous for creating the Massey pre-nup, an unbreakable Pre-Nuptial marriage contract. He gets a new client Rex Rexroth (Edward Hermann), who’s been caught on camera with a young lady literally with his pants down by private investigator Gus Petch (Cedric The Entertainer). Massey successfully fights [...]

The Apple website has the following to say about “12”
12 characters. 12 truths. The story of 12 jurors discussing a verdict to pass on an 18 year old Chechen boy whether he is guilty of 1st degree murder of his step-father — an officer of the Russian army. The film thinks aloud about today’s life, [...]

This was another film that I hadn’t actually heard of before watching it. I’m not really much of a Horror fan and my other half won’t usually watch them at all. It came highly recommended however so we thought we would give it a shot. If you’d rather not know about the plot then jump [...]

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
You don’t mess with the Zohan tackles a very tricky political and humanitarian nightmare with absolutely no sensitivity at all………and is much the better for it! For those who haven’t heard anything about the film, The Zohan (Adam Sandler) is an Israeli special forces commando. He’s not just any commando [...]

thought I’d post up this interview with the stars from Tropic Thunder. It’s a bit long, but well worth a read. Kirk.
Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller (Tugg Speedman, co-writer, director)
Jack Black (Jeff Portnoy)
Robert Downey, Jr. (Kirk Lazarus)
Were there more of the fake trailers at the start of the film than you ended up using?
Stiller:  “No, that was [...]