Movie Reviews

Title= The Benchwarmers
Score= 1.5
Summary= John gives his quick 3 minutes review of The Benchwarmers.

Title= Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Score= 3
Summary= John gives his quick 3 minutes review of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.

Title= Slither
Score= 8
Summary= John gives his quick 3 minutes review of Slither.

Title= The Inside Man
Score= 7.5
Summary= John gives his quick 3 minutes review of The inside Man.

Title= The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Score= 4.5 out of 10
Summary= Alexandre Aja takes Wes Craven’s classic and launches it into the new millennium. Adding more gore, freight, characters and story. Fans of the original will be pleased with this treatment and new comers will enjoy this horror coaster full of bloody fun.

Title=The Island
Score=3
Summary=Great plot idea poorly executed in this mindless action movie. There are so many groaning and problematic scenes I really found it hard to enjoy. Coupled with a very poor DVD offering with hidden content that you may well miss, or not as the case may be.

Title=Sky Blue (Wonderful Days)
Score=6
Summary=Wonderful visuals with a superb DTS audio track, just let down by a weaker plot and unexplored characters. If you’re an anime fan though, check out those visuals, they are fantastic, especially the work to place and move the camera in scenes.

Title=Munich
Score=9
Summary=Strong and at times quite brutal, this is a tough and harrowing movie to watch, but ultimately very satisfying. There are a few twee Spielberg moments, and a slight feeling of being a little lost towards the end of the movie, but overall it’s a superb piece of work. Visually it gives the impression of the time, with costume and filming work shining, then there’s the excellent writing and great performances from some of the leads. Well worth watching, but again, not an easy film to watch.

Title=Walk the Line
Score=10
Summary=There’s nothing but praise for this movie, the actors give excellent performances individually and together showing great chemistry, and strongly backed by a very good cast. Then there’s the superb writing and that very satisfying circular story, filled with superbly visualised shots. The music is superb and gives such weight to that opening sequence. This is a stunningly good film, if you weren’t a Cash fan before, watch out.

Title=Match Point
Score=9
Summary=Not liking Woody Allen I was surprised that I liked this movie, and just how good it is. It’s very real with some excellently scripted moments, and the turning point of this movie is a huge surprise, nothing that you’d expect from Allen. Johansson is very strong as is the rest of the British supporting cast, although Rhys-Meyers does disappoint somewhat. Excellent movie though.

Title= Gremlins (1984)
Score= 6
Summary= Steven Spielberg presents this Christmas tale of torment and mischief. Little green monsters terrorize a small town during Christmas, breaking things, killing things, and watching a little Snow White. Zach Galligan, the cute as hell Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman and we can’t leave out Judge Reinhold, all star in this fun movie.

Title= Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Score= 6
Summary= Ron Howard brings this classic Seuss story to the big screen in a big way. He gets big names like Jim Carrey who plays the Grinch and a list of stars. This light movie is perfect for all ages, and is especially perfect for the Holidays. Howard and his team set the bar for Seuss interpretations with this movie.