Bock The Robber

There we are, hundreds of us, wearing our Buddy Holly glasses, not sure what to expect from the new Superman movie, but there’s something nicely circular about a cinema full [...]

If you’ve been coming here for any length of time, you’ll know I’m a sucker for SF, especially if that SF happens to have a provenance going back to the [...]

Hey!  You’re a big-time movie director all of a sudden and you have a budget to make an action movie based on a successful franchise.  You’re going to shoot the [...]

Leonardo Di Caprio’s character has a speech during Django Unchained in which he ponders why the black slaves in America didn’t simply kill their white masters. Why indeed? Why is [...]

How do you keep an audience on the edge of their seats when everyone knows how the story ends?  It’s quite a trick that Ben Affleck pulls of with Argo, [...]

I heard this evening that Idris Elba is tipped to be the new James Bond, and I thought immediately it was a strange choice, until I realised I was trapped [...]

James Bond went all gritty and brooding when Daniel Craig climbed into the cockpit to pilot the spy-droid, which was probably a good thing for a while.  It certainly made [...]

If extreme, graphic violence is your thing, if you like cheesy plot lines and wooden acting, if you enjoy one-dimensional merciless killers in uniform, then Dredd 3D is the movie [...]

There’s no way to say this in a nice way, so I might just as well get on with it. This film is dripping with sugar.  If you accidentally touch [...]

Loving the post-Producers Nazi parody of Iron Sky