Eagle Eye - Fast paced rip-off of Enemy Of The State. The second half descended into ridiculousness, and Michelle Monaghan basically spent the entire film looking like a deer in headlights. It does its job and keep you entertained for its duration. Just remember to leave your brains at the door.

The Rocker Fish (Rainn Wilson) is kicked out of 80s rock band Vesuvius, Cut to 20 years later, where he is working a dead-end office job while his former bandmates have gone on to massive superstardom. Then his nephew's band A.D.D needs a drummer to play and we see the rise of his new group A.D.D. I was expecting it to be good but it turned out to great fun. It's great to see someone other than Jack Black playing a role like this. Well done Rainn Wilson, Great supporting cast as well also the music rocks as well. 8/10

The Rocker - Very funny film that flies through its running time. Rainn Wilson gives his character a heart that puts Jack Black's previous portrayals to shame. Not a single person is miscast in this film. I really felt it was a shame I saw this in an almost empty screen, because it deserves to be huge. This will most definitely be a future purchase on dvd.

House Bunny A Fun, Leave your brain at door movie. Good to Anna Faris doing something other than those shit Scary Movies and the lovely up and coming Emma Stone in another funny role. 7/10

Dumb-as-horseshit actioner starring Clive Owen,Paul Giamatti and Monica Bellucci. Completely over the top and utterly ridiculous but good fun nonetheless... Like what the Transporter movies or Crank might have been like with a decent budget and director... Owen's even bearable in this... 3.5/5

And yet Transporter movies or Crank have all spawned sequels :D

Doesn't mean they're any good though really,does it?

I prefer Statham to Owen. :lol:

I wouldn't totally disagree with you there...Owen's a pretty shit actor really...

The House Bunny - Rather funny yet sweet movie that takes the piss out of a lot of stereotypes. Anna Faris excels as the ditzy but full of heart ex-playmate who gives herself the mission to save a sorority house populated by geeks and that are tormented by the "populars" on campus. The movie plays homage to an array of films and is best viewed with tongue firmly in cheek. Leave your brain at the door for greater enjoyment.

There Will Be Blood (2007), writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson returns for the first time since Punch-Drunk Love (2002), this time, teaming up with the great Daniel Day-Lewis in this visually compelling masterpiece. Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a silver prospector who in 1898, after discovering oil, soon becomes an oil baron. But, his greed soon alienates him from his workers, and his true self emerges, and he's also embroiled in a psychological duel with corrupt young preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). It's hard to describe this film in words, it's a modern day equivelant of those old Hollywood studio films of the 1940's and 50's. Day-Lewis is probabily the best actor around, (when he's working), his performance as Plainview is compelling and eventually terrifying. Yes, he did deserve his Oscar, and maybe the film deserved more. But, it is probabily director Anderson's best film, it's certain very different to what he's done before, it's a dark, brooding film, slow burning, but it comes to an explosive conclusion, ("I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!"), which is well worth waiting for!! 5/5

Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), a very underrated comedy/sci-fi from director John Carpenter, but you can't help but get the feeling that it could have done with a more satisfying conclusion. It has businessman Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase) attending an important conference, where scientific experiments are going on. Whilst he's out the room, something goes wrong, which causes the whole building to become invisible, along with Nick as well!! With corrupt government agents led by David Jenkins (Sam Neill) on his tail, he finds himself on the run, the only person he can confide in is business associate Alice Monroe (Darryl Hannah). It's one of the first films to fully take advantage of CGI, and whilst the invisibility effects look terrific, and it is put to good humourous advantages, the story could have been better, it's ending just doesn't seem right, but it's fun in the long-term. 3/5 Body Snatchers (1993), Abel Ferrara is best known for the likes of The Driller Killer (1979), King of New York (1990) and Bad Lieutenant (1992), here he was given a chance to do a modestly-budgeted update of an old sci-fi/horror classic. It has Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) and her family moving to a military base somewhere in Alabama for the summer as her father Steve Malone (Terry Kinney), is doing environmental research in and around the area. But, nothing in this military town is what it seems, the locals seem zombified, from the local bar-patrons to the schoolchildren, and that's because they are!! It's a very creepy and disturbing film, and quite unlike anything director Ferrara has made before, despite all the gruesome effects on display, it looks alot cleaner than what he's made before. It has some quick cameos from the likes of R. Lee Ermey and Forest Whittaker, but it does feel like alot was cut out, maybe there's a longer version lying in a dusty vault somewhere... 3/5

7/10

House On Haunted Hill (1st view) – Vincent Price invites 5 strangers to a haunted house, offering them $10,00 if they spend the night and survive. It’s about as scary as a bag of Skittles, but there’s a nice atmosphere and a few scenes of fine tension. Price is a wonderful to watch as ever, but the rest of the cast vary a great deal, with some of the most awful reaction shots I’ve ever seen. Good fun overall though – 3/5 Corridors Of Blood (1st view) – Boris Karloff plays a leading surgeon in Victorian London. With no anaesthetic, his patients are in constant pain during procedures so he sets about trying to develop a way to numb the patient during operations. When he tries it out for the hospital board, his patient wakes up in agony and Karloff becomes the laughing stock of the hospital. Trying out new drugs on himself, he soon becomes addicted, and ends up doing shady business with Christopher Lee, a murderer who sells the corpses to hospitals. I suppose it isn’t that different to countless other obsessed scientist films, but this is certainly a fine entry in that genre. Karloff is an actor I always feel gets overlooked. He seems to remembered for Frankenstein alone, but I’ve always loved watching the man, and this was no exception – 4/5 The Paleface (1st view) - Buster Keaton wanders into an Indian reservation and is captured. After he survives being burnt alive (thanks to some asbestos sheeting he finds!) he becomes chief of the tribe, and helps them in their quarrel against oil tycoons trying to take over their land. Some fine visual gags make this immensely watchable, but it isn’t the best of Buster’s short films – 4/5 When Time Ran Out (1st view) SPOILERS – Ahhh, the 70’s disaster film. There’s nothing else like them really. Get a big name actor or two, a few aging stars, a couple of recognisable characters actors, give them all the briefest of storylines, chuck them into life-or-death situations, and start taking bets on who kicks the bucket. Brilliant! This one came along at the end of the cycle, 1980, and was produced my Irwin Allen, the man behind such hits as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and, ahem, The Swarm. A newly constructed hotel on a Pacific Island is under threat thanks to the island’s volcano that has just erupted. Paul Newman wants to lead folk across the island to safety; the hotel owner is willing to wait it out until help arrives. And so begins Newman’s trek across the island, leading ragtag band of misfits. There’s a tsunami, a helicopter crash, volcanic fireballs that rain down on people’s heads, a plethora of awful effects, some truly horrible dialogue, convoluted subplots and annoying characters. It short, it’s 7 different kinds of awesome. The best bit though, is the final sequence and I'll describe it in detail. Newman and party arrive at a rickety old wooden bridge across a river of lava that they need to cross. It must last for about 20 minutes. First off, Newman crosses it to -*test*-('") its safety. He gets across. A bubble of lava explodes. Some woman screams. Newman goes back across to tell everyone it’s sort of safe, just stay close to the edge. So some young hunk and Red Buttons (a man on the run for stealing bearer bonds) helps Ernest Borgnine across. Borgnine is the cop who’s followed Buttons from New York, and at this stage he’s already been set alight and blinded. They start across. A panel gives way and Borgnine almost falls through. Some woman screams. Lave bubbles. Some woman screams. They eventually get across. Two young kids run off. Newman chases them and finds Burgess Meredith alongside his cancer-suffering wife. She’s dead. Her weak heart gave out you know, but before she died, she told her hubby to help the kids, so he goes off looking for them. Next up William Holden and some old dear make it over the bridge. Lave bubbles. Some woman screams. They make it across safely. Now it’s the run of Jacqueline Bisset. She’s in love with Newman, though millionaire Holden wants to marry her. Who will she pick? No time for that now. She heads over the bridge with Mr Miyagi (the husband of the old dear who went before) and two other women, one of who is blonde. The bridge gives way. The blonde, in a great display of acrobatic dexterity, tumbles over the side, plummeting to the dodgy back projection below. Some woman screams. Then the Karate Kid's mentor falls.. His wife screams. Newman and Holden look on as the women they both love is half falling through the bridge. Still, she gets across in one piece, as does the other woman. The bridge is becoming ever more unstable, and the increasing frizziness of Bisset's hair shows us how anxious she is to see Newman get to safety. But wait. The Penguin has returned, seemingly not caring about his dead wife anymore, but happy to have found the two kids. How to get them across though, that's the question? Luckily, Meredith used to be a circus performer, so he runs off to find a large stick, gets the young boy to climb onto his back and he tightropes across the one sturdy beam that remains. Burgess stumbles. Some woman screams. They make it across. There is much rejoicing. But Newman and a little girl still have to make it over and there just isn’t time for Meredith to come back. So, Newman hoists the girl up and they tentatively make it across. All is looking good. Oh happy days. Then the bridge practically crumbles beneath them. Red Buttons looks anxious, William Holden looks like he wants to be somewhere else. Ernest Borgnine hopes his paycheck was big enough. Some woman screams. The young hunk from before, who hasn’t really done much, now earns his keep. In a practically Herculean display of strength, he grabs a piece of timber, wedges it between a falling beam and the cliff face and holds the bridge up single-handedly. Meredith makes his way back to offer a helping hand to Newman, who is now dangling; feet inches above molten lava, the little girl still holding on round his neck. They get back up, and then Meredith walks backwards across what little is left of the bridge. Newman and the kid make it to safety. It should be noted that the father of these kids took a tumble earlier in the day, falling right down a mountainside. These kids'll need therapy. And then, it’s over. It seemed to last for about 17 hours, but it’s finally over. And so is the film really. Bisset chooses Newman, and the hotel is destroyed, along with all those who decided not to follow Newman. Irwin Allen’s’ career as a film producers also kicks it. And there you have it. You know the phrase, “so bad it’s good”? Well forget it, we’ve entered a whole new phase here. This is “So downright awful it’s a masterpiece!” A thing of brilliance, a gem to be treasured for all time. Just pure joy! – 4/5

Eagle Eye (2008), based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, and brought to the screen by director D.J. Caruso, who had a big hit last year with the Hitchcockian thriller Disturbia. It has college drop-out Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) who finds himself at the centre of a big conspiracy and is framed for possessing terrorist materials, and he's getting phone calls from a woman he's never met, he soon finds himself together with single mother Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan) who has also received calls from this mysterious woman, claiming her son will be killed if she doesn't obey orders. They soon find themselves travelling from Chicago to Washington, and it all has something to do with Shaw's recently deceased twin brother, Ethan. It's a very silly thriller indeed, but like Caruso's last film, this also owes alot to Alfred Hitchcock, in particular, North by Northwest, and it has an ending lifted from The Man Who Knew Too Much. But, it is a statement on the Big Brother society we think we're living in. LaBeouf is a very likeable male lead, and it has good support from Rosario Dawson and Billy Bob Thornton. It's just big, dumb fun. Nothing more, nothing less. :P 3/5 Raising Arizona (1987), after the noirish thriller debut of Blood Simple (1984), Joel and Ethan Coen followed it up with a wild comedy masterpiece, the likes of which they've never come close to trying again. It has petty criminal H.I. McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) falling for policewoman Edwina (Holly Hunter), who always seems to take his mugshot every time he goes to jail. They marry, but cannot have children, as Ed is infertile. They soon hear of local unpainted furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona becoming father to quintupelets, so they plan to steal one, after which, trouble emerges. With this film, the Coen's prove they were no flash-in-the-pan after Blood Simple, and they were brave enough to follow it up with an absolutely bonkers screwball/slapstick comedy like this, but we've come to expect it from them now. It's fast, furious and very, very funny!! Nicolas Cage has never been better since, Holly Hunter should work with the Coen's more, and look out for appearances from their regulars like John Goodman and Frances McDormand!! Without this film, it's doubtful that My Name Is Earl would ever have existed. :P 5/5