I was only thinking about The name of the rose the other day,havn't seen it in years. I love that film.

Dark Knight Awesome movie but while Heath Ledgers Joker is great and does create another iconic version of the Joker. I feel it unfair to give him all the praise and gloss over the fact that it is a Batman film. Bale is a natural as Batman/Bruce Wayne. Harvey Dent was played really well by Aaron Eckhart. Only fault is Maggie Gyllehhaal who just seem out of place in the movie. Overall good story with great acting and a definite must see 9/10

Moonrise (1st view) – Film noir is a hugely hit and miss affair for me, so I was weary of watching this,. Thankfully though, it manages to avoid most of the pitfalls that makes the genre so annoying and tiresome. It stars Dane Clark, who has been tormented all his life as his father was hung for murder when he was a child. During a fight with one antagonist he ends up killing the man, and fears he has become his father. Gail Russell appears as his girlfriend, and Lloyd Bridges makes an appearance. Tense and engaging, and it looks superb – 4/5 Balls Of Fury (1st view) – I suppose a film about an underground Ping Pong tournament could have some comic potential, but any such potential was completely lost in this film. Not even Christopher Walken could save it. I think I laughed once and smiled three times, not a great result for a comedy. Still, it features a brief appearance from Patton Oswalt, and this being the first film I’ve seen him in since I saw Ratatouille, it was vaguely interesting to put a face to the name – 2/5 We Own The Night (1st view) – Joaquin Phoenix owns a nightclub, much to the dismay of his father and brother, Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg, both officers of the law. When his club is raided in an attempt to arrest a Russian drug lord, leading ti multiple assassination attempts on his family, Phoenix leaves the life he knows behind and joins the police force. A touch preachy at times, but it’s well acted by all involved, and it’s great to see Duvall on the big screen – 4/5

Kevin Coster plays Earl Brooks, who is a loving husband and father and a successful businessman, who also just happens to be a serial murderer, with an inner voice (played by William Hurt) always goading him to kill more people. The film gets going when a man sees and photographs Mr. Brooks killing 2 people, but this guy isn't interested in blackmail...Add that to a determined cop with her own problems (Demi Moore) on his tail and something mysterious happening with his daughter and Mr. Brooks' life starts to get a bit more difficult than he's used to. I was expecting this film to be mediocre at best, but was pleasantly surprised. Costner gives a good against-type performance and the pace zips along nicely, with a script that doesn't patronise the viewer. 4/5

The Dark Knight (2008), Batman Begins 2, and this is also the best Batman film too!! :D This has Bruce Wayne's alter-ego crusade Batman (Christian Bale) and Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman) determined to crack down on organised crime in Gotham City, they've teamed up with popular district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to put a stop to it, but there's a new threat in the city, in the form of a psychotic, menacing bank robber known as The Joker (Heath Ledger), who seems to be one step ahead of the Caped Crusader. ;) Director Christopher Nolan has a great time creating a dark mood and has a ball creating the jaw-dropping action sequences, but also has time for deception here and there, (typical of him.) Whilst Bale gives Batman a dark, human quality, the film belongs to Heath, having the time of his life playing the Joker with much demented and horrific glee, Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero he ain't. What a pity poor Heath never lived to see it. :sad: But, his legacy will live on, and along with the rest of the cast and crew, has given the Batman series a good name once again!! :D 5/5

Saw this at the cinema and I really enjoyed it action packed and plenty to enjoy. Some gorgeous scenes particularly at the begining as this time the children enter Narnia leaving behind the humdrum of a train station, set around the time of WW2,to a beautiful sun filled beach. Shades of Harry potter there, hate to compare but you cant help it. Some wonderful new characters,Nikabrick , Trumpkin and the swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep the voice done by Eddie Izaard. I saw an improvement in Edmund he was much more confident this time still not sure about Peter he's still a bit wet at times. I read this in the paper about the Ben Barnes who plays Prince Caspian made me chuckle. "Barnes may have the jaw-line and soft skin of the kind that excites fee-paying schoolgirls" :lol: Admittingly he was a bit stereotype but I think apart from the accent which faltered here and there he did ok.. Slight improvement on the first one I will give it 3.5/5

Batman(1966) - 4/10 Batman - 9/10 Batman Returns - 9/10 Batman Forever - 6/10 Batman & Robin - 5/10 Batman Begins - 8/10 The Dark Knight - 9/10 Gotham Knight - 2/10

Spider (2002), David Cronenberg's first film in the UK, it's a dark and bleak psychological drama. It has Dennis 'Spider' Cleg (Ralph Fiennes), who has been in a mental institution for 20 years suffering from schizophrenia. Now, he has been released and it put in a halfway house in the East End of London owned by Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave). He revisits his old haunts, both physically and mentally, he tries to find out what drove him to madness, he relives his childhood where dyfunction between his Mum (Miranda Richardson) and Dad (Gabriel Byrne) could have driven him to madness. It's hardly an uplifting film, but Cronenberg paints a dark and eerie picture of London stuck in time, and he also gets good performances out of his lead actors, and it does have a few deceptive twists throughout that will keep your attention. 4/5

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (5th view) – Pretty much the only frat pack comedy that’s actually worthwhile. It might not be high art, but it is very funny. The Laurel and Hardy fan in me can’t help but laugh at the painful slaptstick, usually aimed at Justin Long (“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”) and some of Ben Stiller’s one-liners always tickle the funny bone (“Nobody makes me bleed my own blood”). Some good support from the likes of Hank Azaria, Rip Torn and Alan Tudyk make this highly watchable – 4/5

A Knight's Tale (4th view) - Scanning my DVD shelves, I was in the mood for a film that was light-hearted but not a comedy, action-y without being filled with explosions and something that doesn't tax the brain. My gaze settled on this and it fits the bill completely. Not seen it for a few years, and it's my first view of the longer cut (not really required, but nothing harmful either) All in all, this film is just great fun, with a bunch of likeable actors playing likeable characters, (all the good guys - Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Laura Fraser, Alan Tudyk and Paul Bettany - just seem to work together wonderfully), a great "boo hiss" villain and a wonderful anachronistic sense of history. There should be more films about jousting. Infinitely more interesting to watch than boxing, and we get enough of them! Just a shame that Robbie "no talent" Williams murdered We Will Rock You - 4/5

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Steven Spielberg did this for Stanley Kubrick, who had worked on it for 2 decades before his death. Set in the future, it has company Cybertronics, which created humanic robots called Mechas, ran by Prof. Hobby (William Hurt), creating a Mecha child called David (Haley Joel Osment) who has the ability to love. He is -*test*-('")ed on Henry and Monica Swinton (Sam Robards and Frances O'Connor), whose own child is fighting a rare illness. When their son recovers, David is dumped by his adoptive mother, but longs to be real, so that she will love him again. David teams up with male prostitute Mecha Gigolo Joe (Jude Law), on this quest. It's visually perfect, and it does have alot of mindblowing imagery, and there are a couple of shots that channel Kubrick's way of filmmaking, but it's a very unconventional sci-fi/fantasy, it's hiding a much darker ending than it's letting on, and you could say it goes on for much longer than it needs to, but it does make for a great visual feast in the long term. It's fair to say Stanley would have been proud. ;) 4/5 The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder's multi-Oscar-winning romantic comedy-drama. It has New York accountant C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), who always willing to please his peers, has his apartment being temporarily commendeered by his fellow employees for extramarital affairs. Baxter's boss Jeff D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), wants in on the game for his adulterous flings, and offers Baxter a big promotion in return, but he's seeing lift operator Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), someone who Baxter currently has eyes for. Wilder's speciality is character pieces, and he creates a very tightly focused film, mostly set in the titular apartment, (if not, Baxter's place of work.) Alot of Wilder's best films were with Jack Lemmon, and he plays Baxter with a wry weariness, especially when he can't use his own apartment for his employees, MacLaine adds a vunerable side to the film, whilst MacMurray plays a smarmy brat to the hilt. Wilder was inspired to do it after seeing Brief Encounter (1945), and he was intrigued by the plight of one unseen character. That small idea turned into cinematic gold-dust in Wilder's hands, it's a film which will last for all time. It's a lot darker than it makes out, but it makes for an enjoyable 2 hours. 5/5

Flightplan (2nd view) – Returning home to America with her daughter, Jodie Fosters falls asleep only to wake up and find her daughter missing, with not one of the 400 people on board the plane knowing where she is or even remembering seeing her As films go, this must be one of the most implausible but taken with a pinch of salt it rattles along entertainingly. It’s always nice to see Foster, and even though this shares many similarities in both style and tone with her previous film, Panic room, she makes it worthwhile – 3/5 The Other Boleyn Girl (1st view) – I haven’t read the source novel for this, and my knowledge of the period is pretty much restricted to stuff I learnt 18 years ago, so I can’t compare it to the book or say for certain just which aspects of the film are complete deviations from the truth. No matter though, for as a period drama filled with political shenanigans, it works quite well. Once Natalie Portman’s Anne Boleyn starts her scheming, the films never lets up. I’m not the grea-*test*-('") fan of Portman, but she is very good here. Erica Bana as Henry VIII doesn’t have much to do but look very angry (but he does it very well, I wouldn’t want to get on his wrong side). As ever, Scarlet Johansson lets the aside down, utterly useless. On he whole though, highly engaging – 4/5 The Goat (2nd view) – A Buster Keaton short from 1921. Buster is mistakenly taken to be a notorious murdered and the first half of the film features him trying to outrun a bunch of policemen. It’s as remarkable inventive and stunt-filled as anything else he’s done and is superbly entertaining. The second half falters slightly after he’s made his escape and a romantic subplot is chucked in, but overall it’s a winner – 4/5 The Dark Knight (1st view) – It’s hard for me this one. I really did love it but for some reason, I just didn’t manage to hold my attention as much as I had hoped. There is really nothing I can fault with the film beyond that except for, perhaps, the action scenes. They never delivered that heart pounding rush that they should have and I thought the final fight was quite choppy and hard to follow. Still, all the actors where on top form. Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t my favourite actress but thankfully banished all memory of Katie Holmes. Heath Ledger was astonishingly good (his pencil trick as fantastic!) and Aaron Eckhart was equally impressive. There is a superb sense of dread throughout and quite a few times I was on the edge of my seat, close to shouting at the screen “No, don’t do that!” (Isn’t it great when films provoke such a response?) and some great dark humour. I think in some ways my expectations were so high, reviews and acclaim had me almost believing that this would a life changing events, and it was never going to be. Taken on it’s own though, or indeed as a single entry in the ever increasing roster of superhero films, it’s superb and there’s so much right wit it I have to give it top marks, despite it’s faults – 5/5

Should have been great, but only succeeded in being tedious. 2/5

Hitman (1st view) - Ha ha, this was just awful. Great fun picking out all the truly terrible bits. The plot makes no sense at all, the film features some of the worst acting this side of Bradford Dillman in The Swarm, and there's better choreographed action scenes in a Mr Men cartoon. Brilliantly bad - 2/5