10: JJ Abrams Let’s get this one out the way at the beginning. While countless people are moaning about how they’re sure Episode VII will just be one hour and a half long lens flare, it’s clear to me that these people are clearly morons. Let’s just examine what Abrams did with Star Trek: he […]
While there are mountains of films in which parents are the sole source of child angst, or unsupportive fathers try to lead unstable sons away from sensible decisions in order to get what they want (see: The Empire Strikes Back); it is always a joy to see parents that warm your heart. Some of these […]
Warning – colourful language and sexual imagery/references follow. Obviously. Let’s just start off that I didn’t go on some epic perverted quest to sit down and work out which films gave me the most morally ambiguous boner. I already had about two thirds of this list kicking round my brain and appearing like that uncle […]
The summer is over (at least it is on this side of the Atlantic where our annual week of blue-skied loveliness has been and gone) and therefore winter is coming, and will be upon us long before we’ve even thought about cleaning the barbeque. But worry not, because there is nothing better than curling up […]
We’ve all seen far too many movies these days and yet the film studios haven’t seemed to have cottoned on to the fact that we’ve seen every possible incarnation of every story ever with the same tired clichés spattered all over the place. Thing is, if we’re honest, like deep-down-confessing-on-your-deathbed-that-it-was-in-fact-you-who-took-the-cookie-from-the-cookie-jar honest, then we would be […]