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Category Archives: Movies
An Evening With Al Pacino
I received a call yesterday (Saturday) from a dear friend asking whether I would like to attend a special event at the London Palladium with Al Pacino. The event was booked out within a few hours of being announced some … Continue reading
Movie Review: The Secret In Their Eyes
The Secret In Their Eyes is an Argentinian movie that won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. You can still watch it on BBC i-Player (available until this Sunday). I was going to post some notes about … Continue reading
Michael Caine Exhibition at the Museum of London
During lunchtime yesterday I popped into the Museum of London near the Barbican. It is a really wonderful museum with amazing artifacts from London’s history going back thousands of years to Stone Age times and earlier. An added bonus during … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Django Unchained
You already know what to expect from a Quentin Tarantino movie. In his seventh outing as writer-director, Tarantino reliably delivers the high body count, fantastically bloody violence, sharp dialogue and laughs that we have come to expect and look forward … Continue reading
Movie Review: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey
One of the first computer games I ever played was Melbourne House’s graphical text adventure, The Hobbit, produced for the ZX Spectrum back in the early 1980′s. I hadn’t read Tolkien’s book before I played the game and the result … Continue reading
Movie Review: Crash
Crash (2004) was on Film Four last night and I watched it because I had been so impressed with the writer-director Paul Haggis’s Million Dollar Baby which he had scripted the previous year. Well, just as I think no one … Continue reading
Movie Review: Skyfall
It’s the 50th anniversary of the Bond film series – the most successful movie franchise of all time – so how does Skyfall measure up against the rest of the 23 film series? Well, I went to watch Skyfall last … Continue reading
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises – The Weakest Link
Last Friday evening I took my son to see the final part of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy – The Dark Knight Rises. We had high hopes for this movie especially after the first two Batman installments and 2010′s Inception. What … Continue reading
Movie Review: Million Dollar Baby
On a Friday evening I try and make it a habit to watch a decent movie. Last night, I looked at what was on offer on the TV channels and nothing seemed to have generated much enthusiasm with the movie critics … Continue reading
The Player – An Exquisite Opening Take
Just after midnight on Saturday, after everyone was asleep in the house, I finally got round to watching Robert Altman’s splendid 1992 movie, The Player. I don’t have the time to go into much detail about the film, but, oh! … Continue reading
