Archive for July, 2007


Disney to Stop Smoking

Disney have announced they are to remove smoking from its family-oriented movies. That’s a fairly big and bold move for any film company. Disney were perhaps the best placed and most expected to make it, but still.


Trailer Roundup

Apple seems to have dumped a lot of trailers online in the last couple of days (either that or my RSS feed reader couldn’t keep up). Those I liked to look of were:

Vantage Point
I like Dennis Quaid as an actor. In this he plays a secret service agent …


Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Review

I should probably start by saying that of all the Harry Potter books, Order of the Phoenix is my least favourite. The book is very long, longer than it needs to be, Harry and the reader spend most of the book in the dark, and Harry spends most of …


Shoot ‘Em Up

It may not have the most interesting poster (on Apple at least), but Shoot ‘Em Up looks to be a good action movie nonetheless. This isn’t a slick Bruckheimer production, more along the lines of the Bourne movies; gritty and grim. It stars Monica Bellucci, Clive Owen and …


The Golden Compass

I have read all of the His Dark Materials trilogy (of which, The Golden Compass is the first part, although its true title is Northern Lights, they altered it for the US release, why do we keep pandering to them?) and while I was pleased they decided to make them …