Archive for August, 2009


Mid-Sized Scifi Movies

Jesse Alexander has written an article over at io9 titled What The Hell Happened to the Mid-Sized Scifi Movie?.

You could argue that for most genres, the only ones in the ‘middle ground’ these days seem to be rom-coms or contemporary dramas. Although looking at box office mojo there’s quite …


Scary Movies

I found this a while back but never got around to posting it for some reason, an article by Mark Kermode titled ‘Should we shield our children from Harry Potter?’

The thing that caught me was this:

Yet when I took a group of kids to see Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, I …


Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review

Before writing this review I went back and looked at the reviews I had written for the other films and novels. I was surprised at how few there were:

My review of Order of the Phoenix
My review of Goblet of Fire
My review of the Half-blood Prince novel

I’ve been writing posts …


Peter Jackson Introducing Lovely Bones

So I was watching The Lovely Bones trailer and it’s introduced by director Peter Jackson himself, but what’s happened to him! He’s thin!

Compare that to an image of him accepting the Oscar (courtesy of Xander89 at Wikipedia):


How do you decide which movie to watch?

The Guardian as an interesting article asking how we decide which movie is worth shelling out for at the cinema.