Quick Reviews

Director: Robert Benton
Certification: 15
Reviewed: 09/10/06

Barry Brown and Jeff Bridges star in this buddy movie set during the American Civil War. Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), an upstanding young man, goes on the run to escape from being conscripted into the Army. He bumps into and later teams up with Jake Rumsey (Jeff Bridges) and his gang of naive ruffians who are heading out west. The group may believe they are fully capable of looking after themselves but find life as desperados much tougher than they had originally counted on.

Director: Chris Columbus
Certification: PG
Reviewed: 07/07/05
Also Known As: Der 200 Jahre Mann (Germany)

Andrew (Robin Williams) an NDR-114 robot, is purchased to do household chores but it soon turns out that he has an 'anomaly' and begins to experience emotions, because of this Andrew wants to become more human. With the desire to find robots that show the same characteristics as Andrew does he comes across Oliver Platt, a robot upgrader who can help in his quest to be more human. Although the idea of a robot wanting to be more human is interesting, Bicentennial Man is more a vehicle for crass sentimentally than anything else.

Director: Ridley Scott
Certification: 15
Reviewed: 13/02/05

Ridley Scott's stunning sci-fi set in 2019 Los Angeles. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) has the job to hunt down four replicants (artificial humans) that have escaped an off-world colony back home to find their maker, Dr. Eldon Tyrell, in the attempt to extend their lifetime of four years. One of the 'real' science fiction greats.

Director: David Lynch
Certification: 18
Reviewed: 02/02/06

Blue Velvet is one of David Lynch's dark visions. This small town thriller demonstrates that behind closed doors, in everyday suburban life terrors can occur that are unimaginable to the ordinary citizen. Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) finds a severed ear in some grass that leads him to discover the mysterious Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), one of the most disturbing characters to appear in film.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Certification: 18
Reviewed: 21/02/05
Also Known As: Dracula

Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, is an enjoyable romp with Gary Oldman playing with enthusiasm the afore mentioned batty blood sucker. There are many good touches in this visually extravagant rendition of Bram Stoker's classic.

Director: David Cronenberg
Certification: 18
Reviewed: 12/07/06
Also Known As: David Cronenberg's The Brood (Canada)

Therapist Dr Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) has developed a form of therapy called 'Psychoplasmics' that encourages patients with mental problems to physically manifest their rage in the form of blisters and such. Frank Carveth's (Art Hindle) estranged wife Nola (Samantha Eggar) is being treated by Dr Raglan at the Somafree Institute where she is a resident, but after discovering scratches and bites on the back of his daughter and the brutal murders of Nola's parents, Frank begins to suspect that the institute is somehow involved. Croneberg's first notable movie was influenced by his own messy divorce and custody battle, not even the children are spared the horrific goings on. Prepare to be disturbed.