I’m hoping not to get any letters of complaint from any X-Men fanatics out there with this piece, let me first remind everyone that I’m a comic book fan as well, and the X-Men stories are epics that, for me are as important culturally as the Lord of The Rings (no, I did not just [...]

Phoenix: You would die for them. Wolverine: Not for them. For you. First of all people need to get over their preconceptions about their precious X-men, they need to understand that this movie doesn’t care if the Phoenix was an alien entity that took control of Jean (and not a dual personality), they also need [...]

A Chicago advertising executive, Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke accident gives him the ability to read women’s minds. At first, this ‘gift’ provides Nick with way too much information, but he begins to realise that he can use it to good effect, especially when it comes [...]

In the game of luck, it’s not who wins or loses – it’s who collects that counts! What if someone in your town won the lottery? What if he were dead? And all you had to do to claim it was to convince everyone – to lie!(blurb from the video cover) Someone in the small [...]

Time magazine termed this movie a ‘contemplative action movie, an interior thriller’. It’s set on an idyllic island (based on Ko Pha-Ngan island, off the eastern coast of Thailand), with ‘beautiful people living in an unruffled commune, the symbiosis of modern man and primal nature’. A group of young peace-loving internationals seek to create paradise [...]

The Bone Collector is a ‘whodunnit’ film about a serial killer in New York, who leaves cryptic clues at the scenes of murders. Denzel Washington plays the role of a forensic criminologist, Lincoln Rhyme, crippled in the line of duty, is confined to bed and dependent on round the clock medical supervision. He is pressed [...]

The film explores the relationship between Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), a prison guard on Death Row (E block) at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, and a prisoner John Coffey (Michael Clark Duncan). The film is based on a six part serialised story by Stephen King (1995). The story deals with trust, love, compassion, and miracles that happen [...]

This is another comic-book-come-movie blockbuster, it’s not as dark and adult-oriented as the latest Batman Begins movie, this is for the younger people in the audience, full of fun, action, CGA and low brow humour. A group of scientists get caught in a space storm changing their DNA at a molecular level, the results are [...]

The Hurricane is based on the inspiring true life story of Robin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. Carter’s story inspired Bob Dylan’s international best selling single ‘Hurricane’. He was one of the best boxers of his time, a young man whose dreams of winning the middle-weight boxing title were destroyed when he was arrested at the peak of [...]

The Insider traces the story of Geoffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), unexpectedly dismissed from his job as a tobacco industry executive. He was gradually persuaded by Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) from the CBS ’60 Minutes’ team to ‘blow the whistle’ on the company despite a confidentiality agreement, to call them to account for blatantly lying that [...]