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Notebook Reviews: BILLY ELLIOT

Stephen Daldry. 2000. Billy Elliot is a solid comedy-drama. The acting here is good – and young Jamie Bell gives as strong performance as the title character. The music is great – especially the T-Rex tunes. This features some fine [...]

July 20, 2024

Notebook Reviews: DEATH BECOMES HER

Robert Zemeckis – 1992 Director Robert Zemeckis delivers a delicious black comedy with Death Becomes Her. The lead trifecta – Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis have a great old time. Streep and Hawn chew the scenery, but Willis [...]

July 13, 2024

Jason Lee, Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London and Claire Forlani in Mallrats

Notebook Reviews: MALLRATS

Kevin Smith – 1995 Writer-director Kevin Smith‘s Mallrats is a hugely entertaining – and very funny comedy. Derided on its initial release, this has so much to recommend and it stands as one of Smith’s finest efforts. [...]

July 12, 2024

Notebook Reviews: JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

Henry Levin – 1959 This adaptation of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an exceptional family adventure film. It really hits the spot.  Henry Levin directs with verve, creating a sense of wonder as an on-point  James [...]

July 9, 2024

Notebook Reviews: STRIPES

Ivan Reitman – 1981 Stripes is an enjoyable enough comedy from director Ivan Reitman. There’s a great turn from Bill Murray (is there ever a bad one?) and Harold Ramis is wonderful – but this has dated somewhat. It doesn’t [...]

July 8, 2024

Behind The Scenes: Will Smith On The Set Of I AM LEGEND

Director Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend is a pretty decent stab at adapting Richard Matheson’s seminal 1954 sci-fi/horror novel of the same name for the screen. Having said that, this Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich written movie isn’t as [...]

July 7, 2024

Noteboook Reviews: THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

Clint Eastwood – 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales is a truly enjoyable western with a very good performance central from Clint Eastwood. The direction may lack visual verve, but it’s still well constructed with plenty of humour sprinkled [...]

July 6, 2024

Whoa! 25 Years Of THE MATRIX

The Matrix is 25 years old – a quarter of a century. Whoa, where does time go? One of the defining movies in cinema history, The Matrix pretty much came from nowhere back in 1999 and changed the face of how science fiction and action movies [...]

April 1, 2024

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