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Notebook Reviews: PRIMARY COLORS

Mike Nichols – 1998. The great Mike Nichols delivers an interesting political satire in the shape of Primary Colors. The film features an excellent cast and John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton and Kathy Bates all dive head-first [...]

February 15, 2022

Behind The Scenes: Mick Garris & Sam Raimi On The Set Of THE STAND

Clocking-in at over 800 pages, Stephen King’s 1978 sci-fi/horror novel, The Stand is an epic battle of good versus evil. The TV adaptation was also an epic event when it first aired in 1994, garnering huge viewing figures and scoring impressive [...]

July 1, 2021

Academy Awards 2020: Joker Leads The Oscar Pack

It’s not really a surprise that the multi-award winning, billion dollar grossing Joker is leading the pack with 11 nominations at the 2020 Academy Awards. If I were a betting man, I’d say that Joaquin Phoenix is a lock to win the Best [...]

January 14, 2020

The 2020 Golden Globes Full Nominations List

It’s easy to become cynical when you write about movies. You get to see the good, the bad and the ugly and sometimes that makes you jaded. However, there’s nothing like watching quality movies succeed and when you see the list of [...]

December 9, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Flying The Flagg For The Classic 1990s Miniseries of Stephen King’s THE STAND

Clocking-in at over a mind-boggling 800 pages, Stephen King’s 1978 sci-fi/horror novel, The Stand is an epic battle of good versus evil. This TV miniseries was also an epic event when it first aired in 1994, garnering huge viewing figures and [...]

October 16, 2019

Blu-ray Review: James Spader & Susan Sarandon In The Yuppie Fuelled Romantic Dramedy WHITE PALACE

White Palace is a slick and stylish yuppie soap opera which is the type of film that could only have come out of Hollywood in the 1980s/1990s. James Spader is a young, successful advertising executive who hooks-up with Susan Sarandon’s older [...]

November 5, 2017

DVD Review: Dustin Hoffman Leads The Cast Of Music Drama THE CHOIR

Boychoir Good Will Hunting or Vocal Whiplash is the best way to describe Francois Girard’s The Choir. This low key drama follows troubled Stet (Garrett Wareing), an 11 year old who is shipped-off to a boy choir boarding school following the death [...]

October 4, 2015

Bruce Willis Takes To Broadway In Stephen King’s MISERY; Will It Reignite His Passion For Acting?

Bruce Willis has come under a lot of fire over the last decade or so for the film choices he has made. Willis is a versatile actor but he has defaulted to playing ‘Bruce Willis‘ in a lot of movies which aren’t worth his talent. I think [...]

March 7, 2015

DVD Review: Owen Wilson In Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

It’s pretty much standard to hail every new Woody Allen film as a “return to form”. Now, Midnight in Paris may not be vintage Allen, but it is one of his finer efforts in recent years, and like many of Allen’s films over the last decade or [...]

February 24, 2012