Rash of Bacon Part 1: Apollo 13
As you regular cinema goers will know, there’s a really annoying Kevin Bacon advert that’s shown before every. Single. Film. It features Bacon reprising various characters for a conversation with […]
Author Archives: Alex Chafey
9 Actors who should be in The Expendables 3 but won’t be
No sooner had The Expendables 2 been released than speculation began about who would be in the next one. Nicholas Cage was quickly announced, and a handful of other names have […]
Dirty Pretty Things
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a doctor by trade, but since illegally migrating to the UK he works as a cab driver and a hotel night security officer, living in fear […]
A Single Man
A Single Man follows an English professor called George (Colin Firth) as he attempts to live his life following the death of his partner Jim (Matthew Goode). A moving drama, […]
Duel- An analogy for the internet troll
Every time I watch Spielberg’s superb debut Duel I’m blown away by the brilliance of its simplicity. The whole film is essentially one long car chase and pure suspense from start to […]
Avatar gets a sequel, and another…and another
We recently got an official announcement, after months of speculation, that the long-awaited Avatar sequel will be followed by not one but two more films, but is this a good […]
Meeting Evil
In Meeting Evil, estate agent John (Luke Wilson), is shaken out of his mundane suburban life when a mysterious stranger (Samuel L Jackson dressed as a Quaker) knocks on his […]
Badasses Called John
John. John John John. According to the internet it comes from Hebrew and means ‘God is gracious’, so why’s it such a tough guy name? Well, it’s because in the […]
Doubt
At a solemn, grey Catholic school in 1960s America, the feared principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the parish priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), of behaving inappropriately towards a student, […]
Demolition Man
Warning: this film is going to take a bit of explaining. Demolition Man was made in 1993. Its opening is set in the then-future of 1996, where a rogue cop […]
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