Monthly Archives: January 2009
#238 – Great Expectations (1946)
I was undecided about this movie after watching it. I gave myself a week before reviewing it and I’m glad I did. My initial thoughts were not the best. After a while though I’ve realised the characters were interesting enough that I can’t seem to forget them and I even want to revisit them. Surely [...]
#239 – La Dolce vita (1960)
What an impeccably strange movie. Random event follows random event. From party to party we skip along with the self-indulging world of the rich, famous and most certainly spoilt elite class. Marcello is right in the middle of all the parties and yet deep down he’s drawn to the simple life offered by his girlfriend [...]
#240 – Rocky (1976)
The Italian Stallion. Mr Rocky Balboa. It’s been years since I’ve seen this movie and I enjoyed it today as much as I did when I was a young kid. Sylvester Stallone plays an out of luck boxer who’s about to disappear into nothingness when the world champ offers him a crack at the title [...]
#241 – Planet of the Apes (1968)
Ok so I understand that for its time this was an excellent movie with decent costumes and locations. Even so, it’s rubbish. The acting is absurdly poor and the camera work was noticeably distracting. Cheap zooms and silly pans. I’m certainly no expert on camera work but it was an enjoyment killer for me. Charlton [...]
IMDb Preview Firefox Addon
A while ago I discovered an add-on for Firefox called IMDb Preview. Each time you mouse over a link from IMDb it displays in a little pop up box a quick summary of a title or an actor. You can set parameters and size which is handy and the pop up box isn’t one of [...]