Movie Review - Serenity

A group of semi-criminal ex soldiers travel through the galaxy from one job to another, trying to make their way, but two passengers cause more trouble then expected and suddenly the Alliance is after them.
Based upon the short lived Firefly series, Serenity is a well written, well made, very witty sci fi western. Stacked to [...]

Movie Review - Basic

A simple military training operation goes into the jungle in Panama and only 2 of the original 7 soldiers come out of the jungle alive. Tom Hardy is called in by his old friend to help the Provst Marshall discover what happened in the jungle.
John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson both revise similar roles from [...]

Movie Review - Bullitt

A San Francisco cop is ordered to protect a witness who is going to testify against the mob but when the witness is killed, the cop must find out who and why.
Steve McQueen stars in this classic cop movie that is perhaps most famous for its iconic Mustang vs Charger car chase. The movie itself [...]

Movie Review - Rules Of Engagement

When a US Marine is charged with defending an American embassy from violent protesteres, things end badly and the Marine is court martialed. He calls on his friend, who he fought with in Vietnam to defend him, even though his friend doesn;t believe he can win.
Samuel L Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones star in this [...]

Movie Review - Down With Love

A female author from New England travels to New York to get her book, Down With Love, published. In order to get the book publicized, the author and her editor try to get the most famous journalist and world renowned playboy to interview the author but things don’t go as planned.
While Down With Love was [...]

Movie Review - XXX State of the union

When a secret NSA base is taken out, Augustas Gibbons can only turn to one man to find out who is behind the attack, Darius Stone. After escaping prison, Stone tracks down who is responsible and finds the clues pointing to someone in the Whitehouse.
The first XXX was innovative, clever and enjoyable, partly because of [...]

Movie Review - I am Legend

A man survives in New York City three years after a man made cure for cancer mutates and kills the majority of the worlds population. By day he searches for a cure but by night he hides from those who the cure didn’t kill.
Will Smith stars in perhaps his hardest role to date, hard because [...]

Movie Review - Lucky Number Slevin

A guy visits New York to stay with his friend but when he arrives, his friend is missing and he is being mistaken for his friend by two groups of gangsters who want money from him. Did I mention the high class assassin who is also involved?
This is a witty movie, with sharp dialogue, cool [...]

Sci Fi September # 29 - Short Circuit

A military robot, designed as a solider suddenly becomes aware and for all intents and purposes, living. The military obviously want the robot back but Number 5 has developed a mind of its own!
This movie could have gone in one of two ways, either a crazy killing machine that is unstoppable, indestructible, and pretty mean [...]

Sci Fi September # 28 - Alien vs Predator

Humans discover a giant pyramid under the ice of Antarctica. What they think is a a relic of a past civilisation turns out to be a killing ground for two breeds of killers. One is a cosmic hunter that lives to hunt while the other is a pure bred killing machine with acid for blood. [...]