Tourist Trap (1979)

Five friends are travelling along the back roads of America looking for tourist spots to hang out at and enjoy. After one friend goes missing whilst looking for a spare wheel to replace a flat, the other four friends get in a car and go look for him. As they’re driving they come across a […]

The Untold Story (1993)

Wong Chi Hang (Anthony Wong) is the owner of the Eight Immortals Restaurant in Macao. His establishment makes the finest pork buns anywhere, but just what exactly *is* inside those tasty buns? After a slew of body parts wash up on the beach Officer Lee (Danny Lee) and his team are led to the Eight […]

Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)

Years ago Richard (Paddy Considine) left his home town and his younger brother Anthony (Toby Kebbell), who is mentally challenged, to join the army. He returns to his home town to find that while he was away a group led by Sonny (Gary Stretch) tortured and bullied his brother. Now that he’s back, he goes […]

Escape Plan (2013)

Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) and his business partner Lester Clark (Vincent D’Onofrio) run a company which tests prisons all across America. Ray is put into various prisons and exposes their weaknesses and escapes, thus helping future prisons to be designed so that they are escape proof. Ray is asked by the CIA to test out […]

The General (1998)

Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) was a notorious Dublin criminal who was shot dead in 1994. This movie charts his life from lowly shoplifter, to one of the most prolific armed robbers in Ireland. It opens up with Cahill’s death, and is then played through from his childhood through to his adult life. Martin Cahill is […]

The ‘Burbs (1989)

Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) is on holiday at home, looking for some peace and quiet. However Ray’s peace is shattered when he and his neighbours realise that nobody as seen Walter (Gale Gordon) since the new family, The Klopeks, moved in. Together with neighbours Lt. Mark Rumsfield (Bruce Dern) a crazed ex solider, and Art […]

The Birdcage (1996)

Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) is the owner of The Birdcage, one of the hottest clubs on Miami Beach. His partner Albert Goldman (Nathan Lane) is the star attraction of the club. Their lives are thrown into disarray when Armand’s son, Val (Dan Futterman), tells his father that he’s getting married…to a woman! Val is getting […]

Hellgate (1989)

It’s the 1950’s. A biker gang stop off at a roadside diner, just to cause havoc. A beautiful girl called Josie comes in to the diner and is set upon by the bikers. She is then kidnapped by the bikers and taken to the town of Hellgate. When they get to Hellgate, Josie manages to […]

Nurse Betty (2000)

Betty Sizemore (Renee Zellweger) is a waitress at a local diner. She spends every moment she can watching her favourite soap opera and swooning over the main character Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear). Betty is married to a sleazy used car salesman called Del (Aaron Eckhart). Del has been involved in a deal with some […]

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)

Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has been around for ages, however this is the characters first foray into movies. I must be honest and say that Alan is funnier in the movie world, than he was in the TV world. Alan Partridge works for North Norfolk Digital, a radio station in Norwich. He’s been there for […]

Severance (2006)

A group of work colleagues from a weapons company called Palisade Defence, are on a team building exercise in Eastern Europe. After the bus drops them off due to the road being blocked, the group decide to walk the rest of the way to the house they’ll be staying at during their trip. However they […]

Braindead aka Dead Alive (1992)

Mothers boy Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) lives at home under the ever watchful eye of his overbearing mother Vera (Elizabeth Moody). Vera hounds Lionel every minute of the day, getting him to do chores and constantly putting him down. Lionel longs for a better life. He gets an idea of what that might be like […]

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

In terms of ‘cult movies’, you don’t get more cult than Don Coscarelli’s  horror comedy ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’. Based on a short story by Joe R. Lansdale, this movie plays with the ‘what if’ scenario of Elvis and if he is still alive. Here we have an aging Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell, who is now living […]

Bio-Dome (1996)

Okay, before I start this review let me just get a few things out of the way. Things that concern this movie and others like it. I like low brow comedies like this, I make no apologies for that. Unlike popular magazines like Empire and Total Film, I do not seek to appeal to the […]

Mo’ Money (1992)

This is another one that I file under ‘guilty pleasures’. I like it and I’m not afraid to admit it. I understand that it’s rotten tomato or imdb score might not be the best, but we all have certain movies we like that others don’t, this is one of those movies. I watched it years […]

The Quiet Man (1952)

I’ll start off by saying that I have never really been a John Wayne fan. I have no love for his westerns and really didn’t ever have much interest for any of his other movies. However that being said, I absolutely adore this movie. The whimsical tale set in Ireland just captured my heart when […]

Very Bad Things (1998)

Stag night’s are a tradition that every man about to be married must undertake. Sometimes however they don’t go to plan, sometimes very bad things can happen. Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) is due to marry Laura Garrety (played by Cameron Diaz). His buddies Charles (Leland Orser), Michael (Jeremy Piven) and Adam (Daniel Stern) decide to […]

Slap Shot (1977)

This is the reason I love doing this blog. I love it because I can bring films like this to your attention that I know many haven’t seen. Directed by George Roy Hill who also directed Paul Newman in ‘Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid’, this riotous comedy is one you will definitely watch again. […]

Drive (1997)

Drive is an action movie from the 90’s that i’m pretty sure not many people know about. It sat on video shop shelves looking like a multitude of other straight to DVD actioners, but this my fellow fiends is another beast altogether. It’s an action movie that get’s straight into things and stays that way […]