Surrogates

Posted on Oct 21, 2009 in Movies Surrogates offers a interesting concept that states that the majority of Earth’s population no longer spend their time living their life but rather in the inhabiting the surrogate bodies which are highly functional robots that are have attributes similar to humans in most aspects only more powerful. Bruce Willis takes on the role of an FBI agent, Tom Geer that uses one of these surrogates...
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I Sell The Dead

Posted on Sep 12, 2009 in Movies Two weekends ago London’s Empire Cinema at Leicester Square was the host of Freakfest 2009. Freakfest is a pretty large scale film festival centred on horror movies. The festival ran from Thursday till Sunday with people having the option of buying whole festival passes, day passes or single viewing tickets. I chose to buy a single ticket to go see I Sell The Dead starting Dominic Monaghan...
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Time Traveler’s Wife

Posted on Sep 10, 2009 in Movies Romantic science fiction is a pretty scarce genre. Sure there are multiple science fiction movies that contain a romantic sub plot or two but few specifically made with romance as its main focus and the science fiction as a small addition. Given this scarcity The Time Traveler’s Wife is rather unique. The movie tells the tale of one Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire. Henry is a young man who...
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The Soloist

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 in Movies There are a few actors that you can always count on to choose roles in films that turn out to be excellent. One of these actors is Robert Downey Jr. Now Jamie Foxx is not one of these sure hit actors but he does have a pretty high hit rating. Consequently it is a good bet that a movie starring these two actors is going to be a good watch and that is surely what The Soloist is. The Soloist stars...
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The Ugly Truth

Posted on Sep 7, 2009 in Movies Ahh romantic comedies the genre that the average 18-35 demographic can never get enough of. No wait they have had their fill of this stuff, well the guys anyway. However we keep getting dragged back into the embrace of these most evil of all movie genres by that which is dearest to us of all Gods creatures, women. The Ugly Truth is such a stereo-typical romantic comedy that you don’t have...
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Posted on Sep 6, 2009 in Movies When I was a kid my three favourite sets of toys were LEGOs, Transformers and then G.I. Joes. I’m not talking about the eleven and a half inch monstrosities which might as well have been Ken of Barbie fame dressed in an army uniform. I’m of course referring to the three and 3/4 inch foot soldiers based on the classic G.I. Joe cartoons and comics (A Real American Hero). Hasbro has...
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