Tag: film
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According to his Wikipedia entry, Mike Newell is best known for directing Four Weddings and Funeral, Donnie Brasco and Harry Potter and the Goblet of…
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is a pretty joyless affair. Set in a dystopian future, which is the not too distant 2027, it depicts a…
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The main selling point of 2013’s ‘Grudge Match’ is the notion of a match-up between Rocky and Raging Bull. But iconic though those two silver…
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1998’s ‘The Truman Show’ is something of a genre-defying movie, that also turned out to be ahead of its time. Had it been made more…
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2013 seemed to be the year for ‘Die Hard’ rip-offs that were set in the White House. Well, there were two of them anyway. The…
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There was something of a furore back in 2000 when Rene Zellweger was announced as the choice to take on the eponymous lead in the…
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It’s probably fair to say that 2004’s Mean Girls was not really aimed at me. It is, perhaps lazily, oft-referred to a ‘teen comedy’. I…
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2016’s Deadpool is technically Ryan Reynolds’ second big screen outing as the eponymous antihero. The less said about the first incarnation in 2009’s X-Men Origins:…
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1985’s Young Sherlock Holmes could, and possibly should, have been a beloved classic from my childhood. It ticks a lot of the boxes of the kind…
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Time for Door 11 of The Fourth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and in honour of the date we’re going to ‘turn it…
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1995’s Jumanji is an interesting concept (interesting enough to spawn spin offs and reboots in more recent times) but the movie itself feels a bit generic. Perhaps…
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1998’s The Waterboy is the kind of juvenile comedy you tend to associate with Adam Sandler. Which is maybe unfair to Adam Sandler because he has, in…
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As with most Wes Anderson films, I didn’t really like 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox when I first saw it, but I have come to appreciate it more…
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I was a pretty big fan of Kevin Smith movies in the nineties, but I haven’t really kept up to speed with much of his…
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Door 6 of The Fourth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and maybe it’s time to sort out that Christmas shopping. We could…
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Door 5 of The Third Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and perhaps it’s time to take it easy. Maybe kick back and relax…
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The Office is one of my favourite TV shows of all time. I actually like all versions of it that I’ve seen. I loved the US…
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Door 3 of The Fourth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films and we’re off to a magical land. Narnia to be precise. Today’s film…
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Door 2 of The Fourth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films brings us Martin Scorsese’s 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas. It would be foolish for…
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As if by magic December 2020 is upon us. And so must begin, whether anyone wants it to or not, The Fourth Annual James Proclaims…
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And so we arrive at day 31 of May 2020, which means that my month long homage to Star Wars can finally end. Which is…
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ has the dubious claim to fame of being the first Star Wars movie to make a loss at the box…
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Day 23 of me writing exclusively about Star Wars, purely on the basis that it’s currently May and I can entitle each post ‘May the…
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So, what’s the worst Star Wars movie in existence? Many people will have their views. A lot will tell you it’s ‘The Phantom Menace‘ and…
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Following on from 1984’s ‘Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure’, 1985’s ‘Ewoks, The Battle For Endor’ was another TV movie that somehow found itself in…
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Originally a TV movie for American audiences simply called ‘The Ewok Adventure’ this 1984 Star Wars spinoff was retitled ‘Caravan Of Courage: An Ewok Adventure’…
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So here we are, on the last of the Star Wars movies, collectively known as ‘The Skywalker Saga’. Episode IX of IX. The official ‘end…
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Expectations were quite possibly at an all time high when this one hit the cinemas. Not only had 2015’s ‘The Force Awakens’ been generally well-received…
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‘Return of the Jedi’ is the end of the story. It wraps everything up neatly. The Empire is beaten, the rebels are victorious, Luke is…
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And so, to the last of the original trilogy, a movie that is not quite as good as its predecessors but still much better than…
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Today is not Star Wars Day. That was yesterday. But I’m still writing about Star Wars. Because I’m doing that all month. Or for as…
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