The start of a new year means only one thing for film buffs like myself; awards season! Whether you love watching the ceremonies for the red carpet fashion, the presenter’s corny jokes or even to find out which movies will take away the prize, there is nothing better than sitting up half the night watching the live broadcast of the Golden Globes or, of course, the Oscars direct from Hollywood.
It is that time of year again, it comes round so fast, but year after year, you can always count of the Christmas romantic comedy movie. Just like Valentines day an all star cast movie is released to audiences, normally at family friendly ratings and brimming with storylines to leave you feeling all warm inside and in spirit of the relevant holiday.
This year is of course no different and this year the film New Years Eve, chock-full of a list actors and actresses is the tipped to be the movie of the season.
The grime-house era of cinema was wild; there was nothing contained or decent about it. Much like when pornography exploded, grime-house cinema was all about exploitation. Anything went, the more violent and subversive the better. During this time, no subject was safe, from domestic abuse to rape and murder.
One film born during that time was Hobo With A Shotgun – a disaster-fest of a movie which featured a hobo – or street person – taking revenge on a small town over-run by corruption. On paper it sounds like a half-decent movie idea, but sadly that is where it ends. Because once the film gets going – and this remake is just as vile as the original in terms of blood and guts and pointless mayhem – it really doesn’t stop until the end credits. That might be considered a good thing by some, but it certainly won’t be getting any extra points from this movie reviewer.
In fact, it’ll be very lucky if it gets any points at all.
here, really, is a film which should never have been made…
As with all grime-house films and video nasties, one thing this movie does do and do well is shock. Every aspect of it shocks – from the obscene murderous nature of the first few minutes to the terrible dialogue which doesn’t even deserve mention here – and if that’s what you’re after then this is the film for you. What Hobo is is a near-perfect remake of a terrible film. Sort of a back-handed compliment, really, but once you see it you’ll know what I mean.
If there are any points to be awarded at all – and I can’t believe I just said that – then they are to be awarded to this film for its sheer audacity. After all here, really, is a film which should never have been made in the first place. In that respect, I suppose you could say it’s a ballsy number (and Gavin from hr software from octopus certainly seems to think so…he really won’t stop going on about it…).
Here are a few other things which Hobo just about pulls off.
1) Putting Rutger Hauer in a lead role despite his age and looks. They’re hardly as bold as they once were. Quite an achievement.
2) Some fairly unique blood and guts based comic moments, the likes of which you will struggle to find in any other film, video nasty or otherwise.
Green Lantern has to be one of the silliest films released this year. Yet another entry added to the Juggernaut of comic book adaptations, the ‘Lantern'is perhaps one of the most heavily CGI enhanced films yet released.
The opening of the film is introduced by Geoffrey Rush’s instantly recognisable tones as he does a bit of exposition on what on earth (or should that be space?) the Green Lantern core is. Basically the film revolves around our hero Hal Jordan More
Are you fond of cars? What about really fast cars? What about chase scenes? Explosives? Drama? If you are, then you will love the movie Fast Five, the fifth movie in the Fast and Furious series.
The movie goes from one action scene to another action scene. The plot of the movie this time is about our heroes taking down the largest crime lord in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Also there is an US special agent played by Dwayne “The More
I’m not normally a fan of mainstream Horror movies. If I do feel the need to scare myself silly, then I will instinctively go for something like ‘REC’, ‘The Ring’(the original one of course) or ‘Let the Right One in’. However, I do have a bit of a soft spot for the ‘Final Destination’movies!
After watching Insidious at my local Cineworld in London this week, I felt rather intrigued about the concept of ‘out-of-body’experiences. While it is described as a horror film, there are occasional scenes of comedy (in an attempt to lighten up the mood, perhaps). Apparently, it is estimated that as many as 1 in 10 people have experienced the phenomena at some point in their lives. For a rare few it has even led to near-death experiences, as people become completely More
It was only very recently that I heard anything about this film spectacle Battle: Los Angeles. I should point out that this is not a review of that film. The only thing I have seen from it is a trailer, and that was enough. Once I saw the review on Film 2011 that was quite enough for me. I knew this wasn’t going to be one I would intentionally go and see.
We’ve exhausted the alien concept, haven’t we? You More
In the hands of anyone but legendary prolific director Spike Lee, 25th hour – based on the novel of the same name, which the film is truthfully based on – could well have been as interesting as watching someone fill storage space up while singing “I love to watch paint dry” in the monotone fashion of someone who has recently banged their head really quite hard. But alas, as anyone who has ever seen a Spike Lee film will More
Haven’t seen the Katherine Heigl film 27 Dresses yet? Don’t worry, you will. Film 4 have it playing every other day, taking up a valuable 2 hours of screen time that could be handed to a film that hasn’t been seen once, say, like the classic Netherlands thriller The Vanishing (Spoorloos is its original name). I have nothing against the film – quite the contrary, I’m a big Heigl fan, despite the fact she probably is a Botox addict – More
