Ghost Town Review

When Americans mock the English there's almost always a jibe about England's supposed lack of oral hygiene. That's why I found it amusing to see Ricky Gervais - an Englishmen - as dentist Bertram Pincus, living in New York and tending to the teeth of Americans.

Now, Pincus is clearly not a people person and straight up doesn't care about anyone but himself. This seems to be working fine for him so far if you ignore the fact that he's a lonely, unliked prick. When Pincus undergoes a minor procedure, there is a "complication". The side effect of which being that he can now see the GHOSTs that loiter around TOWN. Pincus is weirded out by the dead folk, but seems more disturbed by the botched operation than the bothersome apparitions.

Astro Boy Review

You knew the day would come. You know that no cherished childhood memory was safe. But you held out hope. you held out hope that when it was time for your beloved Astro Boy to be strapped into the remake chair, he would be given a few minor upgrades and a fresh coat of paint. Instead, he has been beaten beyond recognition by the bat of computer animated children's feature. It is with a heavy heart and a total lack of surprise that I must inform you the Astro Boy did not survive the procedure. This offensive marionette that bears his name may fool the children as they laugh and clap at its antics, but we adults are left bemused, asking "Who is responsible for this crime? Will no one be punished?" Before I continue, you may want to go and change into something black. No? You're right. Astro wouldn't have wanted that.

Inglorious Basterds Review

Inglorious Basterd is Quniton Tarantino's latest effort and this time round he is both writer and director. The film is set during the second world war in Nazi occupied France and focuses on the war taking place off the battlefield. While there is indeed action, this is decidedly more thriller than action flick.

We meet Lieutenant Aldo Reine (Brad Pitt) as he assembles a crack team of Jewish-Amercian soldiers to drop in behind enemy lines and engage in some good, old fashioned guerrilla warfare to both thin out the Nazi ranks and lower the morale of German soldiers by scaring the living shit out of them.
Of course, this is more that a simple tale of Nazi head hunting, but revealing any more of the plot here would only diminish your enjoyment of the film.

District 9 Review

District 9 is set in an alternate 2010 where it has been 20 years since a derelict alien spacecraft has come to rest above the South African city of Johannesburg. The impoverished, "worker class" aliens have wound up occupying the slums directly below their ship which has been rendered inoperable, assumedly by the detachment of a command module of some kind. While the aliens, or "prawns" as they are unaffectionately known, are afforded the same human rights as their terrestrial counterparts, they essentially live like animals and are regarded as such by the surrounding populace. The prawns haven't done themselves any favours by scavenging (see "stealing") anything that isn't nailed down and exhibiting extremely disruptive and often destructive behaviour. Their inability to integrate has resulted in them being separated by chain link and razor wire, turning the slums of Johannesburg into an intergalactic refugee camp dubbed District 9.

Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince Review

First things first: I haven’t read a single Harry Potter book. This is NOT a book review. I’m just giving my opinion of the 6th Harry Potter film, so don’t get your knickers in a twist. I’m sure the books are great. Secondly, I should mention that I have seen the first four HP movies, but not The Order of The Phoenix (No.5). So I’ll admit I’m not the most highly briefed person going into The Half-Blood Prince.

Let me set things up: A creepy, Voldemort induced storm appears form nowhere, out of which pops some death eaters which bring down a busy walk-bridge by flying next to it. An article in a newspaper Harry is reading in the next scene tells us that some people died in the incident. So I guess falling a short distance into water is fatal now. In a subway coffee shop, Harry hits on a waitress, who for some reason is all up ons. But as he's about to meet her at the end of her shift, Dumbledor c@#k-blocks Harry and magics him off in clear view of everyone, yet no-one sees it. (It's magic!) He takes Harry to see retired Hogwarts professor Horace Slughorn in the hopes that the prospect of teaching the one and only Harry Potter will lure him back to the school. It seems that old Slughorn is privy to some information that could help Dumbldor in his quest to ruin Voldemort's shit, once and for all. And it goes on from there. A bunch of what you'd expect from a Harry Potter film takes place. Including but not limited to: Ron makes out with a girl. Harry makes out with a girl. Hermine gets upset about something. They play some quidich and later, Harry and Draco cross wands.