Well this movie was a giant hit when it was released at the cinema (many moons ago), so I guess most people would have heard of ?Dangerous Minds?, or at least the fabulous sound track that accompanied it. Set in a school in inner city USA, there are none of the suburban niceties that exist […]

This is one of the funniest movies ever made and with three of Hollywood?s top comedians playing the lead roles, it was always bound to be a success. Set in a small village in Mexico - The Three Amigo?s (played by Steve Martin Chevy Chase and Martin Short) answer a telegram requesting them to come […]

Percy Talbott (played by Allison Elliot) has just finished a five-year jail term for manslaughter. With nowhere to go she asks her warden to find her somewhere where she can make a fresh start. Percy takes a bus to the town of Gilead, a sleepy little town that is slowly dying after the timber mill […]

This is a direct ?Pitch Black? follow-on film, brief at only 33? minutes, but interesting because it is animated - in Japanese anime style. It picks up where ?Pitch Black? leaves off, focusing on the survivors. If you?ve not yet watched ?Pitch Black? then I warn you that reading on will spoil the ending, so […]

Directed by John Huston;
Based on the renowned novel of the same name by Herman Melville, Moby Dick is a classic seafaring adventure story with a strong sub-plot concerning on one man?s obsession with a rogue whale and his own demons. Presumedly this is a re-release of one of a raft of earlier released […]

This was not a B-grade flick. It had the special effects and the right music to set the scene. It begins with a young boy in a corn field putting up some scarecrows, his dad is off in the distance harassing him about securing them properly while his older brother is under the old ute […]

This was not a B-grade flick. It had the special effects and the right music to set the scene. It begins with a young boy in a corn field putting up some scarecrows, his dad is off in the distance harassing him about securing them properly while his older brother is under the old ute […]

The movie opens with the death of a witness who was supposed to testify against the Mafia. In the violent shoot em up FBI Chief Harry Shannon?s son is one of the many killed and Harry swears revenge against the Patrovita family who organised the murders. He turns to ex-FBI agent Mark Kaminsky, played by […]

Diana, June and Venus are Mermaids. June has chosen to live on land and is a romantic; she believes she will find her soul mate on land. Venus has a big problem, a mortal has captured her pearl tiara and she is now enslaved by him until she can get it back. And Diana is […]

This is written by Rebecca Miller and is taken from a collection of short stories she was writing for a book. The story is a trilogy of the lives of three women, Paula, Delia and Gretta, who have all reached a moment of truth in their lives and must now make choices that will affect […]