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Happy Christmas To Everyone On Livejournal!
I hope all my friends and readers on livejournal have a wonderful time this Christmas!
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Peter Jackson's Hobbit Sequel Is Still More Fun Than Any Of The Lord Of The...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)I was rather happier with the first Hobbit movie than everyone else, to say the least. I've read all the Lord of the Rings books and I'd generally been pretty...
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A Superb Cast In "Blood", Riz Ahmed Shines As A "Reluctant Fundamentalist",...
Blood (2012)In a police station seemingly plagued by nepotism, Brian Cox plays the old retired head of a local police station, while Stephen Graham and Paul Bettany play the two brothers who are now...
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Horror Movies! Vampires And Found-Footage
Byzantium (2012)Recently a lot of people have been feeling a bit vampired-out. It seems like we've seen practically every single possible interpretation of the vampire mythos imagineable. Still one of...
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Last Minute Reviews From 2013: Hummingbird, Jack the Giant Slayer, Bling...
Hummingbird (2013)Jason Statham has made a name for himself by taking on mostly action movies. His first big central movie role was in "Snatch" where he played the character of Turkish. In the movie...
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Movie Guide: January 2014 - March 2014
Happy New Year everyone!Here is my movie guide for the first three months in 2014. It looks like the beginning of the year is going to be crammed full of exciting films. What films are you looking...
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Movie Guide: April 2014 - June 2014
The movie guide continues! Click here for my recommendations for movies being released in January, February and March (based on UK release dates).For my recommendations for movies released in April,...
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Movie Guide: July 2014 - December 2014
The last two movie guide entries tackled the action-packed first half of 2014. Now this entry deals with my choices of movies in the latter half of the year which already have a UK release scheduled...
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Animated Movies - "Monsters University" Is Surprising and "Paprika" Is Beautiful
Monsters University (2013)With the extremely poor critical reception of "Cars 2" (which I haven't seen) and the ho-hum response from general viewers to "Brave" (which I thought was underrated), Pixar's...
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Movie Guide: Movies Without A UK Release Date
Naturally I hope that all of these films will have a UK release date (at least for a DVD release) before the end of the year. But right now in January 2014 there appears to be no release date for the...
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Upcoming Movies At A Glance: All My Top Movie Picks For 2014
January - February(Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - 03/01/14)Inside Llewyn Davis -Â 24/01/14(12 Years a Slave - 10/01/14)(The Invisible Woman - 07/02/14)Robocop -Â 07/02/14Her -Â 14/02/14The Lego Movie -...
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Movies about horror directors James Whale and Friedrich Murnau
"Gods and Monsters" and "Shadow of the Vampire" are both tributes to old horror directors. The first stars Ian McKellan as James Whale, the director of the classic Universal Frankenstein movies. The...
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"Warrior King" is spectacular action from the Ong Bak director. "Dirty Rotten...
Warrior King (aka "The Protector") (2005)The director of Ong Bak and Chocolate produces yet another wonderful action movie with fantastically inventive fight scenes, awe-inspiring choreography and a...
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Awesome Song: "Radioactive Dreams" by Sue Saad
Recently I've been listening to a podcast called "Radiodrome" and they occasionally finish up with an obscure song. They played this song at the end of podcast number 156 and my instant reaction was to...
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Zombie Movies! "World War Z", "Dead Heat" and "Citadel". Actually Quite An...
The theme for this post is zombie movies. First of all we have the global zombie apocalypse movie "World War Z", supposedly intended to have a connection to the popular novel, but more of a zombie...
View ArticleAwesome Song: "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)" by Tom Waits
This is an old favourite of mine. A little more mellow than the songs I've been posting over the past year. Also quite funny. Listen carefully to the lyrics.(video link)
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Welcome To Fatpie42's Blog!
Best Reviewed Movies In 2014:More reviews coming soon....Next anticipated movie (January 2014): Inside Llewyn DavisClick here for links to all movie reviews written so far.Movie Guide 2014Click here...
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Blooming Ghost Stories! "The Changeling" and "Sinister"
Why do I keep doing this to myself, eh? Ghost stories. I often have a real problem with them. But then again, every now and again there'll be a big surprise like the American version of "The Grudge" or...
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Two Very Musical Movies: "Frozen" and "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Frozen (2013)I had high hopes when I heard this was made by the creators of Tangled. Then I had low expectations when I saw the trailer. Then I was suddenly told it was marvellous by everyone. So the...
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ABCs is a Complete Mixed Bag In Terms of Quality - But There Are Admittedly A...
The ABC's of Death (2012)This isn't really one movie. As much as I disliked the wraparound sections of the V/H/S movies, I have to at least give them credit for tying their various short films into one...
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