It’s hard to believe that ‘Hook’ the film based on Sir Barrie’s amazing Peter Pan story is over twenty years old now. I found it on beloved LoveFilm one Sunday night when I was at a loose end and in need of distraction… And what a movie to provide it! […]

‘R.I.P.D’ is a bit like a cross between ‘Ghost Busters’ and ‘Men in Black’. It is one of the most uniquely interesting films of the year. Detectives Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds) and Bobby Hayes (Kevin Bacon) stole a chest full of gold during a raid but Walker begins to regret […]

There aren’t many films where the blooper-reel is funnier than the final product. ‘We’re the Millers’ directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, of ‘Dodgeball’ fame, is a swing and a miss comedy that tries to blend all the raunchiness of ‘The Hangover’ with traditional family sitcom style comedy. Low level marijuana […]

Summary  As you may have noted, the spelling of Vampyre is odd and that is because it is one of those “old horror books” much alike the works of H.P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. I am not an English Literature graduate, so forgive my crude labelling. Having said that, […]

Despite being strapped for cash and out of employment there are still jobs in today’s market that youths will tend to avoid perusing. With aspirations of directing people to their seats in a peaceful theatre or serving skinny lattes in a swanky London coffee house, offering a king of the […]

If you look at the charts today you’ll see that a significant amount of the top tunes have, in some way, been remixed by an artist other than the original. Take, for example, Lana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’. Undoubtedly this is a great song and worthy of topping the charts […]

In a comic book film heavy summer, ‘Kick Ass 2’ is the next to have a go. It lacks all the seriousness of ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘The Wolverine’ but a comic book film with a strong focus on comedy seems a refreshing idea. The first Kick Ass movie finished […]

The Saint was a very popular 1960s television show which featured one of the most sought after cars of its time – the Volvo P1800. The car itself was the star of the show and had its own fan-base worldwide. It might surprise you then to find out that the […]