“The shooting, fire play and blood letting is intermittently graphic, kind-of-like straight down your eye, yet spiritually operatic when it’s all done to save life.” DVD Review By Pete ©2011 **½ Out of 4 Stars The Expendables lives up to its namesake. Sylvester Stallone (Rambo) brings together hard men action staple hires from today’s Jason […]
Pete’s Preview
January 8, 2011 by
Season of the Witch (2011) I’m on the side of the knights in Season of the Witch, a medieval, black plague fantasy cum horror. The accused is in the right corner – a girly witch. In the left corner are the knights from the Crusades. All kind of dark. But is it a case of […]
Pete’s Quick Preview
January 3, 2011 by
A quick look at what’s coming up in the next few weeks from our resident film guru Peter Veugelaers. Jan/Feb 2011 There a few carry over films from the previous year being released in more theatres, including The Company Men, Frankie and Alice (starring Halle Berry) and Country Strong (starring Gwyneth Paltrow), which were at […]
Pete’s Preview
December 25, 2010 by
Pete’s Preview by Peter Veugelaers © 2010 Jonathan Swift’s classic satire about the follies and sins of human kind is given the contemporary treatment. Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726, was made into animation in 1939 and a live action/animation version in 1977, which was a British-Belgian co-production. The latest is 3-D which ups the […]
Pete’s Preview
December 18, 2010 by
by Peter Veugelaers © 2010 How Do You Know has a good cast for a comedy and a good, and experienced Oscar-winning writer/director. In the hands of James L. Brooks it could be getting close to the heights of As Good As It Gets, which Brooks wrote and directed and was released in 1997. The […]
Shrek Forever After DVD Review
December 11, 2010 by
DVD review by Peter Veugelaers © 2010 ** Out of **** Shrek’s transported to a parallel universe – and let’s hope he stays there. The fourth Shrek installment goes towards proving that sequels do get worse for ware with a few exceptions (Star Wars anyone, if you include that unfortunate prequel trilogy, which proved the […]
Toy Story 3 DVD Review
December 4, 2010 by
Nov 2, 2010. DVD release of Toy Story 3 reviewed by Peter Veugelaers ***** Toy Story 3 is the leading edge in animation this year and even stands proud above the feature film releases of 2010 for two reasons: it takes seemingly insignificant material and breathes through it inventive, imaginative life – it is reminiscent […]