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The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (Blu-ray Review)

April 22, 2015 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen, Ken Stott, Orlando Bloom
Director: Peter Jackson
Running Time: 144 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: April 20th 2015 (UK)

The Battle Of The Five Armies certainly doesn’t want to give you time to settle in. Indeed it appears that in Peter Jackson’s mind he wasn’t making three movies, he was creating one enormously long one, as the final part of the trilogy jumps straight in without even the vaguest hint of a recap or a desire to allow the audience to catch their breath.

Nope, the dragon Smaug is on his way to attack Laketown and only Luke Evan’s Bard the Bowman can stop them. That part of the plot is wrapped up pretty quickly, leaving two full hours for the battle of the title and its build-up. Thorin (Richard Armitage) has holed himself up in his ancestral home in the Misty Mountain, but like his forefathers, having control of the vast dwarvish treasure immediately sends him nuts, with the gold causing him to betray his friends and isolate himself from all those around him. [Read more…]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Cinema Review)

December 10, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans
Director: Peter Jackson
Running Time: 144 mins
Certificate: 12A
Release Date: December 12th 2014 (UK)

So here we are at the end of Bilbo’s quest, and a journey that Peter Jackson and co started on many years ago to bring Middle Earth to the big screen. I am a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2004) and they are some of my all-time favourite films.

It’s been more than a decade since I went to the cinema to see The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and at the time I went in with little expectation, just knowing that it was a fantasy film based on a beloved book that had gained legions of fans worldwide. I was captivated by a fully realised world and became attached to the characters and their quest. And then suddenly it ended and I couldn’t believe I had to wait a year for more! [Read more…]

Boys On Film 11: We Are Animals (DVD)

March 9, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Daniel Boys, Morten Kirkskov, Simon Munk, Martin L. Washington Jr., Spencer Broschard
Director: Various
Running Time: 144 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 10th 2014

The popular Boys On Film collection returns with another selection of gay-themed short film, this time offering a pleasingly eclectic mix ranging across a number of genres and coming from various different countries. Here’s what we thought…

And you can see what we think of other Boys On Film releases here. [Read more…]

The Master (Blu-ray)

March 7, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Running Time: 144 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 11th 2013

The Master almost needs two completely separate reviews, as it’s an audience divider if ever there was one. Some people with undoubtedly find Paul Thomas Anderson’s film tedious, repetitive, pointless, confusing and boring. However others will find it absorbing and endlessly thought-provoking, although even they will have difficulty coming to any firm conclusions about what the movie is ‘about’.

To be honest, while I liked the movie an awful lot, I’m still not 100% convinced it isn’t cinematic masturbation, but if it is, it’s masturbation turned into an art form – and possibly cinematic masturbation about cinematic masturbation. [Read more…]

Men For Sale (DVD)

October 29, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Starring: n/a
Director: Jean Rodrigue
Running Time: 144 mins
Certificate: E

If you were wondering whether the lives of crack-addicted rent boys were a barrel of laughs, then Men For Sale is here to say that they aren’t. Well, that doesn’t exactly come as a big surprise, but does this documentary have anything new to say about the subject? [Read more…]