A fine finale, s’no word of a lie…
Picturenose would take the opportunity to dedicate this review to Hélène Noël, who passed away on 16 June, 2008.
It took me completely unawares, did Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha’s Ice Age (2002), not unlike falling in love with Hélène, who first showed me the film.
[photopress:star_trek.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Boldly going…again
Reboots – they’re all at it. Following the very successful relaunch of the James Bond franchise with Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008), and some 43 years after Captain James T. Kirk first boarded the USS Enterprise, he’s back!
You’ll probably be relieved to hear that William Shatner has [...]
Whodunnit? More like ‘who didn’t?’
Talk about setting yourself up with a film title. This was a film released in late 2006 just begging for bad reviews on account of the easy job supplied by the title. This is a real pity, because I can’t believe the reviewers were watching the same film I saw. First [...]
A policeman’s lot is quite a gruesome one
Another slab of in-your-face comic genius from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and many of the usual suspects from Spaced.
Copper-bottomed comedy
Messrs Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are fast becoming the benchmark for what it means to be funny – comic actor and writer Pegg first paired up with writer/director Wright for the sensational Spaced sit-com, and they have subsequently worked together on the marvellous ‘not with a bang but a belly-laugh’ zombie pastiche, [...]