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We've come to review films and chew bubble gum but we're out of bubble gum...

About Me

We're Dan and corin and we're doing this page to bring our expert opinion on the films that matter to you.

My Interests

Far too many to mention but for the sake of this, watching and reviewing films so you don't have to

Music:

Good soundtracks like Dirty Dancing and Footloose please

Movies:

Every single last one of them

Television:

Only the really good stuff

Books:

Novelizations by Alan Dean Foster are the best...

My Blog

Dan’s sort of round-up

During summer I have become like a huge, lethargic walrus; occassionally moaning and with the odd, stray remnant of facial hair. One result of this has been that a visit to the cinema has become a mig...
Posted by skip to the end on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:21:00 PST

corins quick overview

These should of got seperate reviews but I've been lazy/busy/looking out the window too much... Stranger Than Fiction Following a little too closely in the wake of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Min...
Posted by skip to the end on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:08:00 PST

corin's Hostel 2 review

Hostel 2 is the sequel to Eli Roth's first film about the Elite Hunting organisation which kidnapped backpackers who were then used as the subjects of torture and eventual death at the hands of busine...
Posted by skip to the end on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:59:00 PST

corin's Spiderman 3 review

There's a worrying trend of late in action films, to inject some perceived level of depth to characters writers/directors/whoever have decided that everyone's going to start crying.  Heroes or vi...
Posted by skip to the end on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

Dan's review of This is England

It's only a few weeks since I said The Lives of Others was the best film, so far, of 2007. Well, the 'so far' has already come to an end. I had high hopes for This is England. Shane Meadows' last film...
Posted by skip to the end on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:52:00 PST

corin's review of Grindhouse

In what'll probably end up as the biggest box office flop of the last couple of years, Robert Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's love letter to the cheap and nasty exploitation films of the 70's and ...
Posted by skip to the end on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:09:00 PST

corin's quick (or not) overview

Ghost Rider This is the latest comic book adaptation to come out from the seemingly endless line of the last few years, it's Mark Steven Johnson's latest attempt after being involved with the Daredevi...
Posted by skip to the end on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:49:00 PST

Dan's review of The Lives of Others

A brilliant film, The Lives of Others is all the more remarkable as it is writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature-length debut. The wonderful discipline and fluidity that both his w...
Posted by skip to the end on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:55:00 PST

corin's ps to the 300 review

Dan beat me to the punch with his review, I agree with his points on the film, it was ok but not the great experience I was looking forward to.  I probably shouldn't be that surprised though seei...
Posted by skip to the end on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:15:00 PST

Dan's review of 300

Zack Snyder's last film, a remake of Dawn of the Dead, surprised a lot of people because it was actually very good. Expectations around his follow-up, an adaptation of Frank Miller's brilliant 300 com...
Posted by skip to the end on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:44:00 PST