2008 May archive at Block17 - for love, not money.
Movie Review: Vantage Point
by terminaljunkie on May 31st, 2008

Terrorists and bank jobs seem to be the dominant force in the thriller genre at the moment, this one though had a slightly different (refreshing?) approach. The tale is told from the perspectives of eight…..

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Movie Review: Penelope
by terminaljunkie on May 31st, 2008

When is a fairytale not a fairytale? When it’s a modern fairytale, or at least when it’s not a modern Tim Burton fairytale. I had fairly high hopes for this, after all it has a…..

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Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
by tomdoodle on May 25th, 2008

Indiana Jones is an iconic series of films that everyone knows. Everyone knows the boulder scene from Raiders, everyone knows how the whip cracks, and everyone knows that in Top Trumps, Fedora always beats Swastika……

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Movie Review: Careless
by terminaljunkie on May 24th, 2008

Low budget releases are invariably a hit and miss exercise, with the miss side having the more prevalent showing, however there have been some half decent releases lately, and this one sounded just up my…..

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Movie Review: The Oxford Murders
by terminaljunkie on May 24th, 2008

I’d been looking for something a little more interesting than the usual crime thriller, something a bit more intelligent along the lines of Morse or The Da Vinci Code shall we say, and when this…..

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As if the Eurovision song contest wasn’t enough, 2 weeks to go to Euro 2008
by Mark Anderson on May 24th, 2008

So! Commeth the European Championships where England couldn’t even muster qualification (useless gits), and strange how 2 English teams could reach the Champions League final?

So us English can actually have a summer off, providing…..

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Lord Peat & Pim the Fox: The 2007/2008 Review (Part 2)
by Iggy Pop Barker on May 19th, 2008

Contined from part 1

November

Frustration continues to mount during the six-pointer with struggling Spurs. The team are jeered off at half time after Darren Bent embarrasses Riggott to give the visitors the lead. Luke Young…..

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Movie Review: The Forbidden Kingdom
by terminaljunkie on May 17th, 2008

Team up the two most recognised protagonists of martial arts on the modern screen Jet Li and Jackie Chan, then throw in a legend of the Monkey King against his archrival the Jade Warlord, and…..

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Movie Review: Semi-Pro
by terminaljunkie on May 17th, 2008

Kent Alterman directs yet another Will Ferrell outing as his attention turns to Basketball as the target for his brand of crazy eccentricity.

Jackie Moon (Ferrell), a former funk megastar, is the owner/player/promoter for Flint…..

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Movie Review: Botched
by terminaljunkie on May 17th, 2008

This one is a low budget crime/thriller/comedy/horror film from Director Kit Ryan and is as convoluted as the genre mix suggests.

The premise is this: a diamond robbery goes badly wrong at the getaway stage,…..

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