Because a good TV special isn’t just for Christmas. Before deciding to read this please be advised that there are spoilers for Sherlock series 2 and Doctor Who series 5 and 6, so you have been warned. After completing the Christmas Movie Challenge a couple of weeks ago you’d think I would have had my [...]
Well that’s it, Christmas 2012 is over, the decorations have now come down, the tree is outside in the cold wondering what it did wrong and the over indulgence has taken its toll on bathroom scales everywhere. It was on this day 12 months ago that I watched Love Actually and decided I wanted that [...]
Well here it is, the penultimate entry in this year-long challenge and I find myself returning to a movie I watched and reviewed last year on my Boxing Day Binge. It’s one that never fails to remind me of Christmas and this year my Dad was channel surfing just as The First Great Train Robbery [...]
No Christmas break is complete for me without watching an epic from the past, this year’s choice being Zulu. As most will know the movie is about the defence of Rorke’s Drift, a small missionary outpost on the Natal border. A hundred or so British soldiers defended the outpost against an army of Impi Zulus [...]
Time now for a bit of tongue in cheek extra fast shooting so I’ll play The Quick and the Dead. Although it has a top dollar cast of Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe the storyline and characters are somewhat shallow. Still, what actor can resist playing a quick on the draw [...]
