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 [...]
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 [...]
On our Christmas Podcast Special my esteemed geek in arms Jim made a very good point about the Christmas Movie Challenge, how could any self-respecting film fan watch 52 festive films and not watch It’s A Wonderful Life. A valid point, there are times over the course of this year I have almost watched it, [...]
The season of indulgence is here again when we buy too many presents that the recipients don’t need, and eat and drink nonstop like wild animals preparing to hibernate for the winter. Once the rituals are out-of-the-way and all the electronic toys run out of batteries we reach my favourite part, which is inactivity. While [...]
Every year the struggle to find the right gift gets that little bit more difficult, if like me you end up buying socks galore for everybody in your life you may want to check out this handy little app. Universal Pictures have produced an exceptionally useful Gift Guide app for their official Facebook page, to [...]
