There have been so many films that are based around the recording of events on a hand-held video camera, with most of them lately being paranormal type movies, so after seeing the trailers for Chronicle it looked like this could be something a little different. But is it? Or is it another one of those home-made movie looking films?

Chronicle – Blazing Minds Movie Review

So last night I braved the cold weather and ventured out to @ApolloCinemas Rhyl to see Chronicle  film which has had a lot of social networking promotion and hype via Twitter and Facebook, the story of three college kids who stumble upon a strange object underground that gives them powers beyond their wildest dreams, but soon, not everything goes as well as they would expect.
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Some time back I saw the trailer for The Grey and just couldn’t wait to get the chance to see the new movie starring Liam Neeson, so the other night I popped in to @ApolloCinemas Rhyl for my weekly dose of movie viewing to check out the movie.

So here we find Liam Neeson and a bunch of oil-rig workers surviving after a horrific plane crash, as if that wasn’t bad enough they now have to contend with not only the cold but also from the threat of a pack of wolves hell-bent on protecting their territory.
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So there I was the other night Tweeting and Facebooking as I do most of the time when one of my friends from @ApolloCinemas asked me if I fancied going and seeing A Monster In Paris, how could I resist, I do love a good animated movie and this did look quite charming from the trailers that I had seen.

A Monster In Paris – Apollo Cinemas Film Review

Based in Paris during the great flood on 1910, a monster, created by two bumbling friends while delivering to a scientists address, is let loose on Paris, but his love for music and his Jazz playing guitar brings him to nightclub singer, Lucille (Vanessa Paradis) and so the adventure begins with the mayor trying to capture the Monster, so Lucille, Raoul (Adam Goldberg) and Emille (Jay Harrington) try to save his life.

So here we have a touching film, that was originally released in French and then dubbed in to English for a wider audience and being that the film is CGI, you aren’t really looking for those awkward lip-synced moments, those all the writing in the film is in French, but that’s not a problem.

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Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)
Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Screenwriter: Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, Allison Burnett, J. Michael Straczynski
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy, Theo James, India Eisley, Charles Dance
Genre: Action, Horror
Certificate: 18

I have to start this review of Underworld Awakening by saying that I am a big fan of the Underworld movies, yes even the prequel, so when I found out ages ago that there would be an Underworld 4 and it would be in 3D I was over the moon.

Underworld Awakening – Vampire vs Lycan Now Human!

Humans have discovered the existence of the vampire and lycan clans and are systematically wiping them out off the face of the earth and now it’s Selene (Kate Beckinsale) that is taking on the battle to save both from complete annihilation.
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Wow! Two films in one day at @ApolloCinemas Rhyl yesterday, what can I say, I was in the movie mood so I checked out The Darkest Hour 3D!

The Darkest Hour 3D – Review

So the world is being invaded by aliens which can’t be seen and can only be detected by the electrical field that they give off.

Sounds a great idea for an invasion movie and has some great potential, but sadly The Darkest Hour falls a little short of being that amazing film that it could have been. Yes it has great special fx, but the story seems to lack something.

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Yes folks it’s movie review time again and I’ve not long got back from seeing Steven Spielberg’s latest movie based on Michael Morpurgo‘s War Horse, the story of a horse and his journey through the battlefields of world war one.

War Horse – Review – The Story Of A Horse And His Boy!

Bought at auction by Ted Narracott (Peter Mullen), Joey is taken back to their West Country farm in a hope of using the horse on the farm, but son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine) takes a shine to the horse and becomes attached to him, even to the point of lying about his age when Joey is about to be sold off to the army in 1914, so that he can stay with Joey.

What I really found a bit of a disappointment with the film is that the narrative that is told by Joey, the horse, in the book wasn’t there and for me this would have been a really nice touch to the film, instead the film takes on the mantel of realism and just tells the story through the directors eyes.

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Now there has been a lot of controversy over The Iron Lady lately as even David Cameron said it was “To Soon” for a film about Margaret Thatcher, but I beg to differ, so here are my thoughts of the film after seeing it last night at Apollo Cinemas Rhyl.

So here we have a “Biopic” of one of the most loved and hated powerful women in history, it’s the story of her rise in politics and the decisions that she made, where a nation loved her, then hated her and then blamed her for the state the country was in.

Controversial Or Not!

The controversy that surrounds The Iron Lady is the way that Margaret Thatcher is portrayed with Alzheimer’s and the way she talks to and sees her dead husband Dennis.

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