So I bit the bullet and went to see Nicolas Cage reprise his role in the sequel to Ghost Rider, for those who haven’t seen the first Ghost Rider let me fill you in on the back story of Ghost Rider.

Five years ago Nicolas Cage brought Marvel Comics Johnny Blaze to the big screen the stunt bike rider that made a pact with the devil (Peter Fonda) so that he could save his father’s life, but any deal made with the Devil is going to go bad!

And so the Ghost Rider was born and we had a rather enjoyable, if not daft, movie from the Marvel stables, now five years on we now have the sequel Spirit Of Vengeance.

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D – Blazing Minds Movie Review

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Ladies and Gentleman, Daniel Radcliffe has grown up, gone have the wizards, magic wands and all that silliness of the Harry Potter days, Daniel Radcliffe is now on his way of putting Potter behind him!

Bold words to start a blog post with I know, but after seeing The Woman In Black at @ApolloCinemas Rhyl last night my faith in the, now grown up, child star is on its way to showing that he’s not just Harry Potter he has more to show us in his career.

The Woman In Black – Blazing Minds Film Review

So here we find Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) as a young widowed lawyer, who takes on the job of trying to sell what seems to be a unsellable house, smack bang on an island that seems to have a rather horrific history and so the journey of shocks and more shocks start.

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D has now been released to a world that has probably seen the film that many times they know it off by heart.. I remember that day when the original Star Wars was released in 1977, waiting in a queue for a film that was going to be something different and a film that would change Sci-Fi movies forever, followed by two sequels and three prequels, Star Wars still brings fans together for films that stand the test of time.

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Now Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D has been released in a converted 3D format, ok we know that The Phantom Menace isn’t the best in the Star Wars saga, but I suppose George Lucas decided that this time around he would release the films in episode order, rather than before in the original releases of episodes 4, 5 and 6 then 1,2 and 3.

Personally for me I would have liked A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and then Return Of The Jedi released first, but that could be something to do with that’s how I saw them first time around and yes I did see them in their original non-updated releases, which I do prefer!

So anyway, let’s get on to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D, as I said earlier this is probably the Star Wars film that gets a lot of criticism from film goers worldwide, on its original release the critics didn’t like it and poor Jar-Jar Binks came in with so much flak it was hard to believe that a character in a film could be so hated!

But besides that, we have to tip our imaginary hats to George Lucas for bringing the origin of the Star Wars saga to life, though it can be a little daft in places and hugely hated by the professional film reviewers (but hey what do they know anyway!).
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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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