It looks like we might have made it, looks like we’ve made it to the end. End Of Watch, that is, the gritty cop thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by David Ayer, who makes gritty cop thrillers for breakfast. But is it going to be the best movie ever with ‘End’ in its title? Is that a question that has been on your lips for ages? Aw, who cares, here’s a list… Continue reading
I know what you’re thinking. And the answer is yes: it really is annoying having to type out all that stuff when merely writing the title of the new Twilight movie. But we don’t mind. Because not so secretly here at Ross v Ross, we quite like the Twilight movies. Continue reading
Only one man likes Bond films. His name is Alan Partridge. He doesn’t even exist. Beware of those who proclaim, ‘Oh, I bloody love James Bond movies. Bloody Bond, I bloody love ‘im’. They are liars. No one likes Bond films ***. They are films for people who don’t like films. Pre-packaged and flat-packed. Bond isn’t British. He’s Swedish. He is the Ikea of cinema. Continue reading
This week sees former Hollywood heartthrob Ben Affleck get his facial hair groove on by getting all bearded up for his new movie, Argo. With this in mind, what are some of the best beards to grace the big screen? Continue reading
Halloween used to be about setting off bangers and throwing eggs at people’s windows. But now it’s gone all commercial. Somewhere along the way, the true meaning of Halloween (humiliating someone by covering them in egg yolk) has been lost. Continue reading
James Bond… DER-DER-DER!! He’s the man, the man with the terrible movie titles! Skyfall. It doesn’t really mean anything does it? But then what does Tomorrow Never Dies mean? Or The Living Daylights? Or, of course, Quantum Of Solace? What the smeg is a Moonraker? Skyfall, while obviously meaningless, is at least a catchy enough moniker and looks good on a poster. It also lets us come up with a completely tenuous list of movie clips based on the words ‘sky’ and ‘fall’. Yeah, you get the picture. Continue reading
This week sees the release of Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s latest jaunt into haunting animation. What better time then to rattle through the most memorable Franks in cinema history. Continue reading
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What were your movie great expectations?
Posted in COMMENT with tags Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Helena Bonham Carter, Mike Newell, Movies, Ralph Fiennes on November 26, 2012 by Ross McGGreat Expectations is out this week. There have been precisely 736 film adaptations of Great Expectations, so that Dickens guy must be raking it in on the royalties front. I don’t mind the prospect of this latest version, and not because it has Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, who seem to be in bloody everything these days.
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