What were your movie great expectations?

Posted in COMMENT with tags , , , , , on November 26, 2012 by Ross McG

Great 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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Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2: Top Five complicated love triangles

Posted in TOP FIVES with tags , , , , , , , , on November 20, 2012 by Ross McD

If your two prom date options were that tall skinny pale anti-social kid who will take the first opportunity he gets to give you a hickey, and the angry violent hairy kid who just wants to hump your leg, you’d probably just stay at home. Traditionally in Hollywood, if a woman had a vampire and a werewolf pawing over her, she’d be screaming, and not with delight. Yet pretty much every girl between the ages of 5 and 105 would give anything to be the other point on the Edward/Jacob love triangle. Here’s a few more to get your teeth into… Continue reading →

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Disney Star Wars: Episodes VII, VIII and IX

Posted in COMMENT, NEWS with tags , , , , , , , , on November 20, 2012 by Ross McD

***WARNING! HERE BE SPOILERS!***

Yes, yes, we know E online said the new Star Wars movies would have ‘completely new’ storylines and not be based on anything already written. But you know what? Christopher Nolan said he’d die before he’d cast Robin in a Batman Film. According to the credits if Airplane 2, we were supposed to get an Airplane 3. Heck, even George Lucas said he was making a farm-set porno called Blue Harvest. Filmmakers are liars, you see. Don’t forget it’s their job description to fool audiences! There is a massive expanded Star Wars universe catered for via some excellently written novels, but none come close to the Thrawn Trilogy, written by Timothy Zahn and generally regarded by fanboys to be the canon’s episode VII, VIII and IX – Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command.
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Top Five… Movies with ‘End’ in the title

Posted in TOP FIVES with tags , , on November 19, 2012 by Ross McG

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 →

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Top Six… Breaking dawn scenes to tie in with the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Or something

Posted in TOP FIVES with tags , , , , on November 12, 2012 by Ross McG

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 →

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Top Seven… Reasons Why Skyfall Really Isn’t Very Good At All

Posted in TOP FIVES with tags , , , on November 7, 2012 by Ross McG

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 →

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Top Eight… Movie Beards

Posted in TOP FIVES with tags , , , , , , , , on November 5, 2012 by Ross McG

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 →

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The Top Five Unkillable Screen Baddies

Posted in TOP FIVES with tags , on October 31, 2012 by Ross McD

Did you ever notice that baddies in action films can be killed with a haphazard bullet casually fired in their general direction, but baddies in horror films can survive anything short of having a planet dropped on their head? Why don’t evil megalomaniacs hire their henchmen from horror genres? They’d save a huge amount in wages, not to mention the flowers they have to continuously send to henchwidows. Here’s five of the unkillablest… Continue reading →

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