Yes, yes… I know what you’re thinking, ‘Didn’t you do this list last week?’ Well, almost. It was chess scenes last week, but some of our literally dozens of readers took a quick glance at the title and thought it said ‘cheese’ instead. A cheesy movie scene list was hence demanded. So here it is. Continue reading
Chess. It’s really boring, right? Wrong. Try telling that to Rutger Hauer, Jeff Goldblum, Humphrey Bogart and Ted bleedin’ Danson. Chess is flipping ace. Here’s why. Continue reading
It’s that time of year again… where I run down the good, the bad and the very bad of the movies I watched over Christmas. This is something of an RvR tradition – you can see my Christmas 2009 list HERE and my Christmas 2010 list HERE. If you want to run through some really odd choices you can go for Ross McD’s 2009 list HERE. Somehow we both missed 2011’s movies. Must have eaten too much turkey. Anyway, here are the films I caught over the festive period in the last week or two. As always, some I watched in their entirety, some I watched large chunks of and some I caught just a tiny snippet. Come on, I had things to do. Like walk from the sofa to the kitchen and back to grab more chocolates. These movies are in the order I watched them, not rearranged by quality. Let us know what movies you watched over Christmas in the comments section and tell us what you think of my choices. Although in the case of Happy Feet, I didn’t have a choice… Continue reading
Tom Cruise is back. And this time he’s Jack Reacher. Yeah, you know, that really tall guy who kicks ass? Uh… yeah. Well, size isn’t everything. We are big fans of The Cruiser at Ross v Ross (well, one of us two Rosses is), so we’ll happily watch him in anything. We’re looking forward to his upcoming sci-fi outing, Oblivion, too, in which he plays another Jack, a good three decades after playing a Jack in Ridley Scott’s Timotei advert cum epic fantasy, Legend. But what is it about characters called Jack? And who are the best Jacks in the movies? Let’s find out… Continue reading
Ang Lee’s adaptation of Life of Pi, the book by Yann Martel that was long thought unfilmable, looks pretty sweet, and we at Ross v Ross are big fans of the director’s work (I like Sense & Sensibility, Ross McD likes that bit where they fly through the trees in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). But we can’t help feeling that Lee should have cast some more well-knowns in the all-important roles of the animals, of which there is a tiger, a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a whale. Here is our dream cast for Life of Pi. Continue reading
So what is The Hobbit all about? Let hobbit lookalike Ross McD take you on a journey… Continue reading
You know that moment you get – if you’re lucky – while watching a movie when you suddenly realise, ‘I’m flipping into this!’? Well, in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, it happened to me when the wolf thingys were chasing the old man on the sled being pulled by bunnies. For all the hushed tones in which adaptations of JRR Tolkien’s famous works are spoken of, it’s easy to forget sometimes that they are fun. A load of bunkum maybe, but fun. Here’s five reasons why we thoroughly enjoyed Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth. Continue reading
We love a bit of Colin Farrell. One of us two Rosses even shared a plane with him once. But that’s a story for another day. A day when you want to hear a really boring story about meeting Colin Farrell at the luggage carousel in an airport. For now, in honour of his new movie, Seven Psychopaths, we look back at some of the previous loose cannons he’s played down the years. Warning: chances are this article contains a lot of clips of an Irishman swearing. For once, it’s not Ross McD. Continue reading
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