Hellboy is one, if not my favorite comic book to movie adaptation. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and starring Ron Perlman as the giant, very red and other worldly Hellboy. with Selma Blair as Liz Sherman, Hellboy's love interest. If you haven’t read the comics, or have no idea of the story, here is a quick catch up for you
Wes Craven is a horror maestro, despite my reservations about some of his earlier movies. With the mega successful Freddy Krueger series and the Scream franchise under his belt, Craven goes for the more mature audience with this tense thriller, starring Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams
Nightwatch was and still is a good looking movie, with stylish lighting, design and special effects. Hailing from Russia, Nightwatch is a blockbuster mythology/vampire movie that is an adapted from the first in a trilogy of famous books
The third movie in the Dirty Harry series, the Dead Pool follows no nonsense cop Harry Callaghan played by Clint Eastwood. This is of course one of Eastwood’s most well known characters alongside his other trilogy crossing character the man with no name in Leone's Fistful of dollars movies
Kung Fu Hustle starts off as it means to go on in a grand, violent, quite brooding and often comical fashion, a movie mash up that really excels in a lot of areas. Kung fu Hustle is a movie directed by and Starring Stephen Chow, and has so many good things about it, it’s hard to cover them all
Elf is a Christmas movie, about an elf, or rather a human who thinks he's an elf, raised in the North Pole where Santa lives. Will Ferrell is the title character Buddy the elf, who travels to the United States to meet his real life father Walter Hobbs played by James Caan
Mystery Men pokes fun at the superhero genre as we follow the exploits of a group of wannabe super heroes who just aren’t very good at being superheroes. Constantly overshadowed by Captain Amazing who is the city’s well know crime fighter
Timeline was a movie that has one of the worst trailers I have ever seen in the history of cinema, I remember when I saw it I instantly though that this is a movie I should avoid at all costs. So it’s a few years down the line and while at the DVD rental store I was looking for a movie to go into a 3 DVD for one type of rental deal and I saw this
In the future the Earth is at war with the Alien bugs from Klendathu, and soldiers from the Earth’s military need to stop them. We follow the story of Johnny Rico who is just a student that joins the military along with the girl he’s dating to earn his full citizenship
Pitch Black turned up out of the blue, with one of the best trailers I've seen to date. It was minimal, visually stark and left you wanting more and intrigued to know what happened to the alcohol fuelled flame blowing man as he was surrounded in the darkness.
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