Written by Levte Lyton
Published on 18 Mar 2010
People talk about Knight Rider in hushed tones like no other 80s TV show can touch it, but those people are wrong.
The really cool kids didn’t care about Michael Knight and his fancy talking car, they were all about Jesse Mach and Street Hawk.
Jesse (played by the equally cool-named Rex Smith) is a police officer and former dirt-bike racer chosen to test a top-secret project — an all-terrain attack motorcycle capable of speeds of more than 300mph. How awesome is that?
Not only was Street Hawk way cooler than Knight Rider, but it had a better theme tune too – one written by Tangerine Dream.
Check out the clip below.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 14 Mar 2010
This is a movie of two halves or, more accurately, two separate stories rather uncomfortably sandwiched together and it soon becomes clear which of the two steals the show as best jam butty.
In the blue corner is eccentric American cook Julia Child (Meryl Streep on magnificent braying form), living in post-war France with her diplomat hubby Paul (Stanley Tucci) and intent on becoming a proper French-style chef. In the red corner is frustrated New York writer Julia (Amy Adams) who, with nothing better to do with her time, decides to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child’s cordon bleu cookery book and blog about it.
So, who ends up being the most entertaining? Julia Child of course. With her pearls, her booming voice, her sheer joie de vivre and her expert skill with a deboning knife, Streep makes Child a wonderfully warm woman; slightly bonkers but all the better for that. The picture director Nora Ephron paints of Julia’s relationship with her husband Paul is delightful, a marriage made in cake heaven with dollops and dollops of best French butter. Meanwhile, in comparison Julie and her husband (Chris Messina) come over as dull, colourless and without flavour.
Had Ephron been able to make a movie solely about Julia and Paul Child it would have been a marvellous thing to behold – a jelly in the shape of the Vatican perhaps, or an exploding Rum Baba – as it is, the scenes where Streep and Tucci are on screen are the ones to savour and mean half this movie is a fantastic feast.
Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 09 Mar 2010
For all those who thought this would be merely a big-budget remake of Shaun of The Dead, boy are you in for a welcome surprise.
Less horror, more giggling gore, one of the best things about Zombieland is its knowing cleverness and its totally irreverent attitude. How can you not love a movie where the two ‘hero’ characters happen to be an anal retentive with no mates, and a Twinkie-guzzling, trigger happy maniac who get well and truly shafted by a lippy teenager and her 12-year-old sister?
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 07 Mar 2010
While medium-priced Paris-based movie Micmacs offers great all-round entertainment, the much bigger budgeted From Paris With Love proves bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.
In fact, in this case it basically shows how you can make a real mess for lots of money.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 07 Mar 2010
French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet doesn’t make run of the mill movies.
From Delicatessen, through Amelie, to A Very Long Engagement, his films are full of weird coincidences, random happenings, eccentric characters and odd Heath Robinson-esque contraptions. Micmacs carries on in the same vein and in its charmingly weird way becomes enthralling – even if you’re a non-believer in the cult of Jeunet at the start, it will win you over by its thoroughly satisfying end.
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People talk about Knight Rider in hushed tones like no other 80s TV show can touch it, but those people are wrong.
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