"Simply put, the first Die Hard is the archetypal action movie. It is a film that defines a genre. Everything about it was perfect; the iconic hero John McClane, the villain, the location and setting, the well-developed supporting characters, the action sequences and the plot. The two instalments that followed were solid in a time in which sequels were not as loosely banded around as they are today but they could never emulate the level of simple brilliance of the first. Since then, an action genre has developed in which CGI sequences are not just commonplace but dominant and the Die Hard format is constantly replicated again and again..."

"In 2004, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made Team America: World Police, a satirical take on the notion that it is America’s job to sort out the world’s problems, a notion put forward by many Hollywood films. Whether it was intended to or not, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is one of those films.

When the London Eye is collapsing into the Thames, it is the American military alongside the Fantastic Four as opposed to the UK military. The case is the same when the four travel to Germany and it is only in Japan that they are met by emergency services of the country they are actually in (and they arrive once the crisis is over)..."

"One would like to describe the “Little Sparrow” as a diamond amongst the rough; a child of the streets who fought her way to the top through plucky determinism and natural talent. However, Edith Piaf was as rough as they come and the glare of the untarnished diamond, at times, was faint. As she charmed the French bourgeoisie in Parisian nightclubs, Piaf’s personal life of hedonism was fuelled by a need to drown out the past and the present, leading to life of debauchery, absinthe and cigarettes; and this was before the golden morphine years..."

       Munich                                Kiss Kiss Bang Bang                 Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story      

       Final Destination 3            Four Brothers        Alien Autopsy     The Illusionist                      Elizabethtown   

       Walk The Line                    Good Night, and Good Luck   Provoked                      The Da Vinci Code              

     Little Miss Sunshine    Cars    Breaking & Entering      The Guardian     Dreamgirls

      The Prestige        Bobby       Spiderman 3      Black Snake Moan    300   Sunshine 

      Wedding Daze