The Girl Next Door

Not a bad teen comedy thing about a dude who falls for the girl next door only to discover that she's an adult movie star. It's actually better than it sounds... honest.

DVD R2
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***

Godzilla's Revenge

This is I believe 10th in the Godzilla series, and most would argue a lowpoint... although Ben & Jake loved it. The plot follows a little boy who is bullied and wishes he was on monster island. He visits the place in his dream and becomes friends with Godzilla's Son who inspires him to be brave. The saving grace is that there's some ace battles where Godzilla does his thing with various monsters... the dubbing is ace - especially Godzilla's lad.

DVD R1
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***

Ocean's Twelve

The sequel to Ocean's Eleven (which itself was a remake) comes with a stunning cast and crew, loads of gloss and some cool editing and production. It lacks however much of the charm of the earlier one.

I found this a little annoying at times, there's some good stuff in here but it doesn't hold together well, is a little show-offy and basically I don't really get why 11 criminals would want to pay back the loot from the previous job with interest anyway? I'm a heist movie fan, but not this one.

UGC Cinema
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**

Assault on Precinct 13

Remake time here - this one is an update/reworking of the John Carpenter classic from 1976. I like the original so didn't hold out much hope here. The plot has been developed more and wasn't too bad, in fact it was tense in places - all in all it was good.

The last scene which involves running around in a forest was entertaining, especially because the forest wasn't that visible in either of the aerial shots earlier in the movie, yet a run out of the door and a right turn leads straight into it when needed...

UGC Cinemas
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***

Piranha

Joe Dante's 1978 classic killer fish movie.
Has a secret military base that have been breeding mutant piranha fish that are unwittingly let loose into the river network. Of course there are more people swimming and playing in the river that day than any other. I love these movies...

DVD R2
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***

Las Vegas

Caught up with a couple of episodes of Las Vegas.
Episodes 2.2 and 2.3. Cool.

Sky
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****

Driller Killer

Seemed appropiate after the previous movie.
Abel Ferrara's movie about a guy who slips into madness due to various pressures and a punk band that rehearse next door. This was before cordless drills yet he seems to do his stuff around the place without having to plug in at all... not noticed that before!

DVD R2
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*

Along Came Polly

Another Ben Stiller movie - this is an entertaining romcom with Stiller playing the usual loser character and Jennifer Aniston doing her usual thing. For some unknown reason it also featured a ferret. In fact the only interesting extra on the DVD is a programme about the ferret making it to the premiere. really.

DVD R2
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***

24

Double bill which starts off Day Four for Jack Bauer. He was only in CTU for 10mins before he sneaked into a holding room and shot some dude in the leg... maybe he needs a day off.

Sky
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***

Meet the Fockers

Big budget follow up to Meet the Parents, which didn't really end in a I-need-a-sequal kind of way. It's a lot of jokes based on the surname as you'd expect, although the material is thin Hoffman and co deliver some amusing characters but it could have been better.

UGC Cinema
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***

Criminal

Coool movie about small time criminals double crossing each other. Some great acting and a cool pace to it make this one worth checking out. There's a little annoying plot detail, but generally a nice film.

In Flight Movie (Back to the UK)
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****

Taxi

Watched this one whilst flying back to the UK. I am a big fan of the Luc Besson original (and it's sequal) so was interested. It's really bad - even the car chases don't come close to the french sequences. I have no idea what they were thinking. Should have slept instead...

In Flight Movie (Back to UK)
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*