In 2013, the White House, home of the American president was attacked on screen in White House Down which gave us Jamie Foxx as the president and as his protector, Channing Tatum. Coming from big blockbuster director Roland Emmerich whose CV includes Stargate; Universal Soldier; 2012; The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. The film was expected to be a … [Read more...]
From our Playtime to Screen Time
Growing up, we all had a toy we probably loved and some of those toys have found their way to the movies to varying success. The companies that manufacture them have pretty much put all their products into movies to increase product awareness, for example: Barbie; G I Joe; My Little Pony; Masters of the Universe and the pack leader, the multi-million Transformers movies. One … [Read more...]
Solace: Farrell and Hopkins see into the future
In a quiet week of cinema releases, a film called Solace was released starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell, we hadn’t heard of it before, had not even seen a trailer so felt like one of those many direct to DVD’s films Nicolas Cage turns up in of late. So we were quite happy to let this one pass us by until we read an article about the film where we discovered that the … [Read more...]