Go and see Big Fish on the big screen if your a lover of great movies. I can't see why anyone wouldn't love this one. I had a huge grin on my face from start to finish watching this. A instant classic! Tim Burtons best movie to date by a long shot.

It's a story about a Father that loves telling stories and a son thats grown up to be sick to death of heading them. It's not until his father gets very ill that his son start trying to work out what parts of his father stories are truths and and what's not.

Now some of these stories are pretty amazing, some might even say verging on the fantastical side of realty, but one thing they are, is beautifully crafted and told by a master story teller. I will not tell you anything that happen because each tail is such a joy to hear with a fresh open mind.and no idea with what's going to happen next.

This is a a real jem of a movie, something that will touch your heart and give you a whole new fresh look on life.

HERO

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Review by
Louis Dimsdale
11 out of 10

It doesn't get much better than this. Hero has a super cast starting some of the biggest names in Hong Kong movie industry with Jet Li, Donny Yen (Iron Monkey, Shanghai Knights), Maggie Chueng (The Heroic Trio, Police Story 2), Tony Leung (Infernal.Affairs, Tokyo Raider) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tighter, Rush Hour2).

The story is set (my Chinese history isn't that great and all the in-movie text is in Chinese) at the dawn of the great dynasty with the forming of one Kingdom under one Emperor. A great many wars has been fort many years and the Emperor has made many enemies in the process.

The movie unfolds in a unique way, No Name (Jet Li) arrives at the Emperors Palace to clamed the bounty on a number of assassins that had formally tried to kill Emperor. The Emperor asks to hear his intriguing tale and for payment of each of the bounties, No Name is aloud nearer and nearer to the Emperor, which he secretly intends to kill.

Anyway's, you will have to see the movie to find out how it unfolds. But this so one of the most beautifully looking movies ever. The colour's are amazing, it's sort of like a huge budget art house movie. The fights are just magic to watch. Forget that crap you seen in the matrix movies, these fights are just amazing.

This movie is meant to be getting a release in the west, but who knows when. I say buy it from your locale importer or direct from a Hong Kong online store. This is one of the greatness movies ever made (well, Iiked it ;).

NED

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Review by
Louis Dimsdale
8 out of 10

Well, I have to say the resent big budget Ned Kelly movie with Heath Ledger sort of sucked. Maybe Ned really wasn't a very exciting guy after all? But this comic version just rocks!

Written, Directed and Stared in by Abe Forsythe (Who's he?) this is a fun, smelly, poo poo of a movie. Something that I just suited me down to a tea. From Ned's father being a rubber plant farmer to the hamster loving Governor Sinclair, it doesn't get much Stillier than this. Other classic moments are the bank robbery where they do there boy band number, the KKK and the goat, Nudge from hey dad, the blowing up of the bridge and the scene in the brothel with the various balls.

For a young first time Director, this his a good laugh a minute movie that is very much worth tracking down at your locale video store.

28 Days Later

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Review by
Louis Dimsdale
9 out of 10

Lets all welcome back what I hope is a new eria of the good old Zombie flick!! (if anyone out there saw that assuie zombie moive UnDead, write us in review of that for us, we missed seeing it here)

Directed by Danny Boyle, the guy that brought us great movie such as The Beach (well, I loved it), Trainspotting & Shallow Grave comes the indie movie '28 Days Later'. A deadly virus has wiped out most of the population and turned the rest into crazed flesh eating Zombies. The movie starts 28 days after the initial outbreak with Jim awaking in a hospital bed and wondering around completely deserted London streets until he runs into a pack of zombies. The zombies in this movie are totally berserk, supers fast and very savage.

Anyway, Jim meets up with a few other people and they all set of to track down a army message playing on a radio station, believing it to be thier savour.

The ending of the movie is pretty guy so hung in through the end of the credits for the real ending.

Cypher

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Review by
Louis Dimsdale
9 out of 10

I love going to see a movie that I know nothing about. I herd that CYPHER was directed by the guy that did CUBE (another excellent movie) and that was enough for me to drag Ferdinand along with me.

This is a very complex story, and I must amit, that it lost me for a little while there, but it's one of those movies that you can't get out of your head afterwards. Morgan Sullivan is a humble accountant working at a multinational company called Digicorp, who dreams of a life a little more exciting. When the opportunity arises to move up in the ranks and become a corporate spy, he jumps at the chance - only to find his 'spying' involves little more than attending trade conventions on cheese, aftershave and recording the proceedings for his bosses. But on a seemingly chance meeting with a pretty girl in a bar, Morgan Sullivans world soon start to unravel around him.

I don't want to say much more, but if you liked movies along the lines of The Matrix, Clockwork Orange or Total Recall, yours going to have fun here.

I hade a couple of airconditioning guys in my office the other day and it really reminded me of a scene from Brazil. What with all this terrorist stuff happening lately I thought it was a good example of art imitating life. Any way here goes.

With all the world being more concerned than ever about terrorism I revisited a movie called Brazil, made by one of my all time favorite Animators and Producer/Directors Terry Gilliam. Brazil is George Orwell's 1984 created in 1985. With a slightly romantic and prophetic feel to it Brazil is the story of Sam Lowry who is caught up in a world run by bureaucrats and fashion freaks. Terrorism is a common problem, tradesman are hard to come by, bureaucracy runs everything and fashion sets high prices for its devotees. It all adds up to a beautiful futurist parody of modern life. In the middle of this we follow a middle aged and intelligent guy go through a life changing and empowering event that gets him into all types of trouble and eventually makes him an enemy of the state. I really recommend this movie it has Blade runner style sets and definite Orwellian overtones. For any one who is already confused about the state of the world this movie is a must. Not because it will help clear things up, but because it will make you realize your not alone

Directed by Rolf De Heer (Bad Boy Bobby), this movie tells the fictional story of The Tracker (David Gulpilil) on the trail of another accused of raping a women. Accompanying him are, The Fanatic (Gary Sweet), The Follower and The Veteran (none of them are ever refured to by name) occupy him on the search. But when the party come across a group of locales camping along a river and start questioning them, the interrogation soon turns to a massacre. And we are left wondering there the loyalties of The Tracker now really lie.

As the groups moves deeper into the Australian out back, they soon become more and more reliant on the Tracker as the fiction between the men starts to grows.

Anyway, this movie just blew me away, it was sort of shot like an old Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western. The music was truly haunting and Aboriginal paints where used to show extreams in the movie to great effect.

You should be able to pick this up at any good video store.

Mate!!! How much fun can you have with 3 spunky chicks in one movie. No this isn't that Holywood Charlies Angles remake rubish, this is pure Hong Kong loving action fun. Staring the beautiful Shu Qi (Gorgeous, The Transporter), Zhao Wel (Shaolin Soccer) and Karen Mok (Black Mask I think). Directed by the HK action master Corey Yuen (Fong Sai Yuk, The Transporter, Kiss of the Dragon).

The cool story line revolves around 2 sisters court up in a deadly double cross by a group of powerful corporate gangsters that just hired them for a job, whiles a Rookie Cop and her parter trie to unravel who just pulled the job. A turn of events bring the girls together as they shoot, kung-fu, samurai sowrd their way through the badess. (a very simplifed summary of events, I don't want to give to much of it away)

This was one of them suprise movies that just passed me by completely un-notice, so a big thanks must go out to my lovely miss's for finding this one at the locale video store (she has brought home some crap over the years).