Kung Fu Summer Camp 2007

Kungfu Summer Camp Newquay 28th July to 5th August 2007 The good, the bad and the ugly from the Lewes and Burgess Hill club descended on Cornwall in spite of all the gloomy warnings of rain and wind. We were…

Hostel

Two wide-eyed American students, back-packing across Europe, are looking for fun with sex and drugs and Europop. Their young men’s appetites take them to Slovakia where they discover that, not only are all the women beautiful but they all fancy…

The Fountain

Loved by some and hated by a whole lot of others, Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie is every bit as weird and, some would say, wonderful, as his previous highly original movies, Pi and Requiem for a Dream. Tom (Hugh Jackman)…

Spider-Man 3

It’s slick, funny and spectacular and, for a change, here’s a super hero sequel that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is still the nerdiest of nerds but he has grown accustomed to his success as Spider-Man.…

TMNT

Those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back. The little green turtles were fun in the Eighties and Nineties but their 21st Century reinvention, in so-so animation, is just plain dull. It was a witty comic book parody of the X-Men…

Inland Empire

Wildly imaginative to some, infuriating to others, surrealist David Lynch is back with his most uncompromising movie since Eraserhead. If you didn’t like his previous films, you’ll hate this. If you’re a fan or if you’re just open to a…

The Science of Sleep

The director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind shows us his imagination in this highly original new movie but he also tries our patience with a plot that gets lost somewhere along the way. Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal)…

Black Book (Zwartboek)

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven who brought us the iconic Robocop and Basic Instinct but also rubbish like Showgirls returns to his roots and finds his form again. A beautiful Jewish singer, Rachel (Carice van Houten) is bombed out of her…

A Prairie Home Companion

Cert 12A The last movie from great film director Robert Altman, who died last year, is a fitting epitaph to an illustrious career. A Prairie Home Companion is a long-running variety show on American National Public Radio, hosted by that…

A Young Man’s Game

A young man’s game;flexing muscles,oiling engines,gun barrel proud. Lungs at capacity, heart on maximum,legs at full stretch, manhood proven. No pain, no gain,you can do it,come on mate,just go for it. Fraternity,camaraderie,buddies,all together now. The first kill,bloodied, shaken, hardened,hurt inside.…