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‘Hell In The Pacific’ - Film Review.

A few weeks ago, they put an absolute gem of a film on television (I have to admit now that it completely distracted me from my work from home jobs). John Boorman’s ‘Hell in the Pacific’ may now be forty-four years old, but it is still a milestone in cinema. It stars Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as two soldiers from opposing sides who find themselves marooned on a remote island.

There is very little dialogue throughout the whole More

‘The Messengers’ - NOT a New Experience in Terror…

What is it with horror movies? They have been making them for donkey’s years but so many of them are still so damn corny. If you don’t agree, then have a look at some of the tosh on ‘Zone Horror’; you’ll soon come round to my way of thinking.

The other night I sat and watched, ‘The Messengers’. ‘Oooo, this looks good!’, I thought as I watched the Tim Burton-esque opening sequence. However, apart from some really nice photography, the More

The Beauty In American Beauty

Kevin Spacey is a special kind of actor: somewhat of a rare breed. What most people don’t know about the man is that he has a deep passion for writing and performing theatre, and indeed owns his own company – something which, and almost everyone who is involved in theatre will agree, is something to be done through love, not money. That said, after American Beauty, money wasn’t exactly Spacey’s primary concern. The film, a bizarrely affectionate tale of fragmented More

Film Review: Saw

Like it or loathe it, the Saw series is, undoubtedly, one of the most successful horror franchises in recent years. But right at the beginning, before it span wildly out of control and turned into a hyper-active, verging on tedium gore-fest, the first Saw film was intended to be a one off piece. Penned by James Wann (who had little to do with subsequent films and didn’t approve of the direction they were taking), it started a trend which nobody More

REC 2 - Film Review.

NOTE: - NO SPOILERS CONTAINED. IT’S SAFE TO CARRY ON READING.

A couple of years ago, I had the crap scared out of me by ‘REC’. I have seen a good many horror movies over the years, but this one really managed to give me the willies. So, ever since I heard they were making a sequel, I have been really looking forward to seeing it.

Well, today More

Modern Classic: Garden State

How do you rate a film as truly great? No, come to think of it, how do you rate a film when you can’t even categorize it to begin with? Garden State is one of these such breathtaking films; part drama, part black comedy, part love story, it is one of the few brave releases in recent years to tackle deadly serious subject matter and interweave it with the kind of catchy, loveable characteristics of cheesy romantic films that punch More

For A Cause: Gorillas In The Mist

The story of American heroin Dian Fossey and her eighteen years spent living amongst the mountain Gorillas in Rwanda seems almost too fantastical to be true, but yet it is entirely so. A zoologist by profession, Fossey, at the very beginning of her mountain-life—it seems somehow wrong and condescending, somehow, to use the word ‘career’ when you consider the ever-lasting effect her enthusiasm and research had on the world scientific community—actually knew very little about what she was to encounter; More

A Lost Gem.

Hello and welcome to Kung Kuan movie review site. Why did we choose this domain name? We thought that it sounded a little bit like King Kong…

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