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Cinema Times for The Vue (Swansea) for weekend 8/8/2008

jaldron — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:25:56 +0000

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (12A)

Fri-Sun 2.50, 5.05, 7.30, 9.50

The Dark Knight (12A)

Fri-Sun 10.10, 11.00, 1.20, 2.15, 3.10, 4.30, 5.30, 6.30, 7.45, 8.45, 9.45, 11.15 (Fri/Sat)

The Fox And The Child (U)

Fri-Sun 11.30AM

Hancock (12A)

Fri-Sun 9.20PM, 11.30PM (Fri/Sat)

Kung Fu Panda (PG)

Fri-Sun 10.30AM, 12.40PM

The Love Guru (12A)

Fri-Sun (Audio Description Available) 10.40 (FRI), 1.00 (FRI/SAT), 1.00 (SUN, Subtitled)

Make It Happen (PG)

Fri-Sun 10.05, 12.10, 2.10, 4.25, 6.50, 9.00, 11.10 (FRI/SAT)

Mamma Mia! (PG)

Fri-Sun 11.20, 1.50, 2.55, 4.20, 5.20, 7.00, 7.50, 9.30, 10.30, 11.50 (FRI/SAT)

The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor (12A)

Fri-Sun 10.15, 12.15, 1.15, 2.05, 3.15, 4.15, 5.15, 6.15, 7.15, 8.15, 9.15, 10.15, 11.00(Fri-Sat), Midnight (Fri/Sat)

Space Chimps (U)

Fri-Sun 10.2AM,12.35PM

Star Dust (PG)

Sat/Sun Kids Club 10.35AM

WALL-E (U)

Fri-Sun 10.20, 10.50, 12.45, 1.25, 4.00, 6.45

The X-Files: I Want To Believe (15)

Fri-Sun Audio-Description Available 3.25, 5.45, 8.25

Your move Mr. Bond!

jaldron — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:12:22 +0000

Picture Courtesy of Nickslidepics

Casino Royale is the 21st Bond film but due to some legal wrangling between studios in the sixties, it is actually based on the first of Ian Fleming’s Bond books. Due to this, the Bond we see here, excellently handled by Daniel Craig, is much less polished Bond, a lot more gruff, quite egotistical and prone to a few errors in judgement.

The plot of the film centers around a villain known as ‘Le Chiffre’ (The Number), who uses engineered acts of terrorism to make profits off of borrowed money on the stock market. When Bond scuppers a couple of these plans, Le Chiffre is left in serious debt to some extremely unsavoury types and decides the best way to recoup his money is by way of a huge high stakes poker tournament, to which Bond is sent.

The tournament itself is handled quite well with nice chunks of fast paced action interspersed with the tense drama provided by the high stakes poker hands. 8/10

Who you gonna call?

seannelson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:16:02 +0000

Ghostbusters Directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver and Annnie potts.

With the new game almost here, I thought I would review the original classic Sci-Fi comedy that is Ghostbusters. It follows a group of university professors Dr Peter Venkmen (Bill Murray), Dr Ray Stanz (Dan Aykroyd) and Dr Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) get fired from their University and decide to start up their own business to investigate the paranormal and catch ghosts with thier Secetary Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts). Business is a bit slow until a lady named Dana Barret (Sigourney Weaver) comes in to discuss the strange things that is going on in her kitchen. Peter goes to investigate but finds nothing. Things pick up for the Ghostbusters when they get a call from the Sedgewick Hotel with their proton packs they meet the loveable ghost Slimer and learn why we should never cross the streams. The Ghostbusters become a hit with the public and a new member is added to the team, a Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). But this is just the begginning of a bigger threat by the name of Gozer and her minions Zuul and Vinz Clortho who posses Dana and her neighbor Louis Tully (Rick Moranis).

Originally released in 1984 this movie has aged very well. The story, jokes and effects still funny and scary even today. It is a real classic film and should be seen by everybody.

Watch the Trailer

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Cujo

deborahpower — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:16:28 +0000

Book: Written by Stephen King.

Film: Adapted from book writing creditors Don Carlos Dunaway and Lauren Currier.

Directed by: Lewis Teague

Main characters Cujo ……… The St Bernard. Donna Trenton………Dee Wallace Stone.

Vic Trenton…..Daniel Hugh Kelly. Tad Trenton………Danny Pintauro

Cujo was written first as a novel by Stephen King in 1981 and later released as a film in 1983. It’s all about a great heavy St Bernard dog called Cujo, who chases a rabbit into a bat cave which disturbs them and in the excitement of them flying around and Cujo trying to catch them he gets bitten by a rabid bat. Cujo lives with garage mechanic Joe Cambers at Castle-Rock Maine, a peaceful idyllic area where the Trentons, Donna and Vic have come to live with their young son Tad.

Vic is a high flyer in the city and is away at work a lot. This puts a lot of strain on the marriage and leads Donna to have an affair with the local handy man. One extremely hot scorcher of a day Donna and Tad take the car to the garage for some minor repairs, here also is Cujo who’s about to go berserk.

Book in my opinion better than the film, also not the same ending. Neither for the faint hearted.

After reading or watching! ……….Bet you never look at your dog quite the same again.

From this to this in just one bite.

FIGHT CLUB !

margaretfloyd — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:56:26 +0000

Fight Club was released in 1999 it is an adaptation of the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk. Starring Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) and Edward Norton as the nameless (narrator).The narrator who cannot match society’s requirements for happiness.He also suffers from insomnia. his doctor refuses to give him sleeping pills and suggests he visit a testicular cancer support group so he can appreciate real suffering. After attending the group he breaks down and is able to sleep! So he starts to fake more illnesses so that he can attend more groups on doing this he meets another impostor, Marla Singer(Helena Boham Cater). He then meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on a business trip who is a soap salesman and they exchange phone numbers. When the narrator arrives home his flat has been destroyed by an explosion.With this he calls Tyler and they meet up. Tyler agrees to let him stay with him on one condition, that the narrator hits him.The two end up having a fist fight outside the bar which they enjoy. The narrator moves in with Tyler. They then return to the bar and have another fight this is when “fight club” is established. I don’t want to give to much away,but there are a lot of metaphors this is one of Brad Pitt’s

“Fight Club is a metaphor for the need to push through the walls we put around our selves and just go for it, So for the first time we can experience the pain.”

The director intended the bathtub scene to represent a homoerotic moment.To make the audiences uncomfortable and unprepared for the film’s coming events.

The twist at the end of the film left me with a lot of unanswered questions, So a second viewing is definitely recommended .Tyler Durden’s recitation of the rules of fight club is one of the most quoted monologues in film “

“ The first rule of fight club…you do not talk about fight club…The second rule of fight club is…you do not talk about fight club..”

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Maggies Film Review

margaretfloyd — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:59:10 +0000

Hello my name is Maggie, I enjoy a wide selection films especially psychological thrillers such as Jacobs Ladder. I love a film that stays with you hours after you have watched it . I also like a good spy movie full of espionage and suspense such as the fantastic Bourne Ultimatum with the gorgeous Matt Damon.I think a film should be like a good book that you don’t want to put down, That keeps you guessing till the end.

Jamie’s Film Reviews

jaldron — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:38:12 +0000

My name’s Jamie and I’ll be reviewing films on this blog. I mainly like comedies, science fiction, action and gangster movies. Some of my favourite films are Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrells, The Star Wars series(episode 3 is my favourite but they’re all good), Reservoir Dogs and Friday.

Debbies Film Review

deborahpower — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:41:04 +0000

Basically I enjoy supernatural and comedy, do not like war films unless their futuristic, all films that leave a cliffhanger. One of my favourite old comedies are the Norman Wisdom films, a modern one is Men in Black. The most fav supernatural films are ones usually directed and written by Stephen King.

Kung Fu Panda

jaldron — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:41:44 +0000

Picture courstesy of suksim

Now, I like cartoons, I like Kung-fu movies, I quite like Jack Black as an actor, you’d think then that I would probably love this effort from Mark Osborne and Jack Stevenson, but … I don’t. For some reason I just couldn’t get into it. Sure thing, the animation’s pretty, it has an A-List cast, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman no less, but I personally thought there was just nothing too great about the movie as a whole.

The story is quite simple, Po the panda (Jack Black) is a noodle chef with dreams of being a kung-fu master and joining the Furious 5, a troupe of kung-fu masters led by their master Shifu (Hoffman), on the day that one of them is to be chosen as ‘the dragon warrior’, a freak accident means that Po is chosen instead. This means that Po, a lazy, slacker of a panda at best must be trained in the ways of kung fu and defend the valley of peace from the evil Tai Lung (Ian McShane). Hilarity apperently was meant to ensue.

I think the reason I didn’t really like this film is because the core ingredients of Kung-fu movie and kids cartoon sort of contradict each other. In a kung-fu movie I want to see a Jet Li, Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee facing hundreds of nunchuck wielding ninja assassins, I want action, I want to leave the film feeling like I could fight the world, hii-ya! Unfortunately Kung-fu Panda did not deliver this and what it left in instead was a fairly tediuous mushy story with an ending so predictable I didn’t even need to see the film to guess it. I like custard, I like Jelly, I like Steak, but they should never be served in the same dish, I think the same can be said about cartoons, kung-fu and Jack Black. 4/10

“Jumper”

deborahpower — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:19:54 +0000

Picture courtesy of nickslidepics

This film stars Hayden Christiansen as the main jumper (teleporter) David Rice.

Fellow jumper Griffin, played by Jamie Bell of (Billy Elliot) fame

Rachael Bilson as Millie (Davids girlfriend). Dianne Lane and Michael Rooker as David,s parents Mary and William.

Samuel L Jackson, As NSA agent (National Security) Roland Cox

David lives with his father. His mother left when he was 5. At the age of 15 he discovers he can jump, anywhere, anyplace, alone or with someone or thing that he touches in the present day. David goes to New York where he decides to rob a bank using his power of jumping. This gets Roland on the case and he’s out to get him.

Roland is not a jumper, he and his fellow men believe all jumpers that exist are evil and must be destroyed. They have a machine which can locate jumpers, then they have to act quickly to kill them before they jump again.

David decides to go see his high school sweet heart, it’s been 8 years since he’s been home but she still holds a candle for David. David explains to Millie of his power and she asks him to take her to Rome as she would love to see the Colosseum. Here David meets up with Griffin who tells him that Roland will kill him when he finds him so fellow jumper Griffin and David set out to get Roland before he gets them. Many close conflicts follow with the jumpers and the NSA. In the pursuits that follow David encounters his mother who is also a jumper but unfortunately for David, Mary is on the side of Roland who has already killed David’s father.

This a very fast and furious action packed film,with fantastic visual effects and supurb scenery.

Samuel L Jackson as always excellent performance.

The cliffhanger finish was a bit disappointing but does leave way for a sequel.

Director Doug Linman (The Bourne Identity and Mr and Mrs Smith)

Writer/producer Simon Kinberg and producer Lucas Foster. Visual effects Ellen M. Somers