HEY YOUUUU GUYS!!! I hope you have all seen this classic film before, if not where have you been?! The Goonies Release Date – June 7th 1985 Gross Revenue – $61,389,680 The film that effectively started Sean Astin and Josh Brolin’s careers & one of Richard Donner’s best in the directors chair. The Goonies is a feel good film about [...]

This prequel to the existing X-Men franchise takes us back to the origins of the X-Men unit and the beginnings of that troubled relationship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. We meet a whole host of new mutants (or old as is the reality), mainly youngsters, with a variety of abilities. As you’d expect from an X-Men film, they get [...]

With reports of a fourth American Pie film going into script and the current Fast and Furious 17 release, it got me thinking that many Hollywood production companies are flogging franchises to death with their money grabbing sequels.  Sure American Pie 1, 2 and even the Wedding were comedy gold, but after the straight to video monstrosities like American Pie: [...]

A New feature here on AJB where I take you back into the archives to give you a piece of Silver Screen goodness from back in the day, us, ahem, ‘oldies’ will remember these foldly, but you young grasshoppers may never have had the pleasure! First up is a classic piece of 1980s comedy gold and the start of a [...]

We all have our favourite trilogies: Star Wars, Back to the Future, Alien (nobody wants to count Resurrection), Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, the list goes on. Did I miss yours? The film loving chaps at BFI (British Film Institute) know this, and their all night showings of some of these great sets [...]

You either love it, hate it, or are indifferent to it. This statement could be equally true of your feelings towards both Star Wars or 3D. No matter how you feel about either, there is an unsurprising stir across a galaxy far, far away as the entire 6 part saga is to be post-rendered into 3D. The Phantom Menace is [...]

I, like I am sure many others, am forever swapping HDMI cables between my devices so I can plug my laptop in to the TV. Whether for watching films, iPlayer or just some full screen goodness! Two porblems occur, the hassle of changing leads, and the fact I lose my laptop to whatever I have on screen. Well the Veebeam [...]

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost return together to the big screen for the first time since the smash hit Hot Fuzz, but this time without their anchorman Edgar Wright.  The film is directed by Superbads Greg Mottola, and also stars American star Seth Rogen, who voices the Alien Paul. The story depicts Pegg and Frost as two comic book geeks [...]

Channel 4 are launching a new show, Friday Night Dinner on 25th February. And before you think ‘Come Dine with me spin off’ we can assure you it’s not! Featuring Simon Bird (Will from the in-betweeners), Friday Night Dinner is a comedy about two brothers who come home to visit their parents and fall straight back into the ‘brotherly love’ [...]

As you know the SuperBowl is just around the corner (this Sunday!), and just as famed for one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it is also prime time for some of the world largest brands to release their latest TV adverts to one of televisions single biggest world audiences. This year will feature two adverts from Volkswagen [...]