Films to watch in 2012
After a disappointing 2011, it looks like the year ahead could reaffirm faith in quality movies. It’s the time of year when we go out on a limb and tell you what we think you should look forward to in the coming 12 months. Take a read and let us know in the poll below! The Hobbit The two-part prequel [...]
Summer’s Hottest Movie Stars
Some of the years hottest films are set to be released over the summer, but plot and analysis aside, who is the hottest woman that will be hitting your screen? We have selected a few, let us know what you think! Emma Watson Personally not my favourite, but this is her swansong as Hermoine Granger, a role that has ensured [...]
Classic Films: Blade Runner
Back in 1982, Ridley Scott produced a Cyber Punk gem that soon became a cult classic and adored by many devoted fans around the world. Loosely based on the book by Phillip K Dick ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’. This film was originally a box office flop, but is still ranked by critics as one of the most important science fiction [...]
Classic Films: The Goonies
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 [...]
X-Men First Class: top marks or flunking out?
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 [...]
Classic Films: Top Gun
Howdy all – I’m back to give you a piece of silver screen goodness that you young’uns may not have seen, but the slightly older generation will remember with great joy. This week is the jet fuelled, slightly homo-erotic man time pleasure. Top Gun! Top Gun Release Date — 16th May 1986 Gross Revenuee — $358,816,701 Lt Pete ‘Maverick‘ Mitchell (Tom [...]
Classic Films: Police Academy
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 [...]
Amber Heard
Amber Heard has been around for a fair few years now, appearing in films such as Never Back Down (we love!), Pineapple Express (we love!), All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (eh?) and Zombieland (yep, we love it!) and she in back on our screens again! We don’t feel she has had the respect of our fellow people she deserves [...]
Paul – Film Review
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 [...]
Best Films of 2010
2010 was originally meant to be a year without big name blockbusters, however it proved to be an action packed year in the film business from start to finish. Here is my top 12 films of the past year. Let me know if you agree or not! 12. Daybreakers Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill star in this futuristic film where [...]












