The mood was set, bottle of red wine, bag of minstrels, phone off the hook and we eagerly hit play on the remote control. Thirty minutes later and my girlfriend was now in the kitchen cooking dinner and I was necking the wine in the morbid hope that something more interesting might happen if I watch it drunk. We had ordered Be Kind Rewind from lovefilm.com and were really looking forward to it. Jack Black and Danny Glover are of course legends in film and it had come highly recommended from a friend of ours. In hindsight I now realise that the friend who recommended it is a cameraman and short film producer who clearly fell into the trap of thinking this was ...  Read the complete review

Written and directed by Michel Gondry, 'Be Kind Rewind' is a far fetched comedy. During a late night visit to sabotage the local power-plant, 'Jerry' (played by Jack Black) becomes 'magnetised' and unwittingly wipes all the tapes in his local video store. With the help of his friend Mike (played by Mos def) who works in the shop, the pair decide to recreate the deleted films in a somewhat unconventional manner, before shop owner Elroy Fletcher (Danny Glover) returns from a trip. It's a predictable performance from Black, playing the role in his standard 'goof-ball' style. I much prefer him in 'School of Rock', and 'Pick of Destiny' - as they were ...  Read the complete review

Step into my time machine and let me take you back. The year is 1998, does not seem that long ago does it, but its now a decade! You are in my room in my student accommodation (lucky you) and behold you are in film heaven. The walls are adorned with posters of films both old and new, in the corner is a knackered old TV, but more importantly it's huge. There is also a settee and next to it what can only be described as a lazy chair for the uber slob. But what about the piece de resistance? Where there should be a skirting board there is none. Instead the entire room has a trail of videos in alphabetical order from '12 Monkeys' to 'Zulu'. What a collection I had a .  Read the complete review