Highlander (1986)

Director: Russell Mulcachy
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown
Certificate: 15
Genre: Fantasy
Awards: None

Highlander is a fantasy film about an immortal scotsman named Connor Macleod (Lambert). After his tribe banished him for being unnatural, he is trained by another immortal. a spanish man named Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Connery) who teaches him how to fight. He also explains that one day all the immortals have to kill each other for a prize, but he doesn't explain anymore than that. In present day, Connor is under the name Ricky Nash.  The Kurgan (Brown) - the strongest immortal - now wants to kill Macleod to win the prize. Brenda wyatt (Hart) is also a major character, a police woman who wants to find out why people are fighting with swords in car parks.

Highlander has a very 80's look to it with its special effects. I like the story as it is original and unexpected.  I was surprised when I found out that there are four sequels to this film as it seems as if the story was all tied and finished. Overall a good film.

****Good 

Highlander Trailer

Music and Lyrics (2007)

Director: Marc Lawrence
Starring: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Haley Bennett.
Certificate: PG
Genre: Comedy, music, romance
Awards: None














Alex Fletcher (Grant) is an ex pop star who has been signed on to write a song for the new generation star: Cora Corman (Bennett). But when the woman who waters his plants - Sophie Fisher (Barrymore) -  starts to make up lyrics, Alex thinks he can make a songwriter out of her.

Music and lyrics is a funny film. with almost parody music videos and the stars are brilliant in their roles. This is one of my favourite romance films

****Good

Music and Lyrics Trailer

Sin City (2005)

Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino (Guest)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba
Certificate: 18
Genre: Film Noir, Action
Awards: None
Sin City was going to be my first film review but I never got round to doing it until now.

Sin City follows the stories of three men in the city. Hartigan (Willis) is a cop trying to stop the rape of an 11 year old girl by the son of a senator. Dwight (Owen) is tired of the corruption of the cops and decides to take the law into his own hands. He then has to help the prostitutes in sin city dispose of a cop's body. Marv (Rourke) is framed for the murder of a prostitute and decides to track down who really killed her.

Sin City is a film like no other. It's black and white image is splashed with bits of colour like a comic book  and has a cool voice over from all three characters. All the stories link together and the villains are defiantly rememberable (Elijah Wood has no fear of typecasting now!)

*****Brilliant

Sin City Trailer

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Jordi Molla
Certificate: 12
Genre: History Drama
Awards: Best Costume design
Queen Elizabeth (Blanchett) has survived assassination plots and battles so far with the help of the assassin Walsingham (Rush), but now King Phillip (Molla) of Spain is set on having a catholic queen of England and will stop at nothing to have it so. The Queen is distracted from this by the Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen) as he becomes her new love interest.

E:TGA does not hold up to it's predecessor, as a lot of the film will bore you to death. Geoffrey Rush has nothing to do, and he's the best character. It has a different feel to the first film (Probably because most of the original cast were killed off in the first one).

***Okay