Mark Thomson

This is a neat little film and marvel of animation. The hours and hours of work that goes into making these little plasticine characters come to life is amazing. From the people that created the wonderful Wallace and Gromit series, comes this tale of rebellious chickens trying to escape from a chicken farm.With multiple homages to WWI prisoner/escape movies, as well as little...

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When the new Batman film was announced, I was excited but apprehensive after the two previous films were so disappointing. I can still watch Batman Forever, but I loathe Batman & Robin. I can't stand George Clooney in most things, and the Robin character I've never really liked. Batman is the ultimate hardass, he doesn't need to have a whining kid following him...

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Busy like a crazy bee-like insane thing, buzzing furiously about. So much to get done at the moment, I've been so tired the last few days. I'm tearing through the jobs at home trying to get the house sorted for our move, cleaning out piles of paperwork, junk, and media. We just sold a bunch of our stuff on the net, kudos to...

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I first saw this film on VHS after my brother rented it. It's a classic film, and certainly one of the best from Ahnuld's action stable. The film starts off as a war film with some suspenseful tones that create tension, the military team start as the predators hunting the missing personnel, and later the rebels. Slowly hinting that something else is out...

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This is a really great film. I didn't get to see it until I was into my late teens, since we weren't allowed to see things that were scary, although my grandmother used to watch the sunday night horror movies with me, which is where I first saw Alien. Aliens dispenses with the monster/horror-house feel of the first film, and opts to turn...

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Went mountain biking with Robin from work today and some of this friends. Weather was a bit drizzly in the morning, but it wasn't so bad because it helped to pack down the sand base in the forest, so the riding was pretty good. We took it easy because some of the others weren't experienced riders, although from their devil-may-care attitudes to doing...

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Yay my little man has finally returned. He's been away staying variously with my parents or my grandmother for the last week. I've missed him heaps. It's just not the same without him. I can't even imagined how I lived before I had my children. Sure they sometimes drive you mad, but you never stop loving them, and you only ever want them...

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I can still remember being allowed in my teens to see the first Robocop. It's a brilliant film, sure its graphically violent, but its black comedy themes of corporate enterprise generating profits at the expense of dehumanising and destroying peoples lives is still very much true today.Murphy's journey to regain his humanity is often touching and heartfelt, and in striking contrast to the...

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I'm going to break away for a moment from my usual DVD reviews and actually review a movie. We don't often go to the movies, mostly because of the excessive pricing, but we treated our daughter to the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie last night. It had some good bits, but I'll agree with most people that it wasn't as good as...

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Things are developing at high-speed as usual. Robyn's got the idea of immigrating into her head, and I've come home to find this, that and the other arranged. We've already got somewhere to live, something to drive, she's found a job, and I've put my feelers out into the job market to see what's available. I have managed to get her to agree...

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We've been talking about whether to move overseas or not. There's increasingly becoming less and less to keep us here. Don't get me wrong, we live in a beautiful country and given the choice I'd rather be here, but the money is crap compared to how much its increasingly costing to live here. It's just becoming too hard now, petrol's just gone up...

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