Articles Written by Andrew Mackenzie
Exodus (2007) Movie review
In late 2006, UK television company Channel 4 began to hype a film that ostensibly had the power to revolutionise the British movie industry. The film, tentatively called “The Margate Exodus” was set to break new ground. Director Penny Woolcock was at the helm of one of the biggest cinematic undertakings in British [...]
November 21st, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MorePhantom Love (2007) Movie Review
At its base level, Nina Menkes’ “Phantom Love” draws a line between introspective art and unbearable pretentiousness. Although the rich visuals and beautiful photography may create a vivid cinematic world, there are no real characters to fill it. Although the heavy visual metaphors are designed to provoke thought, the complete lack of story [...]
September 1st, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Toybox (2005) Movie Review
Oh unbounded joy, another low-budget British horror DVD presents itself to me for review. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love watching and reviewing movies, and I am a big advocate of British cinema, but if you’ve ever endured films like “The Witches Hammer” then you’ll excuse me for being a little jaded. “The Toybox” [...]
May 18th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreThis is England (2006) Movie Review
Of the many filmmakers working in Britain today, Shane Meadows can be seen as the only one making films about Britain. With “This Is England”, he transports the viewer into the seedy world of inner-city gangs, just as he did a decade ago with “TwentyFourSeven”. However, the world of skinheads and working-class thugs is a [...]
May 4th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 comment | Read MoreSunshine (2007) Movie Review
Once, every now and then, a movie comes along with imagery and tone so solid that it makes me say, “Yeah”. I say it with a sort of nonchalant awe and relaxed wonder, not unlike the reaction Shaft would give upon seeing a UFO landing and a super fine alien chick stepping out. The first [...]
April 10th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 comment | Read MoreHot Fuzz (2007) Movie Review
“Hot Fuzz” is the latest offering from the writer/director team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, whose last collaboration was 2004’s brilliant zombie-romantic comedy “Shaun of the Dead”. This time the duo turns to lampooning the police buddy action genre, but they also have an ulterior motive: to create a British-made action movie that’s actually [...]
March 7th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 comments | Read MoreThe Witchers Hammer (2006) Movie Review
“The Witches Hammer” is, in essence, a low-budget British take on the “babe with a blade” vampire movie formula. Over the last few years, the likes of the “Underworld” movies, “Ultraviolet” and “Bloodrayne” have all tried to lend a feminine edge to the vampire/martial arts sub-genre that “Blade” pioneered in 1998. The problem with this [...]
February 6th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreSaw III (2006) Movie Review
When “Saw” came on the scene in 2004, it delivered a much-needed jolt to the limp body of American horror. Working with a relatively small budget, James Wan and Leigh Whannell created a visceral yet psychological character-driven horror movie, eschewing the generic slasher flicks and anemic Japanese ghost story remakes that plagued the industry. They [...]
February 1st, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MorePerfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) Movie Review
One would think that “Run Lola Run” director Tom Tykwer would have approached the task of adapting Bernd Eichinger’s novel “Perfume” for screen with a sense of trepidation. Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick had all been approached at one time or another to direct this tale of a killer with an [...]
January 12th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 comments | Read MoreSee No Evil (2006) Movie Review
“See No Evil” is a movie designed essentially to showcase WWE wrestler Kane. Proof of this comes about thirty seconds in, when “produced by WWE films” appears on screen. Oddly enough, “See No Evil” was also produced by Lionsgate, a company that has been fairly consistent in pushing some of the best American horrors to [...]
December 16th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 comment | Read MoreKarla (2006) Movie Review
Many of you will probably know Laura Prepon as “the redhead” from the popular Fox sitcom “That 70s Show”, and after seeing her play girl-next-door Donna Pinciotti for eight years, it’s kind of hard to accept her as a peroxide-blonde accessory to the rape and murder of three schoolgirls. “Karla” is based on the true [...]
October 28th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 comments | Read MoreSnakes on a Plane (2006) Movie Review
Believe it or not, the aptly titled “Snakes on a Plane” began life when studio execs tried to come up with the worst movie concept ever: a myriad of venomous and very angry snakes are released on a plane while in mid-air and start attacking passengers. As a joke, they put this idea on a [...]
September 15th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 comments | Read More
look katie don't have the breast for it and tara reid don't either and she has to be tall like ...
unbelievable.
how and why the fuck havent they tried to come even close to making the characters look like they in ...
I could of put Morgan Freeman as Master Rochie. hahahahaha jk
You know who i think could of been a ...
It does come out in November - the 21st. :) 
Did Akira Toriyama even have a say in any of this? Or does he just not care and is trying ...
