I love romantic comedies (well funny ones anyway) so they're rarely a guilty pleasure for me. Stuff like biopics and sports films I like but rarely are they any good, as they both tend to be formulaic and dull. Occasionally you get an interesting one every now and then e.g. [iLa Vie En Rose[/i, [iAuto Focus[/i, but usually both are relatively conservative affairs.

For guilty pleasures, I have to mention 'Escape To Victory'...... Just the fact you get Stallone, Michael Caine, Max VonSydow, Bobby Moore, Pele and a host of football stars all together in a film, combined with one of the most hole-ridden scripts of all time, makes this film a bona fide classic....

Especially seeing as Bobby Moore and Edison Arantes do Nascimento are superior actors than Stallone and Caine.

Guilty pleasure: Mean Girls

Lindsay Lohan ?

[iThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.[/i C4 Wed - 10-30pm
[iThe Girl Who Played With Fire.[/i C4 Thu - 12-10am
[iThe Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest[/i C4 Fri - 12-45am

[url=http://wp.me/p1ImSi-jtMy Favourite Performances of 2012[/url

Why guilty? It's a very funny and well made film.

Nah!

That and Easy A, classics

Excellent films.

Emma Stone

[url=http://cinematicsoul.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/freeview-christmas-week-film-choices/My Freeview Choices of for Christmas Week[/url.

Enjoyed both [iMean Girls[/i and [iEasy A[/i. [iPretty Persuasion[/i was good as well although I think [iGhost World[/i might have an edge on those three. Got me thinking now. One of my favourites of that teen genre is [iGinger Snaps[/i but I struggle to find others who liked it. Any fans?

Just watched Salmon Fishing in Yemen, what a load of cr@p!

I will be looking out for all three of those .

Caught it a while ago on a late night trawl around the channels - on SyFy when they actually used to have [isome[/i decent movies. I've seen it a couple of times, and I'd recommend it.

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Thumbs from me on [iDredd[/i. Thought it was terrific. The Slo-Mo scenes in particular were out of this world.

A couple of movies to fill the day with , End of watch & Haywire . I didn't mind the cop movie , Kept me interested till the end although the camara thing was starting to annoy me a little. Haywire didn't really do anything , I preferred Salt over this film .

Watched Life of Pi last night. Cracking film. Great story, beautiful cinematography and great effects. What really made it for me was the use of 3D, mostly used subtly to add a little depth but where in needed to come flying out of the screen it was spectacular, easily the best 3D film I've seen yet.

I enjoyed Looper last night . Something a little different in the sci fi world.

I thought it was a really good film. Very violent, good action flick. Very reminiscent of The Raid: Redemption.

Got to admit I hated the first couple of slowed down scenes. And I do think an aspect of the slo-mo drug was ignored. If people are on that drug so that time seems to slow down for them, their reactions to the judges would have been too quick for the judges.

I like Lena Headey from The Sarah Connor Chronicles (and even more a TV drama about drug addiction from early in her career), but I wish they didn't give her the scar. Sure, it made her look much meaner, but hotness comes first.



The make up to supposedly make Levitt look like Willis was the most useless and pointless make up ever. He still didn't look anything like Willis, he just looked like there was something seriously wrong with him.

Had a day in yesterday and got through a few i had on copy

Safe-Contraband-The Watch-Total Recall

Total Recall, had a better back story & setting than the original but nowhere near the same feel, couldn't connect with the Quaid character with Farrell in the role but not the worst film i've seen

Safe, enjoyed it but like a lot of Jason Statham plot holes a plenty and nothing special, you could have stuck a suit on him and called it Transporter (enter No. here).

Contraband, daft, don't bother.

The Watch, quite a few laugh out loud moments, which i suppose is what you want from a comedy film, not my favourite but i could watch it again if it was on the box, only trouble is you can see what's coming a mile down the road 6.5/10

[url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/culture/2012/10/why-dredd-3d-gets-women-comics-rightInteresting article here on the portrayal of female characters in [iDredd[/i[/url.



Aye, it was unnecessary and ultimately a bit distracting.

Dredd one of the best of the year and totally ignored by filmgoers. I am hoping it gets a better deal by word of mouth. This film definitely deserves a follow up, but is unlikely to get it. If you do one thing in January buy this on Bluray/DVD on it's release.

It could get another if the DVD does well eg Taken flopped at the cinema but went massive on DVD.

Only watched a cam version so far. Completely and utterly hated everything about it. Gonna rent a DVD copy to give it a second chance but doubt it will improve much.



Haven't watched Safe, but I have seen Blitz, where Statham plays a renegade London cop. Should give that a miss and just watch the Sweeney film.



Didn't think it was that bad. But no one would be missing much if they didn't see it. You are able to enjoy Beckinsale in it, which I wasn't even able to in Total Recall.