A Nightmare On Elm Street. A true classic and a franchise that has been close to my heart since the mid eighties. Sure the only decent movies in the series were parts 1 and 3 but in truth I enjoyed every entry in the series, yes, even Freddy's Dead. What I got from these movies was a trash popcorn horror movie that entertained me for the hour and a half I was there. That's enough of the sequels, we're here to discuss the original and it's new re-imagining of the same title. It's no secret that I was a little less than impressed.

Reported to be Michael Caine's last major starring role Harry Brown is a disturbing look at British urban society and the horror of living on an inner city housing estate where even the police fear to tread.

Sam Mendes (Road To Perdition, American Beauty) brings us this relationship story of a couple expecting their first child. They are in their mid thirties and up until now have coasted along happy with the very little in life they have.

I finally got to see Neill Blomkamp's District 9 tonight after a couple of false starts. The anticipation I had for this movie was at it's highest and as the movie opened I was on tender hooks because the film wasn't quite framed right. Of course this was no fault of the film but a small gaffe by The Electric cinema who usually offer a flawless performance so I can forgive them for that.

(500) Days Of Summer is the new love story that claims from the outset that it is not a love story. Expecting the usual run of the mill rom-com I was pleasantly surprised at what unfolded as a real life rom-com including all the bad bits of a relationship as well as the good. The story follows the sad sack life of Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a man who wanted to be an architect but finds himself writing greeting cards for a living as he first sets eyes on Summer (Zooey Deschanel), the woman who he believes to be 'the one' and so we begin the 500 days of their relationship.

The Final Destination is the fourth film in the Final Destination series that began way back in 2000. Over the last 10 years the films have built up a fan base of cinema goers looking forward to some cartoon style decapitations and other gruesome ends. The actual story in each one is identical with a group of friends narrowly avoiding a fatal accident after one of them experiences a premonition of the event.

Rob Zombie returns to complete his re-envisioning of the Halloween series.

Tonight I attended the 9pm showing of Watchmen. I had finished a long day at work and the auditorium was very warm so at times I almost dropped off. The reason I am telling you this first is that the conditions were not right for me to fully enjoy the movie. Whilst watching I was distracted by the heat and my tiredness. Although the movie does have some genuine self indulgent scenes that drag on for an eternity, as a whole this is a movie like no other. I think after another viewing under better conditions it will border on greatness.

I just finished watching Lost Boys: The Tribe which I have both been looking forward to and at the same time dreading. There is so much sacrilege of late with many franchises being brought back from the dead. Indiana Jones, Die Hard, Rambo, Robocop, Friday the 13th etc etc the list goes on and on. Most have been lacklustre compared to what we remember of them. Well I have both news good and bad. First the bad. Lost Boys 2 is of course not a patch on the original in both story, character and atmosphere (bring in Russ Abbott).

I just watched the War Games sequel that has just gone straight to DVD. Ive mixed feelings about this one. They almost won me over with a cheap shot - bringing back Dr. Stephen Faulken and Joshua - the bastards almost got me raving wow about this movie. In truth it's a far fetched, unbelievable pile of nonesense. For the first 40 minutes I was midly entertained but found myself constantly thinking 'BULLSHIT!' at every lame 'hack' that the main character Will Farmer pulled out the bag.