Stale Popcorn

News has recently broken online, without full details yet known so I’m sure we’ll here more about this in the coming days, that Corey Haim, the 1980’s child star who lost his way a little in the 1990’s, has died in Los Angeles aged 38. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, a trailer for Tron Legacy arrived online, courtesy of someone who captured it on a mobile phone when they went to see Alice In Wonderland, but I decided to wait until the studio released a proper version until I would share it with you all. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait long, as the official version is now available online!
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So the ceremonies are over and the winners have been announced and celebrated. But just how did the Oscars get handed out last night? (and how did I do with my predictions?) Read on to find out: Read the rest of this entry »

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The second trailer for Iron Man 2 has appeared online and it’s more awesome than the most awesome thing in the world dipped in awesome sauce. Read the rest of this entry »

If you grew up in the 1980’s then you will probably remember shows like Knight Rider, The Dukes Of Hazzard and The A-Team but do you remember the shortlived Street Hawk? It was all about a Police motorcyclist who got injured and relegated to a desk, but he had also been picked to be the rider of a secret project, code name “Street Hawk”, for a super sophisticated motorbike patrolling the streets of LA.

It unfortunately only lasted for 13 episodes but I loved every second of it, and was overjoyed when I heard the news that all 13 episodes were going to be released on Region 2 DVD on the 22nd of March – the first time it has ever been on DVD anywhere in the world!

And to celebrate this momentous occasion I have been given 3 copies of the boxset to offer as prizes for you lucky readers. Read the rest of this entry »

To celebrate the Region 2 DVD release of It’s Gary Shandling’s Show on the 22nd of March I have been given three copies to offer as prizes to my lovely readers.

To enter, simply answer the question, before the closing date of the 1st of March, using the form below and keep your fingers crossed! Read the rest of this entry »

To celebrate the release of the first season of Saved By The Bell, which is a show I can remember watching when I was much younger, on the 22nd of March 2010 on Region 2 DVD  I have been given three copies of the boxset to offer as prizes to you lucky, lucky people.

Here, just in case you can’t remember it, is a little information about the show: Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever watched a movie that is so over the top, out of this world crazy that you just don’t know if it’s any damn good or not? Well, not until watching this movie have I really had that happen to me. Usually, no matter how strange a movie is, I know if I’ve enjoyed it or not. Unfortunately, this time around I was left scratching my head after I’d finished watching it and it wasn’t until a couple of days later that I could really get around my head what it was I’d seen. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s very nearly time for the Academy Awards to be handed out to the lucky winners of the Oscars 2010. The ceremony takes place on Sunday March 7th 5PM PT/8PM ET (or 1am on the 8th if you live in the UK) so I thought I’d try and have a little go at predicting where the Oscars are going to land, so follow the jump to see my guesses.

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Paranormal Activity, one of the surprise smash hits of 2009, is out to own on DVD & Blu-Ray on the 22nd of March and I’m happy to tell you that the Region 2 UK release will have some Special Features that will not be on any other release. Read the rest of this entry »

I really like the CSI TV series. Well, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York, anyway, as I’m not so fussed on CSI: Miami, so I’m happy to tell you that CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 9 is being released on DVD & Blu-Ray in the UK on the 1st of March, and as I was sent these features on the program I thought I’d share them with you all (note: I didn’t write these): Read the rest of this entry »

Released tomorrow on the 1st of March is Miss March, a comedy movie about Eugene Bell, played by Zach Cregger, who awakens from a four year coma to discover that the girl he was going to take to the prom on the night he got put into the coma has become a naked centre-fold in a certain well known “mens magazine”. Read the rest of this entry »

And we’re back, up and running, and with an all new look!

I was working on this when it all went a bit pear shaped, but maybe it’s worked in my favour as I had to actually get on with it and finish the theme off – so here we are, with a new look.

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As you can see, Stale Popcorn is back up after a couple of hours of being offline and looks….a little different.

Unfortunately, I had a problem with the latest update of Wordpress, and have only just managed to get the site back online, without losing any content thankfully!

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Living in the UK I haven’t had much experience with gangs. That’s not to say that they’re not a problem over here, I’ve just been lucky enough to live (for the most part) in areas of the country that are not afflicted with gang related problems. But, for some reason, its a subject that I find fascinating! So I was quite happy when the complete season 1 & 2 boxset of the History Channels Gangland arrived on my doormat – especially as I’d seen a couple of the episodes before & knew they were very well made. But how would I find an entire series? Would it be able to sustain interest throughout? Read the rest of this entry »

I remember when, only a couple of years ago, Tony Jaa exploded onto the martial arts movie scene with Ong Bak – the big selling point of which was that it was “real” – no CG, no wires, just spectacular martial arts performed by Jaa & the rest of the cast. Such feats that, to us mere mortals seemed superhuman. And I loved it!

So hearing that Jaa was returning to make Ong Bak 2 after he made The Warrior King to say I was interested would be an understatement. But now I’ve watched it, I’m really not sure if it’s a good movie or not! Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things that I am utterly fascinated by is history. I love watching documentaries about the past and where we have come from, as it gives us a wonderful insight into what the world was like, what it has become and where we have come from. Read the rest of this entry »

I know I don’t usually post about DVD releases, but this just hit my inbox and I thought I’d share it with you as I’ve got a trailer too.

On Monday the recent family movie Aliens In The Attic is released on Region 2 DVD & Blu-Ray. Here’s the official synopsis: Read the rest of this entry »

Last year, my wife & I took our daughters to the cinema to see G-Force in 3D and, during the trailers, we saw one for Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, which they absolutely loved the look of. Unfortunately, we never got the chance to take them to see it in the cinema. So how popular was I when the Blu-Ray landed on my doormat for me to review? Very!

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So now here’s me [finally] throwing out my thoughts on what I consider to be the twenty five BEST films of the year! The first time I ran this series, I came in for quite a bit of criticism when I published my list because I incorporated the review screeners I’d been sent into my list and people didn’t consider that fair. Many thought that seeing as we had the US represented in the form of Kristina then I should be representing the UK – namely I should not be paying tribute to films that had not had a big screen release between the given dates, on British soil. The following year I changed the list to represent those released singularly between January and December of 2008 in the United Kingdom.

This year I’m going to have to re-break that rule, I’m afraid, because the best film of 2009 is a film I experienced through a much-sought after screener because it was having trouble (and still having trouble) securing a release over here. And no matter how much I tried and tried to write up this list, I just couldn’t do it without this film on it and where it deserves to be! Read the rest of this entry »