Raiders of the Lost Ark (1999, VHS)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark was Steven Spielberg's homage to every Saturday matinee serial you have ever seen. It has action, adventure and Nazis (a common villain in the serials he was aping, mainly for the costumes and accents they offered.) It sees an intrepid archaeologist named Indiana Jones going on a fantastic adventure to discover the lost Ark Of The Covenant before the Nazis can find it and take over the world with the power of God. That one simple sentence is all that is needed to summarize the plot of Raiders Of The Lost Ark (maybe with one more sentence if I want to go from start to...

Fresh out of becoming a household name as Han Solo in Star Wars, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas cast Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. This was all despite the fact that everyone involved wanted Tom Selleck to take on the part of the hero. Jones is an archeologist who doesn't do everything necessarily by the book. He is a rough cut man, who knows that with every excavation and discovery that danger can lurk behind every corner, and he is ready for it. Rather than falling into the role of the normal book-smart archeologist, Jones instead has fun with everything he does, and puts himself into..

For my 100th film review on epinions I thought I d review a classic, and not only a classic but one I ve recently had the pleasure of seeing again at the cinema thanks to the Diet Coke Film Fest. (I won tickets and then had to drive back from Cornwall at 5:30am a 5-hour straight drive to get back to Birmingham so I could get to the showing I'd booked! (They were only showing it once and the holiday in Cornwall was rather unexpected ) It was voted as one of the nation's top ten favourite films though not all of the films that made it into the top ten were exactly classics I mean, "Love...

"Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American movies ever made!" -- Vincent Canby, The New York Times "If adventure has a name, it's Indiana Jones." -- tag line for Raiders of the Lost Ark In the early summer of 1977, while directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were vacationing in Hawaii shortly after Lucas's "little sci-fi movie" premiered, a beachside conversation turned to the topic of upcoming projects the two friends had on their agendas. Lucas was exhausted from the arduous making of Star Wars, and Spielberg was finishing post...