About Allan Ogg

There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings but there are some who notice their existence and some who are willing to open the door and try to gain the power of darkness. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal, known as the Forest of Resurrection. It was a long time ago when the evil soul uncovered its existence and sought to cl...

Over 1,000 years ago, the powerful mages of Turan defied Falazure, the Dragon God of Decay and Undeath, and brought death and destruction to the land. After a great battle the mages finally defeated Falazure and imprisoned him in Hearth Mountain and they also sealed his powers in a black orb and then hid that in suspended animation to hold the dragon there forever...

Mapcap inventor and well-known cheese addict Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his trusty hound Gromit run a fairly lucrative humane pest-control business called Anti-Pesto. With only a few days to go until the Annual Giant Vegetable Competition, they're up to their ears in work and rabbits...

Adapted from the book by Chris Van Allsburg (Jumanji, The Polar Express), the story is about two young boys, Danny (Jonah Bobo) and his older brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson). When Danny finds an old board game called Zathura: A Space Adventure in the basement, they find themselves fighting for survival in a world of space-ships, aliens, meteors and crazy robots.

The excellent Family Guy, the cult animated TV show, gets it's first movie outing in a feature length tale about Stewie, the megalomaniacal and matricidal baby genius of the family. When Stewie has a near-death experience, while trying to off a rival at the local swimming pool, his plans for world domination and killing Lois are set aside and he embarks on a new life dedicated to doing go....

When the wealthy Baudelaire's die in a mysterious fire that consumed their home, their three children Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken) and Sunny are left in the hands of the family lawyer Mr. Poe (Timothy Spall). The eldest child Violet is their brave and inventive leader and Klaus, the....

This is volume one in the history of Black Sabbath, possibly one of the biggest heavy rock bands ever. Covering the bands first eight years from 1970 to 1978, with the original line up of Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward, it includes material from nine albums, with a mix of interviews, videos, and live performances. The main feature is composed of a....

This classic piece of anime from the creators of "Ghost In The Shell" and winner of the "Best Theatrical Feature Film" at the 2001 World Animation Celebration, is set in Japan at the start of the Vietnam War. Most of the action takes place on the busy US operated Yokota Air Force Base, which is obviously part of the front line air support for the war.

However, all is not...

It's eighteenth century France during the reign of King Louis XV and a mysterious beast, much larger than a wolf, has begun attacking and killing the local peasantry. While the death toll steadily rises and all efforts to hunt down the beast have come to nothing, the King sends in the knight, Grégoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) an explorer and naturalist who, along with....

Chris Vaughn (The Rock), a U.S. Special Forces veteran, returns to his hometown on the North-West coast to start a new life for himself but finds the main employer, the lumber mill, has closed and the town is rife with corruption, prostitution and drug-taking. He soon discovers that his old high-school rival Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough) is behind the town's fall from....

This is the first instalment from Season 1 of Stargate Atlantis, a spin-off from phenomenally successful, award-winning TV series Stargate SG-1, itself a spin-off from the 1994 sci-fi blockbuster movie, Stargate. Chronologically, Atlantis runs parallel to Season 8 of Stargate SG-1 and goes something like this… When, at the end of Season 7, SG-1 discovered an...

The Chronicles of Riddick continues the story of Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel), a character who first came to our notice in the unexpectedly successful science fiction hit Pitch Black. This tale takes place roughly five years after the events of that movie......

This is a double feature of films from the 1930s featuring Will Hay in light-hearted family comedies of early British cinema…

Allan Ogg takes a look at the DVD release of 51st State starring Samuel L Jackson and Robert Carlyle. He finds an enjoyable enough film but also a comedy that is very lacking in laughs.

Allan Ogg reviews the Special Extended Edition of Alien v's Predator on DVD and finds that despite the critical slamming it received, AvP is a reasonable piece of sci-fi popcorn entertainment.

Allan Ogg looks at the DVD release of 80's animation Amon Saga and finds a watchable DVD with undeveloped portions that could have been expanded on a little. One for serious anime fans only.

This is the fifth and final season of Angel, a spin-off series from the hugely successful Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Angel (David Boreanaz) is a vampire, but with a difference - he has a soul. After causing terror for over 150 years, he's cursed by a gypsy whose spell gives him back his soul and with it the intense feeling of remorse for his past evils.

When paleoclimatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) and his team experience the unexpected creation of a gigantic crevasse on an Arctic ice shelf, he tries to convince the world that the continuing escalation in global warming effects will spell disaster for everyone unless something is done before it is too late.

The story, loosely based on the comic book of the same name, begins in 1943 in the Temple of Sublime Truth high in Tibet and a Buddhist monk, charged with protecting an ancient magical scroll that has the ability to endow whoever reads it with the power to control the world. Mankind is not yet ready for such pow.....

The Bourne Identity is loosely based on the best-selling book of the same name by Robert Ludlum. It tells the story of Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), a young man pulled from the Mediterranean Sea one stormy night, by a passing Italian fishing boat, 60 miles south of Marseilles......