Maze Runner was a pleasant surprise from last year, managing to offer something slightly different in the Young Adult genre with a thrilling, original take on the dystopia theme we’ve already seen with The Hunger Games and The Divergent series. Luckily, The Scorch Trials … Continue reading Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) Review
You’d never guess that Jesse Eisenberg could be an effective action hero but the moment he begins to dispatch enemies, you won’t help but smile. It is actually quite impressive how Eisenberg convincingly takes out faceless henchman after faceless henchman. It … Continue reading American Ultra (2015) Review
One of the hardest things to capture in any film about teenagers and high school is realistic characters. It is very easy to fall into the trap of having teenagers fit into prescribed groups, the usual clichés like Geek, Goth, Jock … Continue reading Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Review
Recently Disney announced another live-action remake to add to their already quite substantial list. The newest was The Sword in the Stone and unless I’ve missed a few, this brings the ever-increasing list to 5. I have already written about how … Continue reading Movies Disney should make instead of their planned remakes!
You can’t ever say that Disney aren’t ambitious. Or that Disney doesn’t have the imagination and creative drive to build and develop new worlds and amazing ideas. In fact, this is the central key theme to all of Tomorrowland and when … Continue reading Tomorrowland (2015) Review
Fargo falls into the same traps that a few of the Coen Brothers movies do – it feels incomplete. From Burn After Reading to No Country for Old Men, I always feel like there should be more. The story that is … Continue reading Fargo (1996) Review
I have mentioned before that I’m not a fan of Wes Anderson as a director. I just don’t get the appeal of his style. The long cuts, the holding scenes on one location and the over-detailing of aspects like symmetry do … Continue reading The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Review
I’m not sure you could get away with the central premise of You Only Live Twice today. It isn’t the death of Bond so he can go undercover or even the heavily stereotyped Japanese characters which I will get to in … Continue reading You Only Live Twice (1967)
This review was originally part of the August Blogathon hosted by Rob and Ryan of movierob.wordpress.com and tenstarsorless.com. A Man for all Seasons showcases how great British history is. The fact that the King wanting a divorce would cause … Continue reading A Man for all Seasons (1966) Review
In the UK we have two music channels that dedicate an hour or so a day to “non-stop Movie Classics” (or something similar.) I catch this occasionally when I’m channel hopping and the same selection of songs are being played. … Continue reading What happened to proper Movie Songs
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