Captain America is a boring superhero. It’s nobody’s fault really, unfortunately it’s within the design of the character himself. Batman has the history and trauma (not to mention the villains), Superman has the powers, Iron Man has Tony Stark (or more … Continue reading Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Review
Life is Beautiful is the best film about the Holocaust because it doesn’t show the atrocities so openly and graphically. In fact for the whole first half of the movie, you wouldn’t even know it’s about the Holocaust. It is such a sweet, … Continue reading Life is Beautiful (1997) Review
I don’t really remember the original Robocop. I usually like to watch the original of any reboot/remake before I see the new version but I didn’t get the chance to do that with the new version of Robocop. It means I … Continue reading Robocop (2014) Review
I really wanted to like After Earth. I feel like the two people involved, Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan were due a win. It has been a while since Will Smith has really demonstrated his skill as either a decent … Continue reading After Earth (2013) Review
The problem with a genre as over-exposed and over-used as zombies is that you are forced to find something new to stand-out from the crowd. Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland managed it very well, simply adding comedy to highlight the clichés and … Continue reading World War Z (2013) Review
Afternoon all! I tried to “relaunch” the blog at the beginning of the year but couldn’t find the time to regularly post (or post at all!). I’m going to now try earnestly to post regularly, mostly reviews of movies and TV … Continue reading Views from the Sofa – The Relaunch!
What if Sam Raimi hadn’t made his Spiderman trilogy? Would people treat Marc Webb’s reboot with the disdain and disregard? People were too quick to dismiss the movie because it was so soon after Raini’s disastrous Spiderman 3 but what did people expect? Imagine … Continue reading The Amazing Spiderman (2012) Re-View
Some ideas are probably too brilliant to ever feel their true potential on-screen. They can be so good that when you try to tell some sort of story with that idea as the central basis, you find that it never … Continue reading The Purge (2013) Review
There is a formula to the classic, “magical” Disney films. It can be boiled down to the story, the characters and the songs. Every classic Disney film, every Disney film that is a favourite from childhood and makes people’s “top ten” … Continue reading The Little Mermaid (1989) Review
Views from the Sofa is back. After far too long trying something else movie related, I’ve decided to give my viewing and reviewing of tv shows and films another go. It will be less frequent than it was the first … Continue reading Views from the Sofa is back!
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