By the end of Dead Man’s Chest, there were at least six principle characters, each with different agendas and motivations, all butting heads with each other. What Dead Man’s Chest had done was to create a complex multi-faceted story which was … Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) Review
The first Pirates of the Caribbean was so much fun that a sequel felt inevitable. Like any sequel worth it’s (sea)salt, it develops the action, adds to the storylines and tries to outdo what has successfully gone before. Dead Man’s Chest … Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) Review
IT will shock from the opening scene. This is a film where a group of kids fight a killer, child-eating clown and it is exactly that child-eating aspect which comes to the forefront in the opening moments. Bloody, graphic and unnerving, … Continue reading IT (2017) Review
What clearly happened when they cast the Hitman’s Bodyguard is that they asked Ryan Reynolds to play Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson to play Samuel L Jackson. Luckily, this is exactly what this film needs. It isn’t taking itself too … Continue reading The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) Review
The last few years has seen an increase in “gimmick horror.” Horror movies that rely on one key plot point to ramp up the terror. It asks the audience what they would do if they couldn’t see or hear or other … Continue reading Don’t Breathe (2016) Review
Power Rangers as never going to really work. The original is a colourful, camp, silly show with super-annoying teenagers who all get on, have incredible hair and teeth and use massive robots to fight dodgy looking monsters. It is a product … Continue reading Power Rangers (2017) Review
It has been said many times before that the perfect version of Spider-Man has finally arrived on-screen. Toby Maguire’s version was good and as the first real attempt at a big screen Spider-Man did exactly what it needed to without really … Continue reading Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) Review
Revisiting a movie for a sequel twenty years after the original doesn’t seem like a very good idea. It seems like a poor excuse for a cash-grab or worse, a lack of creativity. This would seem to be more of the … Continue reading T2 Trainspotting (2017) Review
Only two films have managed to make me even a little bit interested in ballet. The first was Billy Elliott and the second is Black Swan. Black Swan is more impressive because it is actually about ballet and has plenty of … Continue reading Black Swan (2010) Review
Another Earth feels like the beginning of a great movie. It has a high concept, a very cool idea and a great cast to pull this off but then it takes some strange decisions with the story which make it much … Continue reading Another Earth (1011) Review
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