It is a long standing complaint but trailers are giving too much of the movies away. Watch any of the recent trailers for the upcoming summer blockbusters and you feel like you’ve seen most of the movie, or at least the … Continue reading What if… Trailers could only use the first thirty minutes of the movie?
It is amazing how Room manages to tell a story involving some very nasty, mature and disturbing content without ever feeling too graphic. The film doesn’t feel the need to throw all the more gruesome aspects of the tale in your … Continue reading Room (2016) Review
Occasionally there will be a film which I don’t understand. That lack of understanding could be the story, the characters, the idea or even the fuss behind the whole movie. In the case of Birdman, it was pretty much the whole … Continue reading Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Review
Joy is the movie in which Jennifer Lawrence shows the world how good an actress she is. Not that she hasn’t already proved that: She held a whole franchise together successfully in The Hunger Games series and of course won the … Continue reading Joy (2016) Review
Career Peak – The point in an actor, actress or director’s career when they have given their best performance, reaching a point they will probably never match again! The idea is to examine a person’s film or television career and … Continue reading When was their Career Peak? – Sylvester Stallone
The biggest compliment I can give Creed is that it is a worthy successor to the Rocky crown. The worst thing Creed could have been was a Rocky movie with a young boxer thrown in as a background story. Luckily, Creed … Continue reading Creed (2016) Review
I’m a huge fan of both Netflix and Cineworld. Netflix is a great service for old tv shows and original content. Cineworld makes going to the cinema both easy and affordable with their Unlimited Card. I even get to see a … Continue reading How Netflix and Cineworld annoyed me in one night!
Today is the fourth anniversary of Views of the Sofa. To commemorate the birthday of the blog, I take a look back at the previous year in film with my Views from the Sofa Awards. These awards are slightly different … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards 2016
In my review for The Purge, I stated that the idea behind the movie had potential if taken in the right direction. Anarchy takes the movie in that direction. The idea of The Purge, one lawless night when all crime is … Continue reading The Purge: Anarchy (2014) Review
Yesterday I started my list of 2016’s Must-See Movies. These are the films that have me excited, interested or invested enough to definitely see at the cinema. There are 16 in total and Part 1 was concerned primarily with the (super)heroes. … Continue reading 2016’s Must See Movies (Part 2)
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