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
I review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! Peep Show is a completely underrated sitcom. Whenever British channels make lists of “Greatest Ever Sitcom” … Continue reading Peep Show (Season 9) TV 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
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 review a whole season rather than individual episodes, so there is a chance of spoilers. If you haven’t watched the whole season yet, stop reading now! Trollied was in desperate need of a creative injection. The fourth season floundered and it struggled … Continue reading Trollied (Season 5) TV Review
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
Some historic events will always be controversial or difficult to use as source material for a film. “The Troubles” that involved Ireland, The British Army and IRA is still recent history and for some is a conflict which is still continuing. … Continue reading ’71 (2014) Review
The Iron Giant is not a bad film, it just isn’t a particularly original one either. The central story of the film has been done so many times before that it is difficult to find anything that is new or exciting … Continue reading The Iron Giant (1999) Review
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