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)
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! I remember when Heroes was must watch TV. Alongside Lost, 24 and Prison Break, … Continue reading Heroes (Season 1) TV Review
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
“1 Year Later” – 3 words that managed to ruin the Fantastic Four movie. Not that it was perfect up to that point but it certainly wasn’t the terrible, dull and very generic mess that it became after those three words … Continue reading Fantastic Four (2015) Review
It’s a bold move to heavily advertise the biggest stunt of the movie and the probably the most exciting moment and then use it within the first ten minutes of the film. It means one of two things: either the rest … Continue reading Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) Review
At a time when the fourth movie in a franchise is either the reboot of the series or a luckless, last-ditch attempt to flog a dead horse, the Mission Impossible franchise was actually finding it’s feet. The first film was a … Continue reading Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011) Re-View
If Mission Impossible was a focused spy thriller and Mission Impossible 2 was a mind-less, popcorn action movie then Mission Impossible 3 sits comfortably in the middle. It takes the more spy focused, thriller style from the first movie and mixes … Continue reading Mission: Impossible 3 (2006) Review
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