The second movie in the Mission: Impossible franchise couldn’t feel more different to it’s predecessor. The first was a focused, intelligent spy thriller with a plot that kept you guessing and action scenes that worked for the story and … Continue reading Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Review
It is amazing how different the original Mission: Impossible movie is to the summer blockbuster movies that the franchise offers today. Mission: Impossible is actually a taut, slightly complicated and quite low-key spy thriller and about as far-removed from the outlandish, … Continue reading Mission: Impossible (1996) Review
There is no other studio that seems to have the creativity and imagination that Pixar does. What makes this creativity and imagination more incredible is that the ideas are so simple. Toys coming to life after you’ve left the room, the … Continue reading Inside Out (2015) Review
There is nothing exciting about watching an underwater scuffle between divers. Maybe when technology was only just advanced enough for this to happen or when this was something that hadn’t been on the screen before but not today. It is a … Continue reading Thunderball (1965) Review
There is a reason that Goldfinger is so fondly remembered; it is the epitome of a Bond movie. Goldfinger is the blueprint that many other Bond movie will follow and rightly so. It has all the key ingredients that From Russia … Continue reading Goldfinger (1964) Review
Ant-Man is the perfect example of how successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe is. It shouldn’t work. Describe the superhero and his “powers” to someone unaware and unfamiliar with the Marvel Universe and Ant-Man himself and they won’t take the idea seriously. … Continue reading Ant-Man (2015) Review
They don’t make movies like Robocop anymore. They tried and failed to capture the classic, original magic of the 1987 film and after watching the debut of Robocop, you can see why. Robocop is an ultra-violent satire of the crime-ridden, commercially … Continue reading Robocop (1987) Review
Considering how much of the classic Bond formula is established in Dr No, From Russia with Love feels incomplete. It misses some of the classic Bond material that has made it such a long-lasting force and because of that, I couldn’t … Continue reading From Russia with Love (1963) Review
I have an issue with Amy Winehouse having her own documentary. I just don’t understand how she has earned the right to have her life become the subject of a big screen movie when so many other artists and individuals have … Continue reading Amy (2015) Review
If you are going to deliver a sequel to a movie, 14 years after the best and most influential film in the franchise, ensure you make it different. Terminator Genisys isn’t a remake or really a reboot, instead it is a … Continue reading Terminator Genisys (2015) Review
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