Although the buddy cop film has been done so many times before that there is little to add to the genre, there is something about Rush Hour that makes it special. Even though it brings absolutely nothing new to the … Continue reading Rush Hour (1998) Review
Its impressive that Guillermo Del Toro creates a movie which has two plot threads that could easily hold an entire movie to themselves. It is even more impressive that neither of these plot threads buckle under the pressure of sharing … Continue reading Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Review
The best of M Night Shyamalan movies have “the hook:” the concept that gets you invested in the story and Old has that. The movie follows a small group of holiday makers, made-up of differing family dynamics, thrown together on … Continue reading Old (2021) Review
It is rare that you watch a movie where Tom Cruise is not likeable. Unfortunately for Jerry Maguire, where Tom Cruise plays the titular character, that is exactly the case. This would be fine if you slowly grow to like … Continue reading Jerry Maguire (1996) Review
There is a fresh inventiveness since Disney moved away from the “women as princesses” model of animation. Pixar aside, recent Disney movies have taken the traditional idea of a princess and turned them into heroes in their own right, often … Continue reading Encanto (2021) Review
Don’t Look Up is a movie about an asteroid which is hurtling towards Earth that will wipe humanity off the face of the planet… and it is scarily realistic. Not the asteroid part of course, although I’m sure there is … Continue reading Don’t Look Up (2021) Review
With Die Hard being such a perfect action movie it obviously had its imitators. This brought some decent rip-offs, like “Die Hard on a Plane” (Air Force One), some poorer movies like “Die Hard on a Ship” (Under Siege) and … Continue reading Cliffhanger (1993) Review
Shawshank Redemption has so many iconic moments within it that it is easy to forget how perfectly formed it is as a whole. From the very beginning of the movie you are drawn into the world of Shawshank prison and … Continue reading The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Review
There are so many aspects which make Gladiator the engaging, exciting epic that it is. For starters you have a compelling hero and a dastardly villain. Secondly is the the story, which plays deeper than a simple revenge tale. Lastly, … Continue reading Gladiator (2000) Review
It is easy to forget that John Travolta can sing and dance. Considering the films he chose for the latter years of his career, he seems to have left that side of his talents behind him but Saturday Night Fever … Continue reading Saturday Night Fever (1977) Review
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