Views from the Sofa is 6 Years Old today! As has become tradition, we always use our birthday to look back at the past year and give some awards based on the movies we have watched this year. These awards are … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards 2018
2018 has started but the first theme of the new year is a simple one: Watching the ten best films of 2017! I missed a lot of movies that were released last year and want to make up for that … Continue reading Best of 2017: The Launch! (and I need your help!)
Happy New Year! Here at Views from the Sofa we always start the New Year with resolutions and aims. This year we are doing things slightly differently. Rather than resolutions (which can and will be broken) this year Views from the … Continue reading Views from the Sofa 2018: The Launch!
There is a great story somewhere in High Rise. The idea of huge skyscraper style apartment blocks, with the richest living at the top and the poorest at the bottom has all sorts of great potential for social commentary. Add to … Continue reading High-Rise (2015) Review
The best sports movies make you care about the character, and even the sport, regardless of whether you are familiar with it or not. The debate over whether American Wrestling is a sport is one for another time but it works … Continue reading The Wrestler (2008) Review
The most important aspect of any movie franchise is to not lose sight of what makes the series so successful. In the case of Pirates of the Caribbean, it is clearly the character of Jack Sparrow which is brought back to … Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Review
By the end of Dead Man’s Chest, there were at least six principle characters, each with different agendas and motivations, all butting heads with each other. What Dead Man’s Chest had done was to create a complex multi-faceted story which was … Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) Review
The first Pirates of the Caribbean was so much fun that a sequel felt inevitable. Like any sequel worth it’s (sea)salt, it develops the action, adds to the storylines and tries to outdo what has successfully gone before. Dead Man’s Chest … Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) Review
IT will shock from the opening scene. This is a film where a group of kids fight a killer, child-eating clown and it is exactly that child-eating aspect which comes to the forefront in the opening moments. Bloody, graphic and unnerving, … Continue reading IT (2017) Review
What clearly happened when they cast the Hitman’s Bodyguard is that they asked Ryan Reynolds to play Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson to play Samuel L Jackson. Luckily, this is exactly what this film needs. It isn’t taking itself too … Continue reading The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017) Review
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