Life is Beautiful is the best film about the Holocaust because it doesn’t show the atrocities so openly and graphically. In fact for the whole first half of the movie, you wouldn’t even know it’s about the Holocaust. It is such a sweet, … Continue reading Life is Beautiful (1997) Review
I don’t really remember the original Robocop. I usually like to watch the original of any reboot/remake before I see the new version but I didn’t get the chance to do that with the new version of Robocop. It means I … Continue reading Robocop (2014) Review
The problem with a genre as over-exposed and over-used as zombies is that you are forced to find something new to stand-out from the crowd. Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland managed it very well, simply adding comedy to highlight the clichés and … Continue reading World War Z (2013) Review
What if Sam Raimi hadn’t made his Spiderman trilogy? Would people treat Marc Webb’s reboot with the disdain and disregard? People were too quick to dismiss the movie because it was so soon after Raini’s disastrous Spiderman 3 but what did people expect? Imagine … Continue reading The Amazing Spiderman (2012) Re-View
Some ideas are probably too brilliant to ever feel their true potential on-screen. They can be so good that when you try to tell some sort of story with that idea as the central basis, you find that it never … Continue reading The Purge (2013) Review
There is a formula to the classic, “magical” Disney films. It can be boiled down to the story, the characters and the songs. Every classic Disney film, every Disney film that is a favourite from childhood and makes people’s “top ten” … Continue reading The Little Mermaid (1989) Review
Views from the Sofa is back. After far too long trying something else movie related, I’ve decided to give my viewing and reviewing of tv shows and films another go. It will be less frequent than it was the first … Continue reading Views from the Sofa is back!
I’m giving myself a break from blogging for a while. I really enjoy writing movie reviews, sharing my views on tv and movies but I can’t keep up or dedicate the time that the best people who blog on here … Continue reading Views from the Sofa is taking a break…
Career Peak – The point in an actor, actress or director’s career when they have given their best performance, reaching a point they will probably never match again! The idea is to examine a persons film or television career and … Continue reading When was their Career Peak? – Ben Affleck
Britain have begun to specialise in a specific genre of movies – Gangster. There are variations within that genre, either following the Cockney, East-End gangsters that Guy Richie specialised in or the “hoody” inner-city youth gangsters that films like Kidulthood or … Continue reading Ill Manors (2012) Review
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