It’s amazing how a movie can surprise you because you make an assumption based on its key ingredients. The movie is advertised and heavily promoted as a movie about male stripping. It attracts even more people because the star is Channing … Continue reading Magic Mike (2012) Review
Sometimes you can get caught up in the spectacle, excitement and novelty of a movie. It felt like I was always going to like a Tintin movie the first time I saw it because I grew up reading the books. … Continue reading The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011) Re-View
There is only one, key, core ingredient to a Die Hard film. Only one thing a Die Hard film needs to be a Die Hard film and it’s not violence, action, small, claustrophobic setting or even the words “Yippee-Ki-Yay.” It’s the … Continue reading A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) Review
Anything associated with innocence and childhood, swearing, acting immature and crude and generally doing things considered “adult,” will be appealing. It’s the idea that we are seeing something associated with the mainstream and acceptable, doing something considered taboo. It’s the same reason … Continue reading Ted (2012) Review
One of the rare, positive things about a film genre being so steeped in cliché and the usual plots and character types is that it makes a huge impact when you change it, even slightly. The changes make a huge … Continue reading Cabin in the Woods (2011) Review
When any film takes a tired, over-populated genre and does something different with it, it will always get some sort of praise from me. There have been some different takes on the found footage genre but generally its reserved for horror … Continue reading Project X (2012) Review
I don’t think films by Wes Anderson are for me. They have an arty, quirky and unusual style to them that I can’t quite get behind. I remember watching The Royal Tenenbaums when I was a bit younger and not … Continue reading Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Review
The Blair Witch Project is still the best Found Footage movie. It’s not just because its one of the first but because now we have had a deluge of imitators, the purity and simplicity of the movie is really refreshing. It doesn’t have a … Continue reading Apollo 18 (2011) Review
Don’t watch television shows you loved as a kid. As a general rule, they will almost always disappoint. A television station in the UK recently celebrated thirty years of its children’s television and replayed some of the classic shows I watched … Continue reading The Muppets (2011) Review
Sometimes your view of a film can be skewed because of you high expectations, seeing it at the cinema and being caught up in the atmosphere or because everything you are seeing is new and amazing. That is why it’s … Continue reading The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Re-View
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