There aren’t many franchises delivering what Mission Impossible does with each (recent) instalment; a clever, action-packed blockbuster movie. Where most franchises start to get tired after 4 or 5, Mission Impossible seems to carry on with little regard for what is … Continue reading Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) Review
This month we review a selection of movies from Empire’s 100 Greatest Movies list. Today is Number 100: Stand By Me. There is something amazingly familiar about Stand By Me. It is a movie that manages to capture almost everyone’s childhood … Continue reading 100 Greatest Movies Month: Stand By Me (1986) Review
As long as you like musicals, you’ll love The Greatest Showman. As long as you are well aware that you are going to see a movie where each scene is a link to another epic musical number which will involve dancing, … Continue reading Review 700! – The Greatest Showman (2017)
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 person’s film or television career and … Continue reading Dwayne Johnson Month – What is their Career Peak? – Dwayne Johnson
Skyscraper leaves me conflicted. On one hand it is a terrible movie, with under-developed characters, absurd moments, ridiculous plot-points and a concept which is as bizarre as it is silly. On the other hand, it is brilliant and if you buy … Continue reading Dwayne Johnson Month: Skyscraper (2018) Review
It is an old cliche and one that is often used to excuse “bad movies” (*cough* Michael Bay *cough*) but if all you want is a “popcorn movie flick” then Rampage is the perfect choice. It delivers exactly what it says … Continue reading Dwayne Johnson Month: Rampage (2018) Review
There is an appropriate hesitation that should be reserved for rebooting or prolonged sequels to sacred classics. For every Blade Runner you get an Indiana Jones and when it was announced that there would be a “sequel” to Jumanji, scepticism was the … Continue reading Dwayne Johnson Month: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Review
Sometimes the label “based on a true story” can help give a movie it’s sense of realism, it’s sense of drama and make the experience much more engrossing as you realise that people had to live through the events of … Continue reading Dwayne Johnson Month: Pain & Gain (2013) Review
Snitch begins by making it clear it is a true story and because you know this, what follows is a tense and edge-of-your-seat thriller. Knowing that what occurs is based on true events makes them feel more high-stakes and it helps … Continue reading Dwayne Johnson Month: Snitch (2013) Review
Views from the Sofa has been going for six years and is now halfway through it’s seventh. That means that usually I will hit a milestone review during the year and for the first 6 I used a clear theme: Batman. … Continue reading The search for Review 700!
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