Success can breed familiarity and complacency so it wouldn’t surprise anyone if Marvel started to drop the ball on their Cinematic Universe but Black Panther seems to be showing that the studio has ambitions and plans beyond their universe-building event … Continue reading Black Panther (2018) Review
On release Resident Evil: the videogame, went on to become one of the most popular, biggest selling horror games of all time. A movie of that game, using that setting, plot and characters would seem like a no-brainer. Which is why … Continue reading Video-Game Movie Month: Resident Evil (2002) Review
Once Baby Driver starts, it is clear that this is a movie doing something different. The music is so intrinsic to the whole experience that this could have been a musical. This is none more telling than in the opening car … Continue reading Baby Driver (2017) Review
There is an impressive cast behind The Dinner that makes it intriguing from the outset. Richard Gere and Laura Linney would be enough to get anyone’s attention but add Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall and you start to imagine that there … Continue reading The Dinner (2017) Review
A movie about a girl who befriends a giant pig and then goes on a world-wide search to bring him home when he is “pig-napped: it is easy to imagine Okja as a childish, Disney-inspired movie but you would be … Continue reading Okja (2017) Review
A new month and a new Theme for the website. This month the reviews will mostly focus on video-game adaptations and movies linked with video-games. This means that you’ll see reviews for films like Super Mario Bros. The Movie, Angry Birds … Continue reading Video-Game Movies: The Launch!
The Oscars have been and gone but Ben and Dave still feel the need to dissect every (major) winner. As always they are here to discuss the big movies like Black Panther, Three Billboards and The Shape of Water while … Continue reading Views from the Sofa: The Podcast – Episode 5: The Award for Best Sofa Goes to…
There is an ingenious idea at the centre of Downsizing which could have easily carried the whole movie. The idea of shrinking people down to the size of 5 inches and have them live their lives in tiny houses, with tiny … Continue reading Downsizing (2017) Review
In a year for Marvel movies that saw both Spider-Man: Homecoming and the grand return of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor was going to have to do something different to be considered alongside these more popular heroes. Thor’s earlier movies … Continue reading Thor Ragnarok (2017) Review
When taking a show which is currently on the air and placing it in the cinemas as a movie, you better make sure that it delivers something movie-worthy. The opening of The Simpsons Movie highlighted this when Homer announces (albeit about … Continue reading South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) Review
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