Revisiting a movie for a sequel twenty years after the original doesn’t seem like a very good idea. It seems like a poor excuse for a cash-grab or worse, a lack of creativity. This would seem to be more of the … Continue reading T2 Trainspotting (2017) Review
Only two films have managed to make me even a little bit interested in ballet. The first was Billy Elliott and the second is Black Swan. Black Swan is more impressive because it is actually about ballet and has plenty of … Continue reading Black Swan (2010) Review
Another Earth feels like the beginning of a great movie. It has a high concept, a very cool idea and a great cast to pull this off but then it takes some strange decisions with the story which make it much … Continue reading Another Earth (1011) Review
How much you appreciate the movie instalment of the popular 90s TV show will entirely depend on whether you were a fan or not. Nostalgia can hide many faults and it does exactly that here; capturing a moment in many people’s … Continue reading Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) Review
For many, John Hughes is their childhood. Be it by capturing their own experiences of teenage years in America or just by being the movies people grew up watching. However, as a British viewer, Hughes movies and his take on high … Continue reading Sixteen Candles (1984) Review
A political thriller starring George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman should be the stuff of dreams but something holds this movie back. It is a very competent film and at no points is it ever bad or boring. It … Continue reading The Ides of March (2011) Review
For many, Beauty and the Beast is Disney’s ultimate masterpiece. Holding accolades such as Oscar recognition before a best animated picture category, it has been heralded as the pinnacle of feature length animation. To many, a remake would be considered … Continue reading Beauty and the Beast (2017) Review
As you watch the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy, you’ll get the impression that writer and director James Gunn wanted this movie to be about family. That is because it isn’t subtly hinted at but thrown into your face at … Continue reading Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review
A Monster Calls seems to be a movie that would work very well as a novel but lose some of it’s impact on the way to the big screen. In same cases, this seems to be the issue but in a … Continue reading A Monster Calls (2016) Review
M Night Shyamalan has a talent for bringing a different type of performance from well-known, sometimes arguably type-cast stars. The Sixth Sense gave a different side to Bruce Willis while Unbreakable reminded people that Samuel L Jackson could actually act. In … Continue reading Signs (2002) Review
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