Robert Downey Jr will eventually hang up his Iron Man mask and thrusters and give up on the Marvel franchise. It is a sad fact but one that has been hinted at, skirted around and thankfully avoided for at least one … Continue reading Why Marvel should never recast their characters
A lot of people will argue that the Minions were the best aspect of both Despicable Me movies. They were definitely a highlight and their increased inclusion in the second movie helped but as you watch their solo-outing, … Continue reading Minions (2015) Review
San Andreas won’t be for everyone. There are people who will view this movie in the way it wasn’t intended. They will see the huge plot holes, the incredulous events, the ridiculous decisions and the often very cheesy moments and be … Continue reading San Andreas (2015) Review
It is amazing how one movie can make a character so iconic. Kathy Bates did such a good job of playing the creepy Annie Wilkes that it has transcended this movie and become a template for how to play a deranged … Continue reading Misery (1990) Review
Jurassic World has been the kind of critical and financial success that pushes studios towards making sequels. Unfortunately, Jurassic World doesn’t naturally lend itself to a sequel without losing the key ingredient that makes this and the very first movie … Continue reading Why you shouldn’t make a sequel to Jurassic World
There was a moment in the first act of Jurassic Park, as the cars leave the station and the characters are being shown the dinosaurs in their paddocks that everyone must have felt – “how cool would a dinosaur theme … Continue reading Jurassic World (2015) Review
Sometimes the simplest way to fix a creative issue is to strip it back to its purest parts. After the mess that was Jurassic Park: The Lost World – Director Joe Johnston brings Jurassic Park back to the elements that made … Continue reading Jurassic Park 3 (2001) Review
All the ingredients that made Jurassic Park such a successful movie are missing from The Lost World. The great cast, the brilliant set-up, the suspense-filled action sequences and the characters that helped bring together all the other elements. If it wasn’t … Continue reading Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997) Review
One word summarises the whole experience of watching Jurassic Park: Goosebumps! There are at least two moments when your arms will feel like they have felt a chill and that welcome tingle runs down the back of your neck. The moments … Continue reading Jurassic Park (1993) Review
The afternoon before I went to the cinema to watch the third instalment in the Insidious franchise, I heard a term that summarises the current crop of horror movies that are hitting our cinemas: Cattle-prod horror. It refers to the constant jump-scares that … Continue reading Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Review
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