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
Some films perfectly deliver what they promise. If you are going to Mad Max: Fury Road looking for high drama or a deep, emotional tale which will make you contemplate, life, love and your general outlook on existence then you are … Continue reading Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Review
Of many current actors, Leonardo DiCaprio has made the best career choices. Even credible film stars like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have their stinkers, making you wonder what they were thinking as they signed on the dotted line, but … Continue reading The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Review
Unfriended shouldn’t work! For long chunks of the movie you are watching two people type their conversation to each other. The whole movie is literally watched as if you are sitting in front of a laptop screen, witnessing events, and subsequently … Continue reading Unfriended (2015) Review
Living the events of the past through the eyes of another individual, especially a life that spans many key, historical events, is a great way to present a movie differently. Forrest Gump did it very well, covering the Vietnam War, the … Continue reading The Butler (2013) Review
When I wrote a preview post of all the new spy movies currently being developed and due for release this year, I completely forgot about British spy thriller Spooks. This is even more surprising considering I’m a huge fan of the … Continue reading Spooks: The Greater Good (2015) Review
What surprises me about Dr No is how many of the classic Bond staples were already in place by the end of the first movie in the franchise. The gun-barrel opening, the excellent, timeless theme and those famous words “Bond, James Bond.” An excellent … Continue reading Dr No (1962) Review
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