When they re-launched, rebooted and rebranded Lara Croft as a younger, inexperienced and grittier character, they also opened the door for a more cinematic Tomb Raider. This meant that just watching the trailer for the video-game was enough to make you … Continue reading Video-Game Movies Month: Tomb Raider (2018) Review
You have to give the first big screen outing of Tomb Raider credit: at least the casting was spot-on. Although a polygon woman hardly pointed studios in the direction of a real-life actress, casting Angelina Jolie was a savvy move and … Continue reading Video-Game Month: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Review
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 What was their Career Peak? – Angelina Jolie
Found Footage is ruining potentially excellent movies. I understand the need for it sometimes; budget, intensity, extra-scares but it is such an over-used device that it is losing any unique element and also detracting from what a movie is trying to … Continue reading As Above, So Below (2014) Review
The videogame industry now rivals the film industry for it’s quality of creative output and the money that the industry makes. Grand Theft Auto alone made over a billion dollars in record time, rivalling studio movies like Jurassic World or The Avengers. It … Continue reading Why videogame movies will never work
We need a female action star. Not necessarily the actress but a new, kick-ass female action character. Someone to carry a series of films that have the same excitement around them as Bond and Bourne. The closest we have so far is Milla Jovovich’s Alice from the Resident Evil series and I avoid those films like the plague after they took a clear, amazing game and film concept and ruined it beyond belief. Angelina Jolie has had a go at this before with Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider movies. They weren’t bad but they fall into the same pit as the Resident Evil movies, … Continue reading Salt (2010) Review
