SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD (2015) – QUICK REVIEW

2015 DIRECTOR: Bharat Nalluri 60/100 An decent enough episode of the Popular BBC TV show, but as with many TV shows which have made the jump to the big screen, it feels like the TV episode. The performances are good, Kit Harrigton bringing his broody Stark persona as usual; the plot is interesting though to…

THE COLDEST GAME (2019) – REVIEW

2019 DIRECTOR: Lucasz Kosmicki 29/100 Netflix may have had unprecedented success at this this year's award season, but films like this certainly are not the way forward... Contrived? This is the best word to describe this so called Cold War thiller. At face value it is an intriguing concept. Whist East and West are embroiled…

CREED (2015) – REVIEW

2015 DIRECTOR: Ryan Coogler 80/100 At first glance, this would seem to be jumping on then reboot bandwagon. Following the mixed reception for 2008's Rocky Balboa, Creed is accepting that Rocky has had his day, quite litterally. Rocky is no longer the titular character of what is essentially a soft reboot of the forty year…

QUICK REVIEWS – WEEK ENDING 7/7/18

...and the films which I have seen this week are... This week was a very light week for me, the sun shining, the World Cup and Wimbledon taking me away from the big screen, but here are the 2 film which I can honestly say that I sat down to watch properly... BLACK PANTHER (2017)…

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (2018) (REVIEW)

The Star Wars Story that nobody asked for, but was is a story worth telling?
In short, NO.

WAS THE 3D WORTH WAIT? STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS COLLECTOR’S EDITION.

Take us back to December 2015. Star Wars bursts back on then big screen after a ten year hiatus and The Force Awakened for us at least, in IMAX 3D. Or so were were told. After paying a premium ticket price for "The IMAX Experience", disappointment was to ensue. Not with the movie itself, which…

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE (3D)

2016 DIRECTOR: Roland Emmerich Twenty years have past since the alien invaders destroyed The White House and one of cinema's most outstanding and timeless special effects was premiered to the world. Two decades have also passed since we, the cinema going public, were exposed to Roland Emmerich's disaster movie meets alien invasion masterpiece. And for…

BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE)

2014 DIRECTOR: Alejandro G. Iñárrit May contain spoilers! Taking the awards season by storm in 2014/2015, Birdman is a film which is launching an unremitting assault on modern cinema, as well as the cult of celebrity. It all begin with the casting of Michael Keaton, who let us face it, has not really reached the potential…

RUSH

2013 DIRECTOR: Rob Howard May contain Spoilers! Based on the true story of the rivalry between the German Formula 1 driver Nicki Lauda and his British counterpart, James Hunt in the early to mid 1970's, Ron Howard's adaptation is supposedly not too far from the truth. This is supported by Lauda himself yet the film…

STAR WARS: EPISODES I – III: A PHANTOM EDIT (FAN FILM)

2014 (1999, 2002 & 2005) DIRECTORS: GEORGE LUCAS (ORIGINAL FOOTAGE) & ANDREW KWAN (RE-EDIT) Contains spoilers! A fan edit making waves on Youtube, A Phantom Edit attempts to make the best of what are, whether you like the prequels or not, poorly written and conceived scripts. The execution is weak, acting and direction is clunky and too much…