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)…

ANT-MAN (3D)

2015 DIRECTOR: Peyton Reed CINEMA REVIEW May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Ant-Man marks the end of Marvel's Cinematic Universe's Phase 2, a conclusion which was expected to be Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but as the universe is growing in leaps and bounds, this latest addition simply demonstrates the…

JUDGE DREDD

1995 DIRECTOR: Danny Cannon NOT A PART OF OUR COLLECTION May Contain Spoilers! Will we be adding this to our collection? MAYBE The first signature which I wrote for my MSN email account years ago, was "Rob Schneider In "Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb". This was a quote from a South Park episode,…

DREDD 3D

2012 DIRECTOR: Pete Travis May Contain Spoilers! CINEMA REVIEW Will we be adding this to our collection? YES Judge Dredd began life in the 1970's British comic book, 2000AD and has always been portrayed as warrior of justice, you might say. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where Megacity 1 spans from New York to Boston…

BATMAN RETURNS

1992 DIRECTOR: Tim Burton May Contain Spoilers! It's 1992. Tim Burton is now a major player in Hollywood, having re-imagined Batman as the Dark Knight and followed it up with the iconic Edward Scossorhands. But it wasn't just going to be a straight up sequel for Batman, this was going to be a furtherance of the…

HELLBOY

2004 DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro May Contain Spoilers! 2004 was at the height of the superhero revolution. From 2000 with X-Men, there was a string of successful films, with Marvel leading the way, taking the genre to stratospheric levels. X-Men 2 raised they bar again, proving that the genre appealed to more than just a…

X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE

2009 DIRECTOR: Gavin Hood May Contain Spoilers! Gavin Hood should be ashamed of himself. Not just for sullying the good name of the best X-Man, Wolverine, but for directing his film as if it was his first effort at film school, presuming that he ever went. The characterisations are appalling and as vacuous as the…

WATCHMEN (DIRECTOR’S CUT)

2009 10/10 DIRECTOR: Zack Snyder I first watched the theatrical cut back in 2009 and though I was impressed, I knew that it required a second viewing to be judged fairly. This didn't happen until a couple of months ago when I was treated to the Director's Cut, a version  extended by approximately 25 minutes.…