Film Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
byIn 2000 Nintendo abandoned the feature where a Pokémon would follow your character around from its series of Game Boy games. And it’s only…
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Film Review: Sometimes Always Never (2018)
byPerhaps you’ve fancied yourself as a Scrabble player at one point or another, but chances are you haven’t sampled the vocabulary (or lexicon) that…
Film Review: The Bookshop (2018)
byWho wouldn’t like a bookshop in their main street? What kind of sociopath would it take to oppose such an innocent undertaking? These are…
Film Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
byThere must be a “franchise blockbuster checklist” that gets ticked off whenever a new movie rolls off the big studio production line. Disney’s latest…
Film Review: Their Finest (2016)
byRepresentation in film matters. Cinema is about exploring and sharing everyone’s stories. When the stories are always told by and about the same people,…
Film Review: Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
byBlood Wars is the fifth installment of the Underworld franchise. With the recent saturation of vampire flicks finally dying down this is a welcome…
Film Review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
byA few years ago, older audiences were given a rare gift in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A fish-out-of-water story, set in beautiful India…
Film Review: I, Frankenstein (2014)
byHearing that the usually reliable Aaron Eckhart and Bill Nighy would be heading a mainly local cast in a reimagining of the classic Mary…
Film Review: About Time (2013)
byAt the end of the day, it seems cheesy, but other than love, what is there really worth going back in time for? Everything else is icing if you have a happy family and a few good laughs. A real first date winner.
Film Review: The World’s End (2013)
byIt has been more than 10 years since Nick Frost, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright teamed up to make Shaun Of The Dead, thus beginning the aptly named “Cornetto Trilogy”, and finally, the trilogy comes to a close with The World’s End.