Film Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
byScary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a film adaptation of the bestselling cult book popular with children and adults alike for the…
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Film Review: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
byAt the start of Pacific Rim: Uprising, our hero Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) proclaims, “I am not my father’s son”. A similar sentiment could…
Film Review: The Shape of Water (2017)
byThere’s been much anticipation for Guillermo del Toro’s latest feature. With a highly successful festival run (taking home best director and score at the…
Film Review: Crimson Peak (2015)
byWine and cheese. Alcohol and kebabs. Meat pies and tomato sauce. Guillermo Del Toro and horror. All these things are pretty great individually but…
Film Review: The Book of Life (2014)
byThe Book of Life is an animated tale of bravery, loyalty and love, set in Mexico and utilising the imagery and folklore of The…
Film Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
byPeter Jackson‘s The Hobbit series has thrown almost everyone into mutually exclusive camps: the haters and the indifferent. For what is essentially a bit…
Film Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
byIn Jackson’s view, it seems nothing is done unless it is done to excess and this dizzying flurry of action may be exhausting for some. However, it is nothing if not a spectacle and leaves me eagerly waiting for more.
Film Review: Pacific Rim (2013)
byRaleigh (Charlie Hunnam) and Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff) are brothers, pilots, and rock-stars. They have no marketable skills in the real world, but in post apocalyptic aliens vs giant robots world, their ability to hold their own in a fight makes them super human rock-stars.
Film Review: Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
bySo, you want to make an adventure movie, do you? All right, I can see why; they’re as popular as popular can be these…
Film Review: Mama (2013)
byMama is a film ripe with horror clichés, some of the setups seem oddly familiar and there are scenes that leave you scratching your head with a feeling of déjà vu, swearing you’d seen what just happened in Japanese horrors The Ring or The Grudge.