Film Review: Second Act (2018)
byChristmas approaches and with it, a slew of feel-good films. Some good, some bad, some utter catastrophes. Second Act, directed by Peter Segal, falls…
Harry Potter
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
byWatching with neck craned from the second row, it may be tempting to blame a middling response to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald…
Film Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
byIt’s finally here. The live Disney musical we’ve all been waiting for. Twenty-six years after the animated original (one of the few animated films…
Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
byKing Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s…
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
byIt’s been five years since we bid farewell to Harry Potter on screen and lost our will to live through to November. Harry Potter…
Film Review: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
byFor those of my generation who grew up with a new Harry Potter film coming out every other year, it’s hard to see Maggie…
Film Review: A Little Chaos (2014)
bySeverus Snape is king! Or to be exact, King Louis XIV of France, in Alan Rickman’s latest feature, A Little Chaos. After making his…
Film Review: Die Hard (1988)
byThere is a scene near the start of Die Hard where John McClane’s (Bruce Willis) limo driver Argyle starts playing some rap music. Being…
Film Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
byDespite slightly overstaying its welcome with a running length of two and a half hours, Catching Fire is rarely anything less than entertaining and engaging. As was the case with its predecessor, the film stands as one of the better efforts in terms of cinematic adaptations of popular young adult fictions series.
Film Review: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
byBased on the bestselling books by Cassandra Clare and adapted to screen by Jessica Postigo, the story depicts a fantasy flipside of New York called Downworld, where Shadowhunters battle demons, and wizards, werewolves and vampires coexist (not zombies though).