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: Deadpool 2 (2018)
byIn 2016 in these very pages I wrote about how Deadpool was breaking the dull, factory-like mould of superhero movies. I wondered if audiences…
Film Review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
byThe Hitman’s Bodyguard is what I like to call a collage of a movie. It’s a load of different pieces put together to form…
Film Review: Life (2017)
byA good sci-fi looks into the future and tells you what could be. A great sci-fi looks into the future and can also tell…
Film Review: Deadpool (2016)
byThousands of words can be exhausted on what’s wrong with superhero movies right now, but let’s just throw out a few. Too many characters…
Film Review: Mississippi Grind
byThere’s little better advertising for the writing of a character and an actor’s performance than being happy to watch them do almost nothing, making…
Film Review: Woman in Gold (2015)
byIn Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altman, a Jewish refugee who fled Austria for America before the outbreak of World War II, never…
Film Review: Turbo (2013)
byThere’s definitely something amusing about watching a snail line up to compete in the Indy 500. Unfortunately that one ridiculous premise alone is not…
Film Review: R.I.P.D (2013)
byR.I.P.D desperately strains to get laughs where it can and they only really come from Roy and Nick’s avatars, a Victoria’s Secret model and a short, elderly Chinese man respectively. But even then, the joke is milked way too much and by the end the audience is so unbelievably sick of it.
Film Review: The Croods (2013)
byIn all seriousness, what really elevates this movie is the attention to detail and visual splendour we have come to expect from big budget animation. Every hair, eye-twitch, leaf and breeze has been accounted for in this spectacular 98-minute action reel/nature documentary.