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Movie Review –“Oz The Great And Powerful” (Director: Sam Raimi) (Potential...
Oscar Diggs is a Kansas circus magician who has a run down magic show, charming patter and an eye for the ladies. However, Oscar also aspires to a life a greatness like that of his hero, Thomas...
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Film Review –“The Host” (Director: Andrew Niccol)
Earth has been benignly invaded by an alien race known as “The Souls” with the problems of disease, hunger, violence and environmental damage being a thing of the past. However, there is a last...
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Film Review: “Papadopoulos and Sons” (Director: Marcus Markou)
Harry Papadopoulos is a man who seems to have it all… Big house, Rolls Royce, a very successful Greek food production business, and three children who all live in the lap of luxury. Harry is also a man...
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Film Review: “Oblivion” (Director: Joseph Kosinski)
The year is 2077 and Earth is living in the aftermath of an alien invasion. With the planet gutted and the last survivors seeking the last of the Earth’s resources with the promise of colonisation...
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Film Review –“Man Of Steel” (Director: Zack Snyder) – Slight Spoilers within
Can it really be seven years since the last film to feature Superman? Since then Batman has been the main character to wave the flag for the DC motion picture universe and Marvel Comics have...
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Film Reviews –“World War Z” (Director: Marc Forster) and “Spike Island”...
Last night, I decided to use a free evening to watch two films at my local multiplex and I couldn’t have picked two more different films if I tried. Based on the novel by Max Brooks, “World War Z”...
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Film Review –“The World’s End” (Director: Edgar Wright) SPOILERS WITHIN
Finally, after six years of waiting since “Hot Fuzz”, the collected talents of writer/director Edgar Wright, writer/actor Simon Pegg and actor Nick Frost return to the big screen with the last...
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Film Review –“Captain Phillips” (Director: Paul Greengrass)
It’s pretty unusual to start a review with a recommendation, but I want to grab your attention before I continue. Okay, sat nice and comfortably? Good. ”WATCH THIS FILM!!!” Okay with that out of...
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Film Review –“Thor: The Dark World” (Director: Alan Taylor)
Okay, I’m going to try to make this description as spoiler free as possible. Basically, Thor has been kept busy since the events of the first film and “Avengers Assembled” cleaning up the mess that...
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Film Review –“Gravity” (Director: Alfonso Cuaron)
If anyone’s seen any of the trailers for this film, the premise is pretty self-explanatory. For those who haven’t a potted explanation. ”Gravity” stars Sandra Bullock as Dr Ryan Stone and George...
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Film Review –“The Railway Man” (Director: Jonathan Teplitzky)
Based on the memoir by Eric Lomax, “The Railway Man” tells the story of a man’s experiences of his internment at the hands of the Japanese armed forces during the Second World War, the aftermath of his...
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Film Review –“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” (Director: Kenneth Branagh)
Before James Bond received the retcon treatment with “Casino Royale”, Paramount Studios tried to revamp their Jack Ryan franchise with “The Sum Of All Fears” in 2002 starring Ben Affleck as Ryan and...
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Film Review –“The Book Thief” (Director: Brian Percival)
Based on the novel by Markus Zusak, “The Book Thief” follows the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl growing up with adoptive parents during the tumultuous events of the Second World War – parents...
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Film Review –“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (Directors: Joe and...
Set two years after the events of “Avengers Assemble”, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” sees Steve Rogers attempting to adjust to a new life in the 21st Century whilst working for SHIELD under...
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Film Review –“The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ (Director: Marc Webb)
Hot on the heels of last month’s Marvel co-production, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, comes the latest offering from the continuing partnership with Sony Pictures. Set not so long after the...
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Film Review: “Next Goal Wins” (Directors: Mike Brett and Steve Jamison)
“Next Goal Wins” is a documentary about the American Samoa national football team. In 2011, they were ranked the worst team in the world on FIFA’s rankings including a loss of 31-0 in 2001 against...
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Film Review –“X-Men: Days Of Future Past” (Director: Bryan Singer)
This is the third film in as many months from the Marvel Comics stable, albeit produced through 20 the Century Fox, and I’m going to say right from the outset that I was disappointed with the...
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Film Review –“Maleficent” (Director: Robert Stromberg)
Once Upon A Time… there were two kingdoms – one ruled by a King and one where there was no ruler because the people who lived there, the Fairys, respected one another. But when the greed of a human...
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Film Review –“The Fault In Our Stars” (Director: Josh Boone)
For anyone who wants an introduction to this film, please check out my review of the book. With that out of the way, I want to dive straight into my review of the film. Can it really be two and a...
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Film Review –“Jersey Boys” (Director: Clint Eastwood)
Inspired by the hit Broadway and West End musical, “Jersey Boys” tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons – from their beginnings on the streets of New Jersey and their initial break...
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