Category: Film Reviews

This is one of those films that I’ve always meant to watch, but never have. When I saw it was being released at the cinema for it’s 60th anniversary, I jumped at it. What a great film! The cast (James Stewart, Kim Novak, and the excellent Barbara Bel Geddes) shine throughout the movie. It is very much of its time,...

The original Ocean’s film (Ocean’s 11) was a great movie. At the time (2001) it was something a bit different, a big names, big budget blockbuster with a great cast and great timing. As with many great films it seems, the studio milked it across several sequels, producing weaker and weaker offerings each time, so by the end of it...

Another Jurassic movie? Okay, I’m ready! It’s going in a new direction though right? New story tropes, new perils, new monsters, new characters, new, new, new? No. Tired, recycled, predictable, meh… I give this movie 5.0/10.

I saw the first Star Wars movie in the local cinema back in 1977. I didn’t want to go, hadn’t really heard anything about it, but I went with a huge group of kids, and everyone seemed excited. I was 9 years old. It blew my mind. I knew when watching that movie that the cinema would never be the...

The original Deadpool was fantastic: a fresh, self-deprecating twist on superhero movies that was filled with in-jokes, laughs, and direct-to-camera gags. Deadpool 2 is more of the same, and I don’t mean that in a good way. Coupling Deadpool with a mini-X-Men cast (yes, the “closing the door” gag was funny) seemed to me to be lazy writing. It didn’t...

I had high hopes for this film. An interesting idea, at least it looked like it from the trailer. And what a cast! It was, though, entirely unsatisfying. The key aspect to any good scary movie is that it stays with you after the movie ends. You walk out of the dark cinema into the night with a growing sense...

A tense thriller directed by that guy from The Office US you say? Starring him as well? I mean, I enjoyed The Office a LOT and he was great in Something Borrowed, but this seems like a bit of a stretch right? Hell no. John Krasinski is an absolute force in this movie. He has crafted something so tense, so...

I was initially intrigued by this film because it was shot entirely on an iPhone 7. The result of that is a much narrower shot than standard movie fare, and it is incredible. It gives the viewer a sense of intimacy and unease that traditional filming doesn’t. There are interesting angles and closeups that add to the viewers sense of...

I remember back when Angelina Jolie was Lara Croft (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – 2001), running around in ridiculous outfits, spouting off silly one-liners as responses to equally silly one-liners from her fellow actors. It was a great idea, poorly executed, and something that we look back on now as being of its time, in the same slightly derogatory way...

Well, what can we say about the climax movie of a tried-and-tested franchise like The Maze Runner? Okay special-effects, flimsy writing, middling acting. Was it good? No, but it was enjoyable for what it was. I’ve definitely seen worse in the genre. Mad Max: Fury Road anyone? I know it got great reviews, and it was about time we saw a...