Reading Time: < 1 minute 7/10
I’ve noticed this film hanging around on Netflix for a while, but couldn’t stomach the grim prospect of watching an air crash and survival film. Even though the air crash part is rather memorable in it’s horror, this film left me much more worried by wolves than air travel.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 8/10
An epic tale from chain gang slave to conquering ‘hero’.
Tarantino simply knows how to entertain, unless of course you don’t relish gratuitous (and splatteringly unrealistic) bloodshed.
Almost 3 hours long it fails to get boring at any point (despite a very simple plot) due to the great characterisation.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 5/10
I can’t deny it, I’m quite partial to breakout films. This one features both Stallone and Schwarzenegger looking pretty good considering they’re both pushing 70. They must really love making films, I’m very sure they don’t need to work.
The breakouts were ok,
Reading Time: < 1 minute 6/10
A well crafted little film following the story of a team of reporters looking into a newspaper advert for a time traveller’s assistant.
The heart of the film lays in the fact that we never really know if the placer of the advert is a genius or a lunatic.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 8/10
After reading both this and ‘The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden’, I kind of felt both stories suffered from the same problem. They both started off well, and were amusing, but they seemed to go on a bit and got tiring. I think this might just be me,
Reading Time: < 1 minute
After watching Noah, The Social Network was a completely different prospect. I’ve been trying to force myself to watch this since it came out on DVD, but the concept seemed so dry that I couldn’t force myself. There’s been a lot of this lately –
Reading Time: < 1 minute 4/10
I thought I couldn’t fail to enjoy an epic story with modern visuals and an all star cast. I was wrong. Noah was pants, despite some impressive CGI and a nice rough ark concept. Russell Crowe was his useful gruff self, but made a reasonable Noah.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 8/10
I loved The Killing, and I’m sad it’s now finished for good (most probably).
Here’s a brief summary:
Season 1 – Excellent
Season 2 – What? Really? Still?
Season 3 – Excellent, relief after Season 2
Season 4 –
Reading Time: < 1 minute 5/10
This is basically Gladiator with an imminently rumbly, erupting volcano. So much seemed to be lifted straight from Ridley Scott’s epic that it became a bit laughable.
It only got more farcical during the ending action sequences, despite some very impressive vulcan visuals.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 6/10
It’s only taken me 21 years to get round to finally seeing this unlikely Olympic story, but I’ve heard it mentioned so many times along the way.
Having watched the story of the real 1988 team though, I’m not sure why they needed to invent so much for the plot of this comedy.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 7/10
Another Tim Burton film that passed me by when released, brought to my attention via Netflix and a eye-catching, memorable title graphic. I caught up with Big Fish finally and was quite surprised how good it was considering I’d not really heard much about it.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 9/10
I finally got round to watching Pan’s Labyrinth over the weekend and was really glad I made the time.
It’s odd how I had pre-judged this film based on very little information, deciding it was a low budget fantasy film that would have my eyes rolling in their sockets from beginning to end.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 5/10
Ryan Gosling plays a disfunctional history teacher in Brooklyn. He’s not a very good teacher because he’s got a bit of a drug issue. Beneath his disheveleed exterior, however, he genuinely cares about some of his pupils. Especially if they happen to catch him smoking crack in the toilets.
Reading Time: < 1 minute 7/10
I like submarine films. I think I watched a lot of black and white war films on BBC2 when I was little. I especially loved the inevitable set piece where the destroyer was closing in and depth charges dropped.
Unfortunately there were no depth charges in The Black Sea,
Reading Time: < 1 minute 6/10
I watched Transcendence and Lucy back to back. Whilst Lucy was a little lame in concept, Transcendence at least had the slightly more plausible, although still fantastical premise to build upon.
Pretty sure the CGI in both films used the same particle plugins –
Reading Time: < 1 minute 7/10
Entertaining in a way, but a little silly and flawed. Whilst Scarlet Johannssen may well be establishing herself as a bit of a Sci-Fi goto-girl, and her performances are always excellent, the premise and story of Lucy are unexciting and not grounded in science past,
Reading Time: < 1 minute 7/10
Clint Eastwood directs the tense, highly patriotic true story of Chris Kyle, an American sniper accountable for taking 173 lives. This film follows how he became a ‘legend’ to his countrymen and a man with a price on his head to the enemy, how he failed to ultimately separate his family life from the battlefield,
Reading Time: < 1 minute 7/10
Quite enjoyed this retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Some impressive visuals, striking performance from Angelina Jolie and some very cute creature creations.
True love’s kiss seems to be a little concept that gets rolled out time and time again – popping up with neat little twists in both Frozen and Malificent in recent months.