Way back in the day A spry young Ridley Scott brought out his directors debut, The Duellists, based off historical accounts of two duelling frenchmen during the Napoleonic wars. The film landed with critical acclaim and launched Ridley’s career on to the many projects we know and love him for today. The 1977 classic still…
Very occasionally I find myself in the mood for a schlocky B-Grade action movie. A Shadow in the Cloud ticks all these boxes and adds a few more boxes just for fun, those being: creature feature & Thriller. You’ll see two sorts of reviews for this movie out there, those are “this movie is ridiculous!…
I was lucky enough to be invited to a screener of Earwig and the Witch, and tardily release this review weeks after it released to what few cinemas could operate in this Covid infested world. The movie is Studio Ghibli’s first 3D outing, and as such they had to put their best foot forward and…
A couple weeks ago Elizabeth Banks, director and writer of the new Charlie’s Angels flop got into hot water with internet denizens after she purportedly said that if the movie flops it’s because men are sexist pigs who don’t like seeing movies with vaginas in them. The actual quote itself comes from an article no…
I don’t know what Hollywood thinks is a good way to honour the memory of Robin Williams but this isn’t it. First Disney’s Aladdin and now this. Joker follows the same beats as it’s originator. A crazy guy gets out of an asylum with a renewed interest in bringing joy to the world only to…
Abominable is the latest animated movie by Dreamworks, a studio I think deserves way more credit for the movies they’ve pumped out than they’ve recieved. Something about them usually means they’re missing some of the Pop sensibility that makes Pixar’s stuff gobble up all the attention. Abominable is about a girl, Yi, who lost her…
Ready Player One was made for me, I caught the latter end of Atari, love movies, play video games, am white as fuck. I think a lot of people like me realised this early one when the trailers packed as many pop culture cameos in as possible. But not in the way that Scott Pilgrim…
My expectations for Tomb Raider were low. Very low. I think if the movie played all the way through I would have been pleasantly surprised, that’s how low the bar was. And you know what. I was pleasantly surprised. While I thought Alicia Vikander was the bomb in Ex Machina I just couldn’t see this waif…
Either you’re from the generation that remembers the events of Donald Crowhurst, or like me, he hasn’t been meme enough to be remembered. Tales of daring across the ocean don’t exactly penetrate my generation like it did the last. Circumnavigating the world these days is relatively a breeze, but back when Crowhurst made his single…
Here are the movies to check out this month. You have your blockbuster, your comedy, a shit movie by George Clooney, and an edge of your seat thriller that I’m definitely going to be checking out. Justice League Here it is, finally make or break for DC. They’ve had some real stinkers on the lead-up…