Films

If anyone has read the book (and I would recommend it – it’s a good book) I should say this – the movie is NOTHING like the book. I somehow managed to walk [more...]

It has become increasingly popular in “superhero” movies to depict a flawed hero. This makes sense. A squeaky clean hero is not only unrealistic, but difficult [more...]

An all star cast line up for a big budget summer film that I had somehow never heard of. Now You See Me follows a group of magicians while they pull off a series of high [more...]

I feel like a bad person for saying this, but ever since his death I’ve been eagerly anticipating the film adaptation of his life. A hero to many (and a villain to [more...]

I came into Tom Cruise’s latest sci fi film cautiously optimistic. I had heard that it was good. More than that, I had heard that it was good from someone whose [more...]

  It is the past. Human technology has advanced to the point where living past a hundred is considered the norm, but at what cost? There have been many films made around [more...]

LOUD NOISES!! That pretty much sums up one of the most brainless action flicks I’ve seen in a long time. Tough guy Gerard Butler plays a US Secret Service agent who [more...]

Justin Timberlake was a mistake… and so was that other girl Very rarely does a film offer so much potential, yet fall so spectacularly short. This one is screaming for [more...]

I’ll cut to the chase – go watch this film. Lately I have become more and more of a film snob. Without a doubt, the recent big-budget offerings from hollywood [more...]

Nostalgia. Not for certain time, but for a certain kind of film making. J.J.Abrams has been criticized for making films very much like the “old” Steven Spielberg [more...]

The film is a refreshingly original take on the vampire genre. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy who is a "difficult" child. He's a little anti-social, and is the preferred punching bag for a group of local bullies. [more...]

The original Tron was released in 1982. I had barely been born at the time. I first watched it on TV, when I was a young and impressionable boy and I remember enjoying it. [more...]