Film reviews
Sony Pictures has just released the first trailer for Anaconda, a comedy re-imagining of the 1997 giant-snake thriller. The original is a classic and I remember it fondly, although I advise skipping the sequels. The new film stars Jack Black and Paul Rudd as two lifelong friends who set out to remake the original movie deep…
The new Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trailer has arrived, and despite previous bad experiences with getting prematurely excited by trailers, this looks great. Proper Indiana Jones stuff. I have seen every Indy film in the cinema – each of the first three multiple times and the fourth one just once. I won’t…
The new Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trailer was released recently and as often happens with films in series I adore, I am anxious – but also hopeful and excited. So it is quite the gamut of emotions. I’m a HUGE fan of the three Indiana Jones movies and can’t wait for another….
I just saw Top Gun Maverick and felt the need – the need er… for a review. I haven’t written a film review for a while as I tend to write about things I just saw at the cinema. And that has been a few months. Top Gun Maverick sees Tom Cruise reprise his role…
At long last, Hawkeye is getting his own film. And it looks a shitload of fun. The time of worrying about whether Marvel will make a decent job of things passed a long time ago. A couple films in Phase One weren’t great but since then they keep banging out belters. The idea of a…
I fancied reading a classic Bond, and Moonraker was particularly appealing as I had heard it differed from the film. That turned out to be an understatement. I was prepared for some minor changes but it is in fact utterly, completely different. The similarities are that Bond, M, Moneypenny and Drax are in it. Oh,…
I was playing Ghost of Tsushima last night and it led to me watching the movie Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa. This turned out to be a great, great act of randomness. In Ghost of Tsushima, there a mode that switches everything to black and white. This was to mimic classic samurai films, in particular, those…
In case you missed this production of Frankenstein, here is a recap on the background and what is going to happen. In 2011, the legendary Danny Boyle directed a theatre version of Frankenstein starring Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch. Apart from being a brilliant adaptation of the book, it had a further twist –…
In case you are some kind of ghastly Luddite, a deepfake is essentially when you add someone’s face to someone else and make them say fake stuff. Think digital ‘Face/Off‘. It can also be, for example, when you make someone like Obama says some things he never said (see video below of top ten deepfakes)….
The full title is Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) but from now on I will go with the shorter version. Birds of Prey follows the always watchable Margot Robbie as she reprises her role as the bat-shit crazy, bat-wielding, Batman-hating Harley Quinn. The film is set after Suicide Squad…
I started writing a whining complaint about the increasing move to the subscription model. This was mostly inspired by a diary app I had been using that one day decided to switch from being an app I would happily pay up to £10 for, one off, to one where I would potentially pay hundreds thanks…
The latest movie from Quentin Tarantino, Once upon a time in Hollywood, is on the horizon and it looks great. My personal horizon is currently dominated by Avengers Endgame but it is good to have something to look forward to after that. It has a superb cast and a director who has yet to let…
If you haven’t heard of Honest Trailers then you have been missing out. They are brilliant. I should also apologise as you are inevitably about to watch a load of them. I keep meaning to go through them all again and pick out some highlights but sadly, I can’t be arsed. Generally, just pick films…
I saw Bohemian Rhapsody at the cinema the other day and loved it. This is not a review, however, as I have realised that with a film like this, there is no real point to reviews. There is a reason why opinions are split on this movie and it is down to who is watching…
In the game, you play Peter Parker and Spider-Man (obviously), when he is a 23-year-old research assistant for Dr Otto Octavius. So you can pretty much guess one of the bad guys from the start.
I can’t believe it has taken me so long to watch this. I am a massive fan of all the Uncharted games and have liked Nathan Fillion in everything I have seen him in. This Uncharted film is a fan-made, live-action, 15-minute short movie. It’s possible that I was a bit reticent owing to the words…
Short story shorter – Mission Impossible 6, aka Fallout, is bloody great.
I saw this trilogy meter and thought it was fun for about a minute.
I don’t know how the hell this slipped by me unnoticed but the droids from Star Wars appear in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In my defence, I saw the movie three times when it came out in the cinema but I was really young. Then there were a couple of decades where I had…