Over the years Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain has made a name for himself for creating movies of tragic figures, stories and dark blimps in his country’s history. Recently he made his English Language debut with Jackie based on Jackie Kennedy, but now he goes back to his homeland for Neruda. Swapping the brutality and oppression… Read More Film Review – Neruda (2016)
A question I’ve always been asked when comes to comic books and their movies ‘Why Don’t I like The Avengers or Captain America?‘ Simple one word X-Men or should I say Wolverine. I always remember in my late teens going to my local comic book shop picking up only Spider-Man and X-Men comics, that was… Read More Film Review – Logan (2017)
Hollywood and multi-billion dollar corporations are like 2 peas in a pod, they will never step on each other’s toes and in movies more likely to be filled to the brim with product placements.In today’s Tinseltown, it takes a lot of balls to smear a company’s reputation and Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, it was something… Read More DVD Review – DeepWater Horizon (2016)
The power of love does wonders for many people even if that love is regarded by some as ‘Forbidden Love’. In Amma Asante‘s A United Kingdom, it’s a love that caused a rift between two nations, as a man’s right to lead his nation. On paper, this sounds astonishing and it’s story that had to… Read More Film Review – A United Kingdom (2017)
A sole purpose of a film is to entertain, tell a story maybe deliver a specific message which may get people talking, debating possibly trigger some form of action. Most filmmakers will deliver that entertaining story but as soon as you leave that cinema or if it’s a DVD switch off your player that 2… Read More DVD Review – Himizu (2011)
Rom-coms are ten a penny, so many are created for cinema and home release but so many disappoint, many come and go like Lord Lucan at a Police convention. Maybe we’re too cruel or quick in our opinions of the sub-genre when another appears we’ve already made our minds up it’s a flop. Are we… Read More DVD Review – Sleeping With Other People (2016)
Mental Illness is no laughing matter nor should it be something we should ignore either and it comes in all shapes and sizes but most of all it can affect us all. We sometimes think we understand the illness or selfishly think we have all the answers to curing the illness, in Shinya Tsukamoto‘s Kotoko… Read More DVD Review – Kotoko (2011)
“Elvis has left the building…Thank you very much” What if Elvis Presley entered the building but one of the most famous buildings in the world, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, The White House? In Liza Johnson’s Elvis And Nixon in 1970, the king of rock’n’Roll put on his best jumpsuit, turned up at the back door and… Read More DVD Review – Elvis&Nixon (2016)
Let’s admit we all enjoy a good weepy flick every once in a while. Something that will make you laugh, smile, pull at your heartstrings. Me Before You might just deliver on those promises. If it’s not Michael Bay or Adam Sandler, we can sometimes be very cynical towards the Romance film genre.But if done… Read More DVD Review – Me Before You (2016)
There’s two sayings I like to use a lot,”We’ve got to start somewhere so why not here?” and “Family’s Family”,these two saying are very relevant to The Adopted(Les adoptés)the directorial feature for French actress Melanie Laurent. The film may not be Oscar winning material but a film with real promise for a debut about Families… Read More DVD Review: The Adopted (Les adoptés)
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