‘It’s unique gameplay, beautiful visuals and fun worlds all roll into a great game’ Yoku’s Island Express, 2018 Developer: Villa Gorilla Publisher: Team17 Platform: Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One At Christmas I really wanted either Super Smash Bros. Ultimate or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! but my mother, instead, got me aContinue reading “Game Review: Yoku’s Island Express (2018)”
Category Archives: 2018
Film Review: Look Away (2018)
‘The writing is so poor that Maria’s reflection is called Airam. That should tell you more than enough about Assaf Bernstein’s script’ Look Away, 2018 Directed by: Assaf Bernstein Written by: Assaf Bernstein Starring: India Eisley, Mira Sorvino, Jason Isaacs A Canadian psychological thriller, Look Away centres around Maria (India Eisley), an unpopular high-schoolContinue reading “Film Review: Look Away (2018)”
Film Review: Holmes & Watson (2018)
‘This film offers nothing but a waste of 90-minutes’ Holmes & Watson, 2018 Directed by: Etan Cohen Written by: Etan Cohen Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes The film that Netflix didn’t want. A film so bad it’s languishing below 10% on Rotten Tomatoes andContinue reading “Film Review: Holmes & Watson (2018)”
Film Review: Bird Box (2018)
‘[It] has an extremely interesting premise […] however I feel that it didn’t quite live up to the hype’ Bird Box, 2018 Directed by: Susanne Bier Written by: Eric Heisserer Starring: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rey Howery, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Colson Baker, BD Wong, Tom Hollander, Sarah PoulsonContinue reading “Film Review: Bird Box (2018)”
Film Review: Slender Man (2018)
‘Initially I was going to miss out on this film […] and it’s safe to say I wish I had’ Slender Man, 2018 Directed by: Sylvain White Starring: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, Javier Botet When four friends, Wren (Joey King), Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles), Chloe (Jaz Sinclair) and KatieContinue reading “Film Review: Slender Man (2018)”
Film Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
‘I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if the script for this film was written for another and it was subsequently edited to fit the needs’ Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018 Directed by: Ron Howard Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton The second of the spin-off trilogy ofContinue reading “Film Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)”
Film Review: The Festival (2018)
‘I’m normally a huge advocate for British-comedy but this is not a prime example of what our little island can produce’ The Festival, 2018 Directed by: Iain Morris Starring: Joe Thomas, Hammed Animashuan, Claudia O’Doherty What happens when you have some of the creators of The Inbetweeners and a couple of actors also fromContinue reading “Film Review: The Festival (2018)”
Film Review: Annihilation (2018)
‘A beautiful and mind-boggling analogy for personal self-destruction’ Annihilation, 2018 Directed by: Alex Garland Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac A beautiful and mind-boggling analogy for personal self-destruction through a gene-altering world known as Area X, an area covered by a colourful cloud expanding from theContinue reading “Film Review: Annihilation (2018)”
Film Review: The Darkest Minds (2018)
‘A rinse-and-repeat series of clichés from a dying genre’ The Darkest Minds, 2018 Directed by: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Starring: Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Gwendoline Christie For as much love as I the Harry Potter franchise, it unfortunately must be the sole area of blame for the Young Adult (YA) genre’s direction in the two-decades-plusContinue reading “Film Review: The Darkest Minds (2018)”
Film Review: The Meg (2018)
‘Jaws it is not, but it certainly closer to that level than some of the other shark-attack films’ The Meg, 2018 Directed by: Jon Turteltaub Starring: Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, Cliff Curtis Sine Jaws many, many films (including three Jaws sequels) have tried to recapture the magic ofContinue reading “Film Review: The Meg (2018)”
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