‘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)”
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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)”
Classic Film Review: Sin City (2005)
‘It’s based on a comic book and they had hopes when making it of having it resemble, visually, the comic book style and I must admit they succeeded hands down’ Sin City, 2005 Directed by: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez Starring: Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah WoodContinue reading “Classic Film Review: Sin City (2005)”
Film Review: After Earth (2013)
‘So much could have been done with this […] but they then made the decision to hire M. Night Shyamalan as director . . . and writer’ Success or Failure: M. Night Shyamalan After Earth, 2013 Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Jaden Smith, Will Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoe Kravitz, Kristofer Hivju, Sophie Okonedo, LincolnContinue reading “Film Review: After Earth (2013)”
Film Review: The Last Airbender (2010)
‘Winner of five Razzie Awards (including the big ‘Worst Picture’, ‘Worst Director’ and ‘Worst Screenplay’ awards), The Last Airbender is a terrible adaptation’ Success or Failure: M. Night Shyamalan The Last Airbender, 2010 Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi, Cliff Curtis BasedContinue reading “Film Review: The Last Airbender (2010)”
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)”
Film Review: Extinction (2018)
‘As generic-as-they-come in terms of alien invasion films’ Extinction, 2018 Directed by: Ben Young Starring: Lizzy Caplan, Michael Pena, Mike Colter, Lilly Aspell, Emma Booth, Israel Broussard Peter (Michael Pena) is haunted by vivid visions of an alien invasion and slowly they begin to affect his working and personal life. He’s close to seeingContinue reading “Film Review: Extinction (2018)”
Original vs. Remake: The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) vs. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) The second edition of Original vs. Remake is another alien-invasion film made initially in the 1950’s and remade in the early 21st century, but will the original win out again? The story of the film (spoiler alert, by theContinue reading “Original vs. Remake: The Day the Earth Stood Still”
Classic Film Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
‘This is how not to remake a film’ The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2008 Directed by: Scott Derrickson Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, John Cleese, Kyle Chandler If a remake wants to do something different: great, but you need to retain the overall themes that the originalContinue reading “Classic Film Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)”
Classic Film Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
‘A wonderfully told story with an ending full of missed possibilities’ The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 Directed by: Robert Wise Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe Klaatu (Michael Rennie), a humanoid alien, arrives on Earth with an eight-food tall robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to give a warning to aContinue reading “Classic Film Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)”
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