‘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)”
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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)”
Films Ranked: M. Night Shyamalan
Film Ranking: M. Night Shyamalan Night Shyamalan has a wide range of films with a wide range of quality and having watched them all for the Success or Failure segment I am now going to rank them in terms of my favourite to least favourite (note: this is not ranked by quality, as #1 willContinue reading “Films Ranked: M. Night Shyamalan”
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 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: Ready Player One (2018)
‘A beautiful world full of colours and objects and places that are spectacular to see’ 2018 in Cinema: Ready Player One Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T. J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance Based on the novel of the same name, Ready Player One is set in theContinue reading “Film Review: Ready Player One (2018)”
Best-to-Worst: My Star Wars Film Rankings
After watching all of the Star Wars films over the last couple of weeks, leading up to and including The Last Jedi, here are my official Star Wars rankings of all the films, from worst to best. This list only includes the main films (Episodes I–VIII and Rogue One), and not the smaller television filmsContinue reading “Best-to-Worst: My Star Wars Film Rankings”
Film Review: Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
2017 in Cinema: Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, 2017 Directed by: Rian Johnson Starring: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, Benicio del Toro Attack of the Clones was better thanContinue reading “Film Review: Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)”
Classic Film Review: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Directed by: George Lucas Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee The best Star Wars of film of the prequel trilogy (which, admittedly, holds as much honour as the prize for being the best 50 Shades film), RevengeContinue reading “Classic Film Review: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)”
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