The Expendables 3 dir. by Patrick Hughes
So once upon a time Sylvester Stallone thought it would be a great idea to get a load of 80s action stars, plus Jason Statham, and have a bit of fun...
19 August 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy [based on comics] by Andy Lanning, Dan Abnett dir. by James Gunn
Twenty six years after the death of his mother, and twenty six years after he was abducted by aliens, Peter Quill is on the planet Morag, hunting for an orb. Just...
4 August 2014
Hercules [based on the comic] by Steve Moore dir. by Brett Ratner
Is Hercules the son of Zeus or is he just a man? This film takes a more realistic1 interpretation of the hero. Sure, he performed many incredible feats. But in this...
26 July 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the apes dir. by Matt Reeves
The sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes1 and if you’ll recall at the end of Rise the apes had escaped to the forest and the human world was...
22 July 2014
Jersey Boys dir. by Clint Eastwood
Jersey Boys is based on a musical, based on the life of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Their formation, rise to fame, and then their disintegration. Going in to the...
22 June 2014
Oculus dir. by Mike Flanagan
Tim is about to be released from protective custody. We’re not quite sure what happened him and his sister ten years earlier, but we get a glimpse of them fleeing what...
15 June 2014
22 Jump Street dir. by Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Have you seen 21 Jump Street? The film, not the tv show? Did you enjoy it? If so you’ll probably enjoy this one too. Schmidt and Jenko and back, but this...
7 June 2014
X-Men: days of future past dir. by Bryan Singer
Mutants throughout the world are being hunted down and murdered by the Sentinels. And not only mutants, but anyone with the gene that might result in them producing a mutant child,...
24 May 2014
Godzilla dir. by Gareth Edwards
Is there a point to me doing a quick recap of a Godzilla movie plot? I mean, you all know that Godzilla means monsters and destruction, possibly Japan, and possible monster...
18 May 2014
Pompeii dir. by Paul W.S. Anderson
We open with evil Roman soldiers slaughtering the Celtic Horse tribes. With the commander of the Roman soldiers ordering his forces to “kill them all”. But one boy survives seeing his...
3 May 2014
To kill a mockingbird [based on the book] by Harper Lee dir. by Robert Mulligan
In a small town in Alabama in the 1930’s Atticus Finch is working hard to raise his two children; his son Jem and his daughter Scout. He works as a lawyer...
3 May 2014
12 Years a Slave [based on the memoir] by Solomon Northup dir. by Steve McQueen
In pre-Civil War New York Solomon Northup lives a good life with his family and two children. He is a free man, and well educated, but then he is abducted and...
18 January 2014