Mad Max : Fury Road dir. by George Miller
When I went to see Age of Ulton1 in the IMAX there was a trailer for Mad Max : Fury Road on. And I knew right then and there that I...
29 May 2015
Mud dir. by Jeff Nichols
Ellis (Tye Sheridan) live in Arkansas, on a boat-house, floating on a river1. His father earns a living from the river, catching and selling fish. Ellis’ best friend, Neckbone (Jacob Lofland),...
4 May 2015
Fast and furious 7 dir. by James Wan
aka Furious 7, depending on where you are in the world. So the only other Fast and Furious film I seem to have reviewed on this here blog is number 3,...
5 April 2015
Cyrus dir. by Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
John (John C. Reilly) and Jamie (Catherine Keener) have been divorced for seven years. He never got over that. And now she is getting married again. John is upset, so to...
28 February 2015
John Wick dir. by Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
John Wick’s wife has just died. But its okay, she’s left him the gift of a puppy so that he’ll still have something to love. Because that what he needs, you...
8 February 2015
Birdman dir. by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Riggan (Michael Keaton) is the star of a series of superhero films, the Birdman of the title, but he wants to be known for more than that. He wants to be...
1 February 2015
Big Hero 6 dir. by Chris Williams, Dan Hall
Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) graduated High School at 13, and since then he’s been spending his time at Bot Fights. He hustles older robot controllers. His older brother is not impressed....
31 January 2015
War of the arrows dir. by Han-min Kim
Nam Yi (Hae-il Park) and his younger sister Ja-in (Chae-won Moon) escape the government assassins who kill their father and flee to a family friend. There they grow up knowing they...
27 January 2015
Foxcatcher dir. by Bennett Miller
Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) won gold at the 1984 Olympics. As did his older brother David (Mark Ruffalo). Now they are in training for the Worlds, and then they’ll be focusing...
18 January 2015
Strange Days dir. by Kathryn Bigelow
Part of my 2015 Sci-Fi Experience. Made in the mid-nineties this is a film set in the final few days of 1999. It’s a sort of a dystopian film in that...
1 January 2015
The Hobbit : the battle of the five armies [based on the book] by J.R.R. Tolkien dir. by Peter Jackson
Bilbo and the dwarves have woken the dragon, and Smaug awake is something you don’t want to encounter. As the film begins he is busy destroying Laketown and burning its inhabitants....
14 December 2014
Black Sea dir. by Kevin Macdonald
Robinson has just been laid off. Let go. Fired. And with only a payment of around 8 grand. He is not a happy chappy. The same is true of plenty of...
9 December 2014