Ready player one [based on the book] by Ernest Cline dir. by Stephen Spielberg
Yeah. But no. Just no. I have not read the book. Based on this film I have no desire to.
31 March 2018
The Revenant dir. by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Inspired by the novel which was inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), a fur trapper who was attacked by a bear and left...
1 February 2016
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dir. by Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and his team from MI4, apart from Paula Patton’s Jane character1 have been off hunting down the Syndicate, an evil anti-IMF so to speak....
2 August 2015
Ant-man dir. by Peyton Reed
Sometimes I have to wonder why, exactly, a story has to be told. Why this particular story, with this articular character. Because watching Ant-man the overwhelming...
23 July 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...
8 February 2015
Interstellar dir. by Christopher Nolan
Some time in the near future a blight hits earth. At first it hits the wheat and then spreads to other crops. The whole world turns...
11 November 2014
Dracula Untold [based on characters from the book by] by Bram Stoker dir. by Gary Shore
In the 1400s the Turks claimed boys from the lands they conquered. Vlad was one such boy. Held as a royal hostage he was beaten and...
16 October 2014
A most wanted man [based on the book] by John le Carré dir. by Anton Corbijn
The Sept 11th attacks were formulated and planned in Hamburg, Germany. Now, in an attempt to prevent terrorist cells, a small semi-illegal German spy ring operates...
15 September 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...
22 June 2014
Monsters dir. by Gareth Edwards
Six years ago NASA launched a probe to investigate the possibility of life in outer space, but upon re-entry the probe broke up. The samples ended...
23 December 2010
Eclipse [based on the book] by Stephenie Meyer dir. by David Slade
Okay, so for those of you who have been wise enough to avoid all the Twilight nonsense, here is a quick catch-you-up; a young girl called...
12 July 2010
Clash of the Titans by S.P. Somtrow dir. by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, Lasse Hallström, Louis Leterrier, Peter Weiland
The film opens at sea, in a storm. A fisherman hauls in an ornate box and after prising it open finds a baby boy and his dead mother. He and his wife raise this child as their own, loving him just as much as their flesh and blood daughter, whom they bear some years later. We know this because Pete Postlethwaite tells us so. This boy, Perseus, does not know it, but he is a demi-god, the son of Zeus himself. And he is about to get caught up in a conflict between humanity and the Gods of Ancient Greece.
9 April 2010