My original review of 2017's Justice League was not kind. I saw the film twice at the cinema and once on home media and each time my opinion of the film got worse. It was half baked with wasted characters, underwritten lead heroes and villains, had poor CGI and massive tonal issues. These issues in … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Recently widowed grandpa Ed (Robert DeNiro) has to move in with his daughter Sally (Uma Thurman) when he accidentally robs the local supermarket because he can not get to grips with self service check outs. Grandson Peter (Oakes Fegley) is moved from his beloved room to the attic to make space for him and he … Continue reading The War With Grandpa
In 2017, Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. A 3000 foot granite rock face climbed with no ropes or safety devices. Free Solo is a great film. I can not believe it took me three years to get around to watching this, but thank … Continue reading Free Solo
This documentary focuses on Fox Rich's campaign to get her husband released from prison over the course of twenty years whilst raising her six children. Rob Rich was sentenced to sixty years in prison without the possibility of parole after he robbed a bank with Fox in 1997. Fox herself spent three and a half … Continue reading Time
Charlotte Willmore (Allison Williams) was a cello prodigy at the prestigious Bachoff Academy until her mother was taken ill and she had to return home to care for her. A decade later she is invited by Anton (Steven Weber), the head of the Academy to choose their next prospective student at a competition in Shanghai. … Continue reading The Perfection
Pixie (Olivia Cooke) has a plan to avenge her mother’s death and escape her gangster family by leaving West Ireland for San Francisco. Of course it all goes wrong and she ends up improvising with Frank (Ben Hardy) and Harland (Daryl McCormick) tagging along. Halfway through watching Pixie it struck me that this film reminded … Continue reading Pixie
Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) learns that he has an illegitimate son in America who is the true heir to his throne. Bringing him home to Zamunda he sets out to train him to be a prince. There is a scene in Coming 2 America where two characters discuss the state of the Hollywood film industry. … Continue reading Coming 2 America
Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington) is now a county sheriff having been runout of Los Angeles Police homicide department five years ago. When he is asked to make an evidence run to LA it should have been a quick errand but he is drawn into a serial killer case that might offer him redemption on the … Continue reading The Little Things
February 2049, three weeks after the “event” and Doctor Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney) watches as the last people living at their Arctic outpost evacuate. He plans to stay in an attempt to warn the last remaining space mission sent to look for alternative homes not to return. We are never told what event has caused … Continue reading The Midnight Sky
On February 25th, 1964 Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) has just claimed the world heavyweight title at the Miami Beach Convention Centre. To celebrate he spends the evening with three friends; Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adair), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) One Night In Miami is a fictional account of a real … Continue reading One Night In Miami
