Film Reviews Film Reviews – Visions of The Future (Fury Road, Tomorrowland, Moomins) 10 Jun 201515 Jun 2015 Mad Max Fury Road (15) I've got generally happy memories of the older Mel Gibson series. I enjoyed them, though I haven't seen any of them for well over a…
Film Reviews… Film Review Round Up: The Edge of Tomorrow, X-Men Days of Future Past, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 24 Jun 201422 Jun 2014 The Edge of Tomorrow Love Tom Cruise? Well here's a splendid sci-fi vehicle for him, one that make more sense and is more interesting than Oblivion. With aliens rather similar…
Film Reviews Film Review Round Up: A Million Ways To Die In The West, Maleficent and Godzilla (2014) 17 Jun 201417 Jun 2014 A Million Ways To Die In The West A surprisingly faithful Western showing a real love of the genre combined with the peculiar sharpness of Seth MacFarlane's writing style. The film…
Film Reviews… Film Review: The Legend of Hercules (2014) 4 Apr 20144 Apr 2014 Robin Hood: Prince of Gladiators In the wake of dreadful ancient history action mythology movies like Clash of the Titans and 300: Rise of an Empire comes The Legend of…
Assorted Ramblings… Weekend Film Reviews: The Grand Budapest Hotel and 300: Rise of An Empire 13 Mar 201412 Mar 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) The trailers for this had been killing me for a while, and on the strength of Wes Anderson's previous work I was well up for…
Assorted Ramblings… Cinema Trailers – why? 25 Feb 2014 The Glory Of The Off-White Screen We go to the cinema quite a lot. I am not a terribly discerning film viewer - I like explosions, robots, aliens and spaceships.…
Assorted Ramblings… Awesome Things: 2 Films – Fist of Jesus and Two Fingers: Vengeance Rhythm 14 Jan 201414 Jan 2014 Shorter Is Better Over the weekend I caught two amazing short films. As ever I'm about a million years behind the crest of the cool wave, but that means I…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Frozen (2013) 2 Jan 2014 Early Cinematic Joy The first film I ever saw on anything larger than the (now) tiny television my parents had was Disney's The Jungle Book, at Bircotes swimming pool -…
Film Reviews… Film Review Shorties: White House Down / Riddick (2013) 20 Sep 201318 Sep 2013 White House Down (2013) I was drawn to White House Down by its dreadful poster which seemed to depict the president of the United States (or 'POTUS' as I understand…
Film Reviews… Film Review Shorties: Elysium / Pain and Gain (2013) 6 Sep 20136 Sep 2013 Elysium (2013) I loves me some good science-fiction action. The promise of more by the director of District 9 had me excited a year or more ago. The addition of…
Film Reviews Film Review Round Up: Kick Ass 2, The Heat, Now You See Me (2013) 30 Aug 201330 Aug 2013 Kick Ass 2 (2013) I may be bucking the trend, but I didn't really like the first Kick Ass film. I should have loved it really - I have no…
Film Reviews Film Review Shorties: The Lone Ranger, RED 2 (2013) 23 Aug 201316 Aug 2017 The Lone Ranger (2013) This is a long film, unnecessarily long. That's a fair warning that ought to be on the posters - 149 minutes long. It feels it. Not…
Film Reviews Film Review Round Up: The World’s End, Monsters University (2013) 2 Aug 201316 Aug 2017 The World's End (2013) The series Spaced was brilliant, everybody loved Shaun of the Dead and most people quite enjoyed Hot Fuzz and so I went in for the last…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Pacific Rim (2013) 19 Jul 201318 Jul 2013 I loved this film. Utterly and completely - I was hooked from the opening moments right through to the end. I ditched all my critical awareness and was thrilled. I'd…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review Round Up: Man of Steel, Despicable Me 2, Snitch, World War Z (2013) 5 Jul 20135 Jul 2013 A Small Caveat Spoilers ahead! There's no point me telling you what I thought of a film (if indeed you care at all) if I don't talk about the film…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 17th June 2013 17 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 I Believe My Soul Is Dying. Agah! Despite the sleep I'm getting I appear to be exhausted. Today it's from overdosing on family (in the nicest possible way) - I'm…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: After Earth (2013) 14 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 I'm really torn about whether to write this review or not. It's scarcely worth wasting words on, and yet they feel like they need to be extracted from my brain.…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 10th June 2013 10 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 Hyper Lazy Beast Go! I like three day weekends – I achieve no more than I would during a two day weekend so technically I waste more time than usual,…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 3rd June 2013 3 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 Lingering Abed. Unbelievably last week was only three working days long, how then could it have felt like six days? It's cruel and unfair. Never mind, I've just had a…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 27th May 2013 27 May 20132 Jul 2013 The Incredible Value of a Long Weekend. Whoosh. I have been pressured into taking time off work. I am happy about this. I left work on Thursday and don't have…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 20th May 2013 20 May 20132 Jul 2013 Spain? That's A Different Country. Last week was pretty hectic (for me) - Monday evening teaching improv, Tuesday evening doing improv, I don't remember Wednesday, Thursday evening doing improv and…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Iron Man 3 (2013) 17 May 20132 Jul 2013 I must first confess that I am predisposed to love this film. I've been very satisfied with the recent crop of Marvel movies; even the weaker entries like Captain America…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Olympus Has Fallen (2013) 10 May 20132 Jul 2013 I love the Die Hard films, except for the most recent one because it was terrible, dull and contained none of the traditional wrong place, good man doing what has…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review Double Bill: The Host & G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) 12 Apr 201312 Apr 2013 The Host Jeez, what a mess. Obviously anything from the author of Twilight is likely to be pretty poor: derivative, badly written, tedious... This one hits all of those low…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Welcome To The Punch (2013) 29 Mar 201327 Mar 2013 I don’t know where to start – at best this is like a moderately entertaining episode of The Bill. There’s almost nothing positive I can say about this film. I’d…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 25th March 2013 25 Mar 201325 Mar 2013 The Skullfucker Plague Uuurrrgh... I have been afflicted with a curious virus of some kind manifesting as dizziness, nausea and awesome headaches, so much so that I actually had to…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: The Nanny (1965) 22 Mar 201320 Mar 2013 Everyone remembers the usual Hammer Horror set of films, all the great Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, the (still) brilliant Edgar Allan Poe stories and the Draculas. I'd never heard…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 18th March 2013 18 Mar 201317 Mar 2013 It's Booty Time A brighter week inside which is a nice change. Externally the world looks much the same: indecisive weather, stupid poorly-planned people (no one with foresight would have…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 11th March 2013 11 Mar 201310 Mar 2013 Hunting the Bastard Fish Maybe it's just the time of year - the darkness hasn't yet left us, and the promise of summer and light is still just that, a…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Hansel & Gretel – Witch Hunters 8 Mar 20138 Mar 2013 I have a great love for terrible films. Not the really awful soul destroying ones, but those which have decent low budget:high aspiration or high budget:knowingly silly ratios. I firmly…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 4th March 2013 4 Mar 20133 Mar 2013 Amnesiaweek I have very little memory of last week. Curious. Ho hum, I assume it must have either been very busy (which I doubt), or oddly empty. Ah! That's it,…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 25th February 2013 25 Feb 201325 Feb 2013 A MidWeekEnd As you may have noticed dear reader I've been moaning about work a lot lately. Sorry about that. It's the usual problem that work gets in the way…
Assorted Ramblings… Film Review: Warm Bodies 22 Feb 201320 Feb 2013 Zombies are at once the most ridiculous and most terrifying of horror film staples. I was delighted by the original Dawn of the Dead, and genuinely traumatised by 28 Days…
