What a haunting and ambiguous experience this was! A mysterious woman drives throughout Scotland seemingly for the sole reason to abduct men. If there’s one thing you should know, I will happily watch anything if Scarlett Johansson is in it, and I will probably be biased towards it too (see Iron Man 2) but despite…
Review: Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is one of those films that does so much with so little; a meticulous escalation of one character’s desires coupled with a rich subtext of media’s rotten underbelly. Louis Bloom is a nobody. He has no friends, no close family and zero empathy for others. His shallow attempts to give his life meaning begin by…
Review: Interstellar (2D)
Interstellar‘s beauty is skin deep: at its best it is inspiring and gorgeous to look at; at its worst it can be cliched and paradoxically lacking in explanation. Planet Earth is dying. The land is turning into a dustbowl and little to no life or vegetation can survive the dust storms that ravage the surface….
Review: Fury
An intensely bleak and frank look at five soldiers lives within the confines of a tank at the final moments of World War Two, Fury doesn’t pull its punches and proves to be one solid war movie. Brad Pitt heads the story as tank “Fury’s” captain Don Collier during the conclusion of World War 2…
Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2D)
It is very stupid, very loud and with a pacing that never slows down, but as dispensable as it truly is it still feels like what a Turtles movie is. I enjoyed it. News reporter April O’Neil suspects there are vigilantes in New York City that are fighting back against the notorious terrorist cell known…
Review: Snowpiercer
There are little gems like these that never get the attention they deserve. Luckily I got around to watching it today! Chris Evans is Curtis, a passenger onboard a highly sophisticated bullet train that travels over the globe. However the train contains the last remnants of mankind after catastrophic climate change freezes the entire planet….
Review: 3 Days to Kill
Three days to have awkward conversations. Kevin Costner plays Ethan, a CIA agent thirty-two years in the job and alienated from his young daughter and wife because of it. His life becomes worse when cancer ends his career, but the CIA ask him to complete one last job in exchange for an experimental drug to…
Review: The Conjuring
So I guess I should eat my words a little bit… well done James Wan, you managed to prove you can direct some scares after all! When writing the synopsis for horror films, it always sounds the same: When a family move into a new house in the countryside they find themselves noticing an increasing…
Review: Before I Go to Sleep
Amnesia! The writer’s best friend comes back to haunt Nicole Kidman in her newest thriller. While the premise has been done before, I still found the film engaging and an overall success. Kidman plays Christine, a woman who every day wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years due to an accident. Her…
Trilogy Review: Starship Troopers
Very loosely based off the novel by the same name, Starship Troopers was a pretty infamous film when I was growing up, but it has become a cult favourite of the science fiction genre. Unfortunately… people thought this lightning-in-a-bottle exploitation of Paul Verhoeven deserved a sequel… and another sequel… To this day I refused to…