Review: Under the Skin

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: Lucy

A high speed science fiction thriller with a difference, and three of my favourite actors! Lucy is just another girl before a friend gets her involved with a Korean drug cartel, she is abducted and becomes infected with an experimental neural stimulating drug. The effect cascades and increases, making Lucy a superhuman with access to…

Review: Captain America – The Winter Soldier (3D)

This Marvel train ain’t stopping for anything! The Winter Soldier is quite possibly one of the best entries into the film series yet! Captain Steve Rogers tries to find a sense of place in the modern world working for S.H.I.E.L.D. But when Nick Fury is targeted by a mysterious assassin, Rogers discovers that his patriotism…

Review: Hitchcock

An interesting piece of film trivia packaged with some excellent casting choices. Hitchcock follows the “master of suspense” Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma in the true story of their struggle to produce the classic film Psycho, and how the film was nearly never made. While I can’t say the film gripped me necessarily, it…

Review: Avengers Assemble (2D)

There are four films this year I am banking on being at the top of my list and Avengers Assemble was the lesser. My god this is going to be a good year for movies! Marvel Studios colossal gamble in combining four of their major comic brands into one film was subject to feeling clustered…