Well that was depressing. The wars in the middle east trigger a nuclear catastrophe, and survivors find themselves trapped in a basement in Texas after their country was hit by multiple nuclear strikes. Recommended by a fan of Cinema Cocoa, I had zero expectations and no knowledge of the film. Limited release in 2012, the…
Review: The Purge – Election Year
The Purge: Election Year is a decent sequel to Anarchy in 2014, I got exactly what I have come to expect from a franchise trying to buck the trend. Leo Barnes, survivor and rebel against The Purge, is chief bodyguard of a senator who wishes to win the election so she can end The Purge…
Review: War Dogs
From director Todd Phillips, War Dogs is surprisingly serious in tone. Based off true events War Dogs follows David, a twenty-something American who has no idea what to do with his life. That is until he teams up with his eccentric school friend Erhaim and his business of selling military hardware to the US military….
Review: The Shallows
Wow, I was not prepared for how good The Shallows was going to be. A surfer looks to get away from her troubled life by going to the waves at a secluded bay, but when she goes just a little too far out, a great white shark arrives in waters far shallower than normal. Now…
Review: Nine Lives
There’s a notoriety with Kevin Spacey’s cat-transformation venture… I can see why. Can I please have those hours back? The CEO of a major business is ignoring his wife and daughter as he pursues having the tallest building in the city with a competitor. As a result, a strange cat shop owner curses him by…
Review: Lights Out
A reasonably “by the numbers” horror experience with some script and performance problems, but otherwise a decent flick with a fantastic gimmick. A creature lurks in the darkness, it can only be seen in the dark, and cannot attack you when you are in light. The story follows a broken family tormented by the specter……
Review: Suicide Squad (2D)
DC comics’ next installment in its cinematic universe is great to look at, but is not the solid experience audiences were hoping for… In the wake of the cities of Gotham and Metropolis being devastated by the likes of Superman and other “metahumans”, the Government enlists the help of a team of supervillains to destroy…
Review: Finding Dory (2D)
Finding Dory is like a metaphor for our lead character. Insane, dotty and full of slapstick comedy with just a dusting of heart string-pulling. After helping her friend Marlin rescue his son Nemo, the fish with short-term memory loss Dory begins to remember her past. Can she find her parents… somewhere out in the ocean?…
Review: Jason Bourne
The perplexingly titled Jason Bourne arrives nine years after the last entry of the series, and honestly, doesn’t deliver anything new. When Nicki, an ex-Treadstone operative, uncovers new secrets about the closed operation and the existence of a new one, she calls on Jason Bourne to look into it. The super agent has all but…
Trilogy Review: Bourne
An opportunity to rewatch and review one of my favourite film trilogies of all time? Sign me up! The Bourne Identity (2002) I imagine a lot of people forget the more humble, stealthy experience that is the beginning of the Bourne story. When a man is found afloat in the ocean he finds he has…