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The Simpsons Movie

reviewed on May 19th, 2013 03:29PM

Everyone has seen The Simpsons, it’s one of the longest running and most successful TV shows of all time, animated or otherwise. Everyone has seen at least ONE episode and everyone has enjoyed the show so obviously a Movie would come out eventuall...

A Single Man

reviewed on May 17th, 2013 10:57AM

Eclipsed by the Oscar power of The King’s Speech, it’s each to forget that Colin Firth pulled another Oscar nomination the year before his win with A Single Man, the story of a gay professor in 60s California who deals with the grief following the...

Road House

reviewed on May 16th, 2013 12:58PM

I have honestly no idea why Road House is a cult movie, I could understand if it strayed into 'So-Bad-It's-Good' territory but it doesn't, it just stays in boring territory for most of the film with a few moments of ok to elevate it slightly. F...

Avatar

reviewed on May 12th, 2013 11:41AM

I didn’t care much for Avatar when I saw it in cinemas, finding the impressive visuals didn’t make up for the boring storyline. But I figured I’d rewatch it to see if my feelings had changed, and they had but not in the way you’d think. If anythin...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

reviewed on May 10th, 2013 01:19PM

I have many reasons to revisit the Star Wars saga, most prominent being that I haven’t seen the films is a while and with Episode 7 coming out soon I figured I’d get some quick reviews in before then. Why do it numerically, well I have seen them a...

Star Trek Into Darkness

reviewed on May 9th, 2013 12:57PM

Note - Yes, there is lens flare in this movie. Note 2 - It’s only in a couple scenes and really not something worth complaining about. Note 3 - While there are NO SPOILERS in this review, those wishing to be left completely in the dark may ...

Silver Linings Playbook

reviewed on May 8th, 2013 11:33AM

Silver Linings Playbook was a film that I had little interest in when I heard about it, it just felt like another rom-com despite the talent involved in it. Then the reviews started coming in and it turns out the film is actually really good, but ...

Beverly Hills Cop

reviewed on May 5th, 2013 03:37PM

Widely regarded as one of the best action/comedies of all time, Beverly Hills Cop rightly deserves that praise as it really is one of the best in the genre. Mixing good action with great humour and a perfect performance from Murphy as Axel Foley a...

Batman: Under the Red Hood

reviewed on May 4th, 2013 01:42PM

Under The Red Hood is only the second animated Batman movies I’ve seen after Mask Of The Phantasm which, while good, felt like just an extended episode of the animated series. However unlike Phantasm, Red Hood felt very much like what a Batman mov...

Star Trek

reviewed on May 3rd, 2013 10:55AM

Star Trek has always been one of those cultural phenomenon’s where even if you’d never seen an episode - and until recently I hadn’t - you know the characters and their distinguishing styles. They’re face you recognize despite having never seen be...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

reviewed on May 1st, 2013 01:40PM

If not for the word of mouth I doubt I would’ve seen Perks - I think that’s the same for most people actually - but I’m glad I did because it’s not what you expect at all, hell I don’t even know what I was thinking it would be but it wasn’t that. ...

Iron Man 3

reviewed on April 27th, 2013 06:24AM

I may have overhyped Iron Man 3 in my head a little bit, the third - and apparently final - part of this trilogy, I was expecting something bigger but after thinking about it for a moment I realised that I wasn’t thinking about all the pieces invo...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

reviewed on April 23rd, 2013 01:19PM

I never intended to go through the Harry Potter films this quickly but once I was into a flow I found it difficult to stop. I’m actually surprised that I liked the films as much as I did, true nostalgia might have played a factor, after all the Po...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

reviewed on April 23rd, 2013 09:47AM

The idea behind splitting the final Harry Potter book into two films doesn’t really work until you’ve seen both films because by doing so it allowed the second half to be more confined and exciting. However we’re not doing the second half, we’re l...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

reviewed on April 22nd, 2013 02:50PM

I didn’t have good memories of Half Blood Prince, last time I saw it the romantic humour bugged me and took away from my enjoyment of the film. However upon revisiting it I found the that humour to only be less annoying than I remembered but also ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

reviewed on April 21st, 2013 11:17AM

SPOILERS I always remembered Order Of The Phoenix being one of the better Harry Potter films, but since most of the previous four films had under whelmed me I was cautious going into this one. Thankfully there was little need to worry since OOT...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

reviewed on April 20th, 2013 01:22PM

The Goblet Of Fire book was released around the same time as the first Harry Potter film was being made, I remember this because was fuckin massive, showing that Rowling was using the publicity of the films to increase her writing - George R.R. Ma...

The Prestige

reviewed on April 19th, 2013 01:13PM

Not as critically or commercially successfully as his Dark Knight trilogy nor as praise/parodied as Inception, The Prestige can be seen as the underdog of Nolan’s work, perhaps more so than Memento or even Insomnia because here he was at the peak ...

Evil Dead

reviewed on April 18th, 2013 03:29PM

First thing to note is I like the original Evil Dead trilogy, I think all three are great films and I count the second one as one of my all-time favourites. But I don’t love them, they’re not sacred to me so the idea of a remake, while seemingly s...

Iron Man 2

reviewed on April 17th, 2013 03:16PM

I enjoyed all the Marvel lead up movies - save perhaps Hulk but it was still watchable - but Iron Man 2 is one that I’ve not seen since the cinemas, I’ve seen the first Iron Man quite a few times but it’s sequel not so much. While not a bad film i...

Paranormal Activity 4

reviewed on April 12th, 2013 08:22AM

This is a Paranormal Activity film right? Cause there was no activity and very little of anythng paranormal. Hell I bet even the 4 is a lie. Boring, boring, boring. Just so goddamn painfully boring. Not scary, not interesting, hated da...

Fast and Furious

reviewed on April 10th, 2013 11:38AM

Fast & Furious, annoyingly the forth one in the series despite that very same title being used as an acronym for the first film and the series in general, is a definite step up from the last film - then again, hemroids would be preferable to Tokyo...

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

reviewed on April 10th, 2013 10:26AM

"I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its ...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

reviewed on April 9th, 2013 01:44PM

O Brother Where Art Thou is one of The Coen Brothers less talked about films and while definitely a good film I kinda see why. It’s well-made, well-acted and stylish but it’s execution doesn’t work as well as it should and it hurts the film as a r...

Spring Breakers

reviewed on April 6th, 2013 10:17AM

I might get called crazy for this but to me, Spring Breakers is this generations (my one to be specific) Fight Club or Natural Born Killers, a rare piece of cinema that is made by and for the exact time it’s released and shown to blow the minds o...

2 Fast 2 Furious

reviewed on April 5th, 2013 02:08PM

2 Fast 2 Furious (either the greatest or dumbest title to a movie ever) is exactly what you expect. Fun to watch but instantly forgettable, this is a complete ‘Dude Bro’ movie that at least has the audacity to admit it’s a ‘Dude Bro’ move. Filled ...

The Fast and the Furious

reviewed on April 3rd, 2013 12:13PM

My viewing of Fast Five last year wasn’t my first entry into the Fast & Furious franchise, I actually caught the first two of TV a few years back. So with the sixth instalment coming out soon I figure I might as well revisit the series and grab a ...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

reviewed on March 29th, 2013 01:40PM

Before revisiting the Harry Potter films I believed Prisoner Of Azkaban to be one of the better entries into the series, however this latest venture back to Hogwarts has shown me that it actually isn’t. It’s still a good film and the darker tone w...

Vampires Suck

reviewed on March 27th, 2013 12:16PM

I want to make it clear that I watched this movie unwillingly. I only did so because I lost a bet and while I am a man of my word that doesn’t mean I have to be gracious in defeat. This movie lives up to it’s name and SUCKS. It’s awful, pathetic, ...

Atonement

reviewed on March 26th, 2013 10:14AM

Atonement is one of my all-time favourite films, I make no bones about it, the whole film is sheer brilliance in my opinion. A stunning romantic epic about human mistakes and past sins, it places real characters in an unreal situation and has us w...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

reviewed on March 24th, 2013 12:24PM

I liked the first Hellboy movie but I thought it was flawed in a few key areas, and basically it was Pearlman and Del Toro that saved the film. That might have lowered my expectations for this film but even if it hadn’t I think I still would’ve va...

Hellboy

reviewed on March 23rd, 2013 03:53PM

I’ve not read any Hellboy comics so I can’t judge that aspect of it but I can still judge it as a comic-book movie. Keep in mind that I have seen this film once before but it was a long time ago and in that time comic-book movies have grown up and...

Wreck-It Ralph

reviewed on March 22nd, 2013 10:49AM

I’ve said before that I consider myself a gamer, perhaps overly so. I tend to focus more of a virtual life than my real one. But that being said I’ve always loved playing games and even if I missed the birth of the Videogame with Mario, Pacman and...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

reviewed on March 20th, 2013 03:39PM

This is my second Spielberg Sci-Fi film that I’ve been under whelmed by, the first being E.T. that I saw earlier this year, I don’t know whether it’s because I’m use to a more action heavy Spielberg with Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan and even...

Fish Tank

reviewed on March 18th, 2013 03:15PM

I’ve been meaning to watch Fish Tank for a long time, I’m a big fan of British Indie Films and hearing about this got me interested. I’ve no idea why it took this long to see it but I’m glad I finally did, it’s a great film that goes to uncomforta...

The Guard

reviewed on March 17th, 2013 12:36PM

I remember the first time I saw The Guard, it was my first time at the Edinburgh Film Festival and it was the opening film, touted as a spiritual sibling to In Bruges - the directors of both films are brothers - and with Bruges being one of my fav...

Before Sunset

reviewed on March 16th, 2013 12:56PM

For obvious reasons this review will spoil Before Sunrise so if you haven’t seen that film yet, get on that. When I saw Before Sunrise for the first time a couple months ago I loved it, it was sweet, it was simple and it was romantic, it was a ...

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

reviewed on March 15th, 2013 01:49PM

Possible Spoilers. Horror deconstructions are nothing new, there’s been a fair few of these types of films, with Scream and Cabin In The Woods being two famous examples. But for my money I’d say Behind The Mask is the one that gets it the most ...

The Wild Bunch

reviewed on March 13th, 2013 05:01PM

When people talk about influential films they think of flicks like Star Wars, Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction, films that have a lasting impact on cinema and change movies in their own way. Well arguably no film is quite ad influential as The Wild Bunc...

Spirited Away

reviewed on March 13th, 2013 12:56PM

Only my second film from Studio Ghibli and arguably their best, Spirited Away is a very unique and strange film but beneath it’s wild appearance lies a true heart and tragic beauty with a great story and gorgeous animation. The story of Spirite...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

reviewed on March 12th, 2013 01:25PM

After Philosopher’s Stone gave a good but childish film, Chamber Of Secrets was a step in the right direction, it was still one of the more child friendly entries into the series but the direction is getting darker, mirroring the change of tone th...

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

reviewed on March 11th, 2013 08:54AM

I never saw Atlantis when I was a kid which is a shame because I remember the ads and really wanting to, but I missed my chance and forgot all about it. That is until I find the damn thing on Netflix and figure, what the hell? While not a classic ...

Naked

reviewed on March 9th, 2013 03:35PM

Touted as perhaps the most underrated British film of all-time, Naked is a truly fantastic piece that is designed to both interest and disgust the audience with the interesting and disgusting character of Johnny. Billed as reaction to the ending o...

Leaving Las Vegas

reviewed on March 8th, 2013 12:43PM

Leaving Las Vegas is a brilliant film and slightly underrated in my opinion, it’s amazingly bleak with two incredible performances within. It takes an unflinching look at a hard subject but still manages to give us a tragically beautiful tale. ...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

reviewed on March 8th, 2013 11:46AM

I’m pretty sure this is gonna be a short review because there’s not a lot to say. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a very odd film, it’s not complex or visually interesting but just the things that happen in the film are so incredibly odd that you can...

Garden State

reviewed on March 7th, 2013 08:38AM

I bought Garden State a few years back because it was the directorial debut by Zach Braff and I was really big into Scrubs. I remember liking it but I haven’t seen it in a while so I couldn’t remember a lot of it. After revisiting it I’ve got to s...

Grindhouse

reviewed on March 5th, 2013 02:53PM

SPOILER WARNING I don’t know how long this if gonna be since technically this is two movies so prepare for a lengthy read. Planet Terror The first part of the Grindhouse double-bill is Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, a send up tot Over-The-Top...

Hot Shots!

reviewed on March 4th, 2013 12:01PM

I'm not going to do a proper review for this film because I honestly don't think I can. This is a film that just goes for broke in comedy terms. Ripping mostly from Top Gun, Hot Shots finds master pilot Topper Harley, discharged from the air fo...

Safety Not Guaranteed

reviewed on March 3rd, 2013 08:21AM

I missed Safety Not Guaranteed and that was unfortunate since I heard so many great things about it but circumstances prevented me. Now I found an opportunity to check the film out and it was a revelation, this film was not what I was expecting at...

Stoker

reviewed on March 2nd, 2013 03:07PM

I’ve only seen OldBoy of Park Chan Wook’s previous works but I fuckin love OldBoy so I’m up for seeing anything else of his and his first full English Language feature is a good start. I had no idea what to expect with Stoker - I actually expected...

The Matrix Revolutions

reviewed on March 2nd, 2013 08:08AM

Matrix Revolutions, from the original and intelligent sci-fi creation to… this. Alright that’s a little harsh, I didn’t hate this film but I can see why a lot of people do. The story is just one overlong ending, the characters were nothing and it...

Top Gun

reviewed on March 1st, 2013 11:22AM

SPOILER WARNING Top Gun has a reputation, mostly for it’s unintentional homoerotism, but it’s also remembered as a great guy movie. However after seeing it for the first time I just don’t get it, I found the whole thing to be clichéd and boring...

The Five-Year Engagement

reviewed on February 28th, 2013 03:06PM

There was a time a few years ago where the Apatow crowd were the Kings and Queens of R-Rated comedy, while they may have hit their peak they still produce some damn good films and Five Year Engagement is one of them, it’s not their best work and i...

The Matrix Reloaded

reviewed on February 28th, 2013 02:02PM

The first Matrix movie was an original and intelligent sci-fi movie that has become a cultural phenomenon. The sequels on the other hand… ok while I can’t speak for the third one just yet Reloaded isn’t actually that bad. Oh it’s nothing on the or...

Schindler's List

reviewed on February 24th, 2013 01:46PM

Schindler’s List is a masterpiece. I don’t know any other way to put it, it’s a film that you will love but never want to see again because it’s so well made that it shows you these horrible atrocities and you can’t help but feel sickened. However...

Platoon

reviewed on February 24th, 2013 08:55AM

Platoon is a really good film because it comes from a great source, Oliver Stone uses his own experiences as a Nam soldier to give a realistic and morally ambiguous retelling of one Platoon’s struggle through the shit. The plot concerns Bravo C...

No Country for Old Men

reviewed on February 23rd, 2013 02:06PM

No Country For Old Men is a film that if you go into it ignorant then you’ll probably have a decent time but nothing special. But if you go into this film with a critical eye and a knowledge of The Coen Brothers’ previous works then you’ll find yo...

The Matrix

reviewed on February 23rd, 2013 10:16AM

Hailed and parodied in equal measures, The Matrix is seen as one of the greatest and most influential sci-fi film ever made and rightly so, the revolutionary use of slo-mo and visual effects combined with wirework and practical FX means that the f...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

reviewed on February 22nd, 2013 03:22PM

Only the second of three films to win the big five at the Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is not only one of the best films ever made but also one of the most important, dealing with a subjec...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

reviewed on February 22nd, 2013 12:04PM

Philosopher’s Stone - I don’t know what this Sorcerer bullshit is - starts the cinematic Harry Potter series and it does a decent job, it sets things up rather well and it’s clear to be hooking children in for the more darker tales of the latter ...

Good Night, and Good Luck

reviewed on February 21st, 2013 02:08PM

I know very little about 50s Americana, since I wasn’t born until the 90s and not in America. But I have been privy to reflections of this time period, mostly from the Fallout games, and looking back the communist scare seems a little silly. Good ...

Raging Bull

reviewed on February 21st, 2013 11:25AM

“After I saw the film I turned to my wife and said ‘Was I really that bad?’ and she looked at me and said ‘No Jake, you were worse.” - Jake La Motta. While famed for his Mafia movies, Scorsese has done several other genres and this is his sport...

Forrest Gump

reviewed on February 20th, 2013 01:31PM

I first saw Forrest Gump in high-school, never heard of it but after watching it the whole class loved it and I bought the DVD shortly afterwards. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it but this revisit has shown that it does hold up pretty well...

The Fighter

reviewed on February 19th, 2013 02:46PM

When it comes to Sports films there’s one thing that all the greats focus on and that’s the characters, and not just underdogs, the best Sports films take flawed people with problems and have them overcome those problems through the sport of the f...

Beasts of the Southern Wild

reviewed on February 19th, 2013 11:14AM

Another 2012 flick I missed in cinemas, I checked out Beasts Of The Southern Wild after hearing a lot of good things about it. Now having seen it I don’t think it lives up to the hype, it’s a good film but they’re so obviously trying to get a mess...

Michael Clayton

reviewed on February 18th, 2013 02:14PM

Alright let’s see if I can do this. I’m not to sure how much I can write down, the reasons will become clear momentarily. I saw Michael Clayton once before a few years back and I can’t remember too much of it save for an impressive assassinati...

L.A. Confidential

reviewed on February 18th, 2013 10:29AM

Whenever I’m writing my top 10 films of all time I put L.A. Confidential up in that list (usually at number 10) and this re-watch just proves that it belongs there. Goddamn is this a perfect film or what, the story is engaging, the acting sublime,...

Unforgiven

reviewed on February 17th, 2013 03:15PM

Back in 1992, Unforgiven was part of a Western revival in Hollywood and proved very successful with critics, winning Best Picture at the Oscars, one of only three Western films to do so. Now, over 20 years later, the film still holds up as one of ...

Gladiator

reviewed on February 17th, 2013 10:07AM

Gladiator is a film I’ve seen once before and knew I liked but I never found a chance to watch it again, well I found one and checked it out. It’s till a great film, a little slow in places but the good far outweighs the bad in this modern histori...

Smokin' Aces

reviewed on February 16th, 2013 10:51AM

Cool but forgetable. A nice wee timewaster but nothing more. Some cool scenes but a lot of useless filler. 7/10

Saw 3D

reviewed on February 15th, 2013 10:05AM

This is gonna be a short review because I can sum up my thoughts on this film with bullet-points. The plot was weak and focussed too much on characters that were new to the series but acted like they were in it a lot longer. The characters s...

Shoot 'Em Up

reviewed on February 14th, 2013 01:47PM

There’s a name for films like Shoot Em Up. It’s called Fuckin Carnage. Films like Shoot Em Up know exactly what they are, what their target audience wants and gives em that in spades. What it lacks in originality and logic it more than makes up fo...

Saw VI

reviewed on February 14th, 2013 09:51AM

While Saw 4 and 5 have been pretty shit in comparison to the first three film, Saw 6 improves slightly on the series. It’s not technically a good film but it’s a good Saw film and takes the franchise back to what it needed, a simple story with som...

Inglourious Basterds

reviewed on February 13th, 2013 10:08AM

I saw Inglorious Basterds a few years ago and I remember liking it - I can still remember a lot of scenes from it - but I only saw it the once and I didn’t know how much I liked it. Well seeing as I’m going through Tarantino’s back catalogue I saw...

Kill Bill: Volume II

reviewed on February 12th, 2013 01:28PM

While technically one film, Kill Bill is split in two and as such you view it as two movies and you judge them separately. With that in mind I can safely say that I prefer the first part to the second, that being said Volume 2 isn’t a bad movie, i...

Kill Bill

reviewed on February 12th, 2013 06:46AM

In my run-through of Tarantino films I come across one of his I haven’t seen nearly enough times, the first volume of Kill Bill. Having not seen the film in a few years I was surprised how just how well made the film is, not to say Tarantino’s oth...

American Psycho

reviewed on February 9th, 2013 02:16PM

I always feel bad when a well-loved film under-whelms me, most of the time I like them but I don’t love them and American Psycho is one such film. It is a good film and I do recommend it but it has problems. First off is the story, it’s far too...

Take Shelter

reviewed on February 9th, 2013 10:03AM

I missed Take Shelter in cinemas which I regretted since I heard so many great things about it, I should’ve watched this earlier because I’m sure it would’ve got a place in my top 10 of 2011. It’s got an engaging story, a fantastic central perform...

Jurassic Park

reviewed on February 8th, 2013 02:25PM

Jurassic Park is one of my nostalgia films, those ones I saw as a child and grew up with, however, due to laziness/life/divine intervention I haven’t seen the film in many, many years. Well having bought the DVD and since today (at the time of wri...

Mother's Day

reviewed on February 7th, 2013 01:36PM

I had no interest in this film before today, not because it didn’t appeal to me, I just didn’t care. How wrong was I? Taking a recommendation from a friend I checked Mother’s Day out and had a good time with it. Well not a GOOD time because it’s o...

Back to the Future

reviewed on February 7th, 2013 07:25AM

Back To The Future holds a place of nostalgia in my heart, I’ve seen it several times as a child and I’ve revisited it a few times over the years. It’s a very good film and highly re-watchable, from the original plotline to the sense of humour, it...

Friday Night Lights

reviewed on February 6th, 2013 03:34PM

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking ‘King, you’ve gone on record as saying you don’t care about American Football. You’ve even insulted the great American pastime. Why are you watching this football film, and why have you given it a perfe...

Heat

reviewed on February 6th, 2013 10:03AM

Heat is a film I really need to watch more often because it’s not only one of the best (if not the best) cops and robbers films of all time but it’s one of the best films of all time and features some truly intense and brilliant action scenes that...

City of God

reviewed on January 31st, 2013 02:30PM

City Of God is hailed as one of the all-time best foreign films and one of the best films ever made, and I can see why, it’s a epic crime thriller, akin to Goodfellas but instead of a rise to power, it stays in the shitter the whole way through, w...

Scream

reviewed on January 31st, 2013 01:31PM

Often hailed as one of the best slasher films of all-time and a game-changer for the then tired and worn out genre, Scream does suffer a little from the fact that it’s so successful that it’s message has been done so many times now by people tryin...

The Princess Bride

reviewed on January 27th, 2013 08:52AM

Adding yet another film to the list of ones I should’ve seen a long time ago, The Princess Bride gave me a movie that was more than what I was expecting going it. A funny, well-written romance with memorable characters and endless quotes, it’s a c...

Lincoln

reviewed on January 26th, 2013 02:28PM

Everyone knows who Lincoln is. Whether you agree with him or not you’ve heard his name, you know what he’s done and why he’s often considered the greatest American President of all-time. Hell, I bet some of you can do an impression of him and you’...

Zero Dark Thirty

reviewed on January 26th, 2013 01:04PM

Unlike films like Argo or Lincoln, I was part of the history of Zero Dark Thirty, granted it was at a time where I was ignorant of the news in my young age - true story, I didn’t know about 9/11 until 2004 - but I have since learnt more about the ...

Goodfellas

reviewed on January 25th, 2013 02:49PM

250 reviews. 25% on the way to 1000. Fuck. What can be said about Goodfellas that hasn’t been said already? Should I mention the brilliant storyline about the dangers of flying too close to the sun? Could I talk about the spectacular acting tri...

Paul

reviewed on January 25th, 2013 10:33AM

It might feel weird seeing a Pegg and Frost movie without Edgar Wright behind the camera but Paul, for the most part, works rather well. It’s well written and you can tell there was a lot of heart put into this, it does suffer a little from overus...

Saw 5

reviewed on January 24th, 2013 01:27PM

As I’ve said in my previous reviews for the Saw films I consider myself a fan of the series, however with Part 4 and now this being disappointing entries I’m trying to wondering if the first three are good enough to keep me a fan. Well I’ve alread...

Martyrs

reviewed on January 23rd, 2013 03:43PM

I’m gonna try not to spoil this for anyone that hasn’t seen it but no promises. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned the fact that I’m a fan of French horror. When it comes to scaring you with disturbing and violent films those French fucks really kn...

V/H/S

reviewed on January 22nd, 2013 01:49PM

V/H/S/ is gonna be a tough film to review since it’s an anthology piece and features many small films in one. Now I’ve reviewed anthology films before, Trick R Treat and Sin City being two of them. But whereas those film had a connecting storyline...

Suspiria

reviewed on January 21st, 2013 08:47AM

Suspiria is one of the horror classics that you don’t hear about as much as Exorcist of Dawn of The Dead but it deserves to be included amongst that lot because it’s a highly effective and brilliantly crafted horror film from the master of Italian...

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

reviewed on January 19th, 2013 11:52AM

E.T. is widely regarded as a masterpiece and one of Spielberg’s all time greatest films. Is it? No. Is it close? No. It’s a good film but honestly I was just under whelmed by it, there wasn’t a magical feeling, there was too much stuff that was ju...

Django Unchained

reviewed on January 18th, 2013 03:30PM

Tarantino is one of those directors who hasn’t got many films to his name but the ones he does have are always brilliant with bloody violence, pin-sharp dialogue and memorable characters. And Django is no different, set as a tribute to the Spaghet...

This is England

reviewed on January 17th, 2013 02:00PM

Shane Meadows is a film-maker that’s impressed me with everything I’ve seen of his. Granted I’ve only seen two of his films but both have been outstanding with powerful performances in both, with This Is England he not only makes his greatest film...

Before Sunrise

reviewed on January 14th, 2013 10:47AM

Before Sunrise is often hailed as one of the greatest romantic films of all time, and me being a sucker for those types of films I decided to check it out. And honestly it deserves that praise, it’s well written, has two great performances at the ...

The Collector

reviewed on January 9th, 2013 12:34PM

The Collector is one of those - for lack of a better word - underground movies, the ones that you don’t hear about until someone says ‘Dude you gotta see this’. Maybe not, maybe Collector is a little closer to the surface than most but I maintain...

Saw 4

reviewed on January 8th, 2013 12:50PM

Be warned there as MAJOR SPOILERS in this review, but it’s a fuckin Saw movie what the fuck do you care? Saw 4 is always gonna be remembered as the beginning of the end for the franchise, after a brilliantly original first outing followed by tw...

Blade Runner

reviewed on January 4th, 2013 12:47PM

I doubt this will be my last review for Blade Runner, I need to see this film a lot more to form a true opinion but right now this is my first-hand look at the film. This review is for The Final Cut. Blade Runner is one of those films that I’ve...

Paranorman

reviewed on January 2nd, 2013 11:27AM

It’s quite strange when Pixar releases a film and it turns out not to be the best animated film of the year. For god knows how long that’s been a given but it seems that 2012 is the year where we give that title to someone else, and until I see Wr...

Detention

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 02:13PM

After checking out Excision earlier this year I though no film could come close to the sheer fucked-up nature of that film. And yet this one just about ops it. Detention is a film that will (or at least should) be remembered as having one of the b...

Saw 3

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 12:00PM

I’ve always considered Saw a trilogy, because of how this one ends it only makes sense, and while not as good as the first one it’s about on par with the second which I enjoy so I liked this one as well. It’s got a good narrative and some brillian...

Bernie

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 07:27AM

On it’s surface, it’s hard to believe that Bernie is a true story, a man shoots dead the woman he works for, confesses, but because he’s so nice and so charming, the trial had to be moved to another county to keep things fair. But when you watch i...

Goon

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 06:08AM

The only reason I didn’t seen Goon earlier was because I thought it came out last year. ‘But’ I hear you cry ‘King, you well-endowed hunk of manliness, you’ve seen several films that weren’t released this year, why not this one?’ To that I say shu...

Get the Gringo

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 04:12AM

Get The Gringo is a good film, not as good as I was hoping for but it’s a decent action film with some funny moments and Mel Gibson in his best role in years. I wasn’t disappointed by it - far from it - I was just hoping for a little more. The ...

Lockout

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 03:41AM

Lockout is nothing special. It’s a film you’ve seen a hundred times before, it’s basically Escape From New York in Space. And I didn’t think much of Escape when it was on Earth (I liked it, put your pitchforks down). It has it’s moments but honest...

Christmas Vacation

reviewed on December 23rd, 2012 12:18PM

And so we add yet another series to the annoyingly long list of films I haven’t seen as I have my first look into the National Lampoon’s Vacation series. Oddly for such an anally retentive prick such as myself I start with the third entry and what...

Friday the 13th

reviewed on December 22nd, 2012 09:55AM

Everyone has their guilty pleasure films, myself included. I like romanctic movies like Atonement, Like Crazy, even Brokeback Mountain. But this is the first film I actually feel guilty over liking because I’ve heard so many bad things about it, a...

Pulp Fiction

reviewed on December 21st, 2012 02:14PM

There are many impossible tasks in this world. Climbing Everest with no supporting gear, driving a car with no wheels, watching the whole first season of 24 in one day. But my friends, one of the hardest tasks that anyone can face is trying to cat...

Reservoir Dogs

reviewed on December 19th, 2012 04:30PM

Not only is Reservoir Dogs the most successful indie film of all-time (certainly the most culturally) it is also a massive cult hit in it’s own right (which I think negates the meaning but I digress). Even now, almost 20 years since it’s release i...

They Live

reviewed on December 18th, 2012 09:40AM

Good, could've been better. Piper and David were both great in their roles and worked well together, Piper especially since he doesn't start as the bad-ass but grows into it once the glasses are put on. Carpenter does some good action scenes...

The King's Speech

reviewed on December 15th, 2012 03:42PM

It’s easy to pass King’s Speech as just an Oscar grabbing film but the thing to remember is that these types of films win Oscars for a reason. They’re actually bloody good and The King’s Speech is definitely a good film, hell it’s a great one and ...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

reviewed on December 13th, 2012 09:47AM

I’ll get it out the way real quick. The Hobbit is not as good as LOTR. And I can say that with no hesitation. What it is however, is a damn good film with some great characters and suitably epic moments, it’s the first chapter and things are looki...

Life of Pi

reviewed on December 12th, 2012 10:28AM

Life Of Pi is a film that will divide audiences. On hand you’ll get people that will see it as a visual masterpiece and a deep, thought provoking tale of faith and survival. On the other you’ll get people who’ll think it’s a pushy film about relig...

Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels

reviewed on December 10th, 2012 12:22PM

Having rewatched Snatch recently I figured to go back to the source of check out Lock, Stock, the Guy Ritchie original. And it was a good film, had some faults and Ritchie has gotten better as he’s gone on but the film is still fun and you still h...

Moonrise Kingdom

reviewed on December 7th, 2012 12:58PM

I like to think I’m a Wes Anderson fan even though I’ve only seen two of his films. Now that number climbs to three with his latest, Moonrise Kingdom. While it does feature a lot of the Anderson trademarks - quirky characters, bright colours, Bill...

Seven Psychopaths

reviewed on December 6th, 2012 11:57AM

Back in 2008, Martin McDonagh surprised everyone with his wonderfully un-p.c. and brilliantly hilarious In Bruges, a film that proved McDonagh to be a face to watch out for and that Colin Farrell can actually be pretty fuckin good. Now they team u...

Inside Man

reviewed on December 2nd, 2012 03:25PM

I feel like Inside Man may be an underrated film, I’m not entirely sure. I mean it’s great, and people know it’s great, but not enough people have seen it. And they should, the story is simple but the way they execute it is brilliant, the cast is ...

A History of Violence

reviewed on December 2nd, 2012 10:47AM

There will be SPOILERS in this review. Based loosely on the graphic novel of the same name, History of Violence tells the story of a quiet man in a quiet town who is suddenly thrust into the limelight when he kills two robbers. After trying to ...

Bad Santa

reviewed on November 28th, 2012 01:32PM

Bad Santa is a film that falls into the alternative Christmas film, like Die Hard or Lethal Weapon. It doesn’t have the typical Christmas film style but it does have the setting and the message. It’s also fuckin hilarious, this is one funny film, ...

Snatch

reviewed on November 25th, 2012 11:11AM

I’ve not seen Lock, Stock so I can’t compare this film to that (although I have heard they are very similar). Regardless Snatch is a great film, typical Guy Ritchie stuff but this was only his second film and he does a damn good job of it. The fil...

Excision

reviewed on November 22nd, 2012 01:29PM

You know how you’ll get those films that just stick with you because you’ve no idea what the fuck you just watched. This is one of those films. It is freaky, it is weird, it is downright disgusting at times. At yet it’s so intense and so unique th...

Cars 2

reviewed on November 19th, 2012 04:11PM

It fixes some of the problems with the first film but it's still not a good film. I liked the Bond style story and the spy shit was pretty damn fun, made for a good plot. The whole 'idiot mistaken for a spy' gag was boring and unoriginal and...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

reviewed on November 18th, 2012 03:27PM

Planes, Trains & Automobiles is widely consider a comedy classic and while not the funniest film I’ve ever seen I can see why, Martin and Candy are great together, there’s a lot of funny moments and the film has a lot of genuine heart, something a...

Argo

reviewed on November 18th, 2012 07:59AM

Five years ago Ben Affleck was name people sniggered at, while not horrible he had made a lot of bad choices in his career. Then came along Gone Baby Gone, his directorial debut and that made everyone shut up. Then again in 2010 he proved that he ...

The Master

reviewed on November 17th, 2012 03:48PM

I’m a big fan of P.T. Anderson’s films, Boogie Nights is great, There Will Be Blood is near perfect and Magnolia is one of my all time favourites. This film I have to say isn’t his strongest work but there was something about it that caught my int...

Safe

reviewed on November 15th, 2012 08:17AM

Safe could’ve easily been another typical action flick, exciting but forgettable. But actually it proves itself to be a pretty damn good film with some brilliant action scenes and Statham playing his best role in ever. It’s not the best action fil...

License to Kill

reviewed on November 13th, 2012 11:56AM

Very underrated Bond film. Really dark and violent story which I liked a lot. Dalton is a great Bond, playing dark and vengeful before Craig was dreaming of being a secret agent. The Bond Girl, Pam, was pretty good, had an edge to her and a ...

The Living Daylights

reviewed on November 13th, 2012 11:26AM

Good but pretty forgetable. Dalton did good, the main girl was nice, the villains were just plain boring and the action was alright for the most part; the ski chase was pretty cool and I loved the 'hanging out the airplane' sequence. But yea...

Saw 2

reviewed on November 8th, 2012 03:59PM

The first Saw came out of nowhere to be a really damn good thriller/horror film, it had an interesting premise, an original killer and a great twist ending. So a sequel was inevitable. Thankfully the sequel - unoriginally called Saw 2 - is a good ...

A View to a Kill

reviewed on November 8th, 2012 01:05PM

We reach the end of Moore's Bond era and what a disappointing ending it is. It's not the worst Moore Bond - not while Moonraker is still around - but it's just so unremarkable that it's barely worth a mention. The plot, I can't even begin to ex...

Octopussy

reviewed on November 7th, 2012 04:29PM

Ok, this is going to be a very short review because I can hardly remember shit about this film I was so bored by it. Seriously I can't remember shit, the plot had something to do with a lot of jewels, I guess it was a robbery. There were Russai...

The Exorcist

reviewed on November 5th, 2012 03:41PM

Following in the veins of Aliens, Lethal Weapon and Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist is yet another first time watch of a classic for me and much like those films I really liked this one, finding it to be a creepy, uncomfortable and effective...

For Your Eyes Only

reviewed on November 5th, 2012 12:42PM

For Your Eyes Only is the definition of a good Bond film and nothing more. It’s a watchable film and everything works but it’s all just sort of there, nothing really standing out or making it anything more or anything less. The plot regards a B...

Dr. No

reviewed on November 3rd, 2012 10:11AM

Dr. No is a classic in film and the Bond franchise, not only does it start off the series with great style but it also sets the template for all other spy films to follow. And perhaps most importantly it introduces us to that greatest of men. Jame...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

reviewed on October 29th, 2012 11:28AM

Whether it’s for Halloween or Christmas, The Nightmare Before Christmas is worthy of a watch, its got a fun and original storyline, a unique aesthetic and visual style and the music isn’t half bad either. Set in Halloween Town, a place filled w...

Skyfall

reviewed on October 26th, 2012 01:22PM

(Actually none of you will get that. It's an insult) Wow, 200 reviews already. Man I need to get out more. NO SPOILERS Now I’ll start this review by letting you in on a little secret. I’m not the biggest James Bond fan. Put down your p...

Dawn of the Dead

reviewed on October 26th, 2012 12:43PM

My apologies to Terminal 83. I’m not sure, but I think I saw this remake before the original Dawn of The Dead, I checked out the first film later and while the original is easily the best this film is just so much damn fun that I can look past ...

Land of the Dead

reviewed on October 25th, 2012 02:28PM

It was about 30 or so years since Romero touched the zombie genre between Day and Land but he returned and he brought about a fun film with a good story, a large but well-acted cast and some cool zombie moments. Yet again, following the films b...

Day of the Dead

reviewed on October 25th, 2012 12:09PM

For the longest time I thought I preferred Day to Dawn, finding it a more fun film. Well I’ve found out today that Dawn is definitely superior, Day is a good film, the story is tense and the FX are bloody brilliant but it’s slow for the most part ...

Dawn of the Dead (1979)

reviewed on October 25th, 2012 09:40AM

The original Dawn Of The Dead is regarded as the pinnacle of zombie greatness. And for good reason, it’s got a good story, a small but well acted cast and a great director at the helm. It’s slower than most modern zombie films but in an odd way th...

Halloween II

reviewed on October 24th, 2012 04:50PM

Halloween 2 has got nothing on the original, it is however a halfway decent film and while it does slip in a few aspects it remains a good watch and a fitting end to Michael. If only. Picking up exactly at the end of the first film this flick f...

Halloween (1978)

reviewed on October 24th, 2012 02:12PM

There’s no denying that John Carpenter’s Halloween is a classic, it’s tense, it’s atmospheric and it introduces us to the original Brick Shithouse Michael Myers. It might have lost a good deal of it’s scare in it’s age but that hasn’t stopped it b...

An American Werewolf in London

reviewed on October 23rd, 2012 04:23PM

American Werewolf In London is yet another classic film that I haven’t seen until now, I do know what it’s about and have seen the transformation scene in passing but this is my first full viewing. The verdict, well made but not the masterpiece I ...

Trick 'R Treat

reviewed on October 22nd, 2012 07:24AM

When I first saw Trick R Treat I didn’t think much of it, although at the time this was due to me not expecting it to be an anthology rather than just one film. However rewatching it with fresh eyes I can say that it’s a pretty damn good movie tha...

Saw

reviewed on October 21st, 2012 01:51PM

Before it became a joke, Saw was a clever and inventive thriller, it’s a horror film for the MTV generation who didn’t grow up with Halloween or NOES. And despite how awful that must sound it’s a dam good flick. The film opens with two men, Dr ...

Event Horizon

reviewed on October 21st, 2012 01:05PM

Event Horizon might not ever be remembered as a particularly good film, for a horror it isn’t exactly scary. But what it is, is fun, fucked-up and freaky. Set in 2047, a small crew are called off leave to travel to Neptune (this is in space if ...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

reviewed on October 21st, 2012 12:25PM

This might be a short review, I’m still struggling to form an opinion on this film. TCM is not a typical slasher film, it has little of the genre clichés, there’s no build-up, no rhyme or reason for the actions of it’s villains. I’m actually st...

The Shining

reviewed on October 19th, 2012 01:35PM

I’ve seen The Shining a few times and while creepy I’ve never been terrified by it. This viewing was a little difference, now that I’m old enough to understand what’s going on I have no clue what just happened and I’m scared by the whole film. ...

Paranormal Activity 3

reviewed on October 18th, 2012 11:53AM

Paranormal Activity 3 is definitely the weakest in the trilogy, it does have some of the creepiest moments of the three films but it’s let down by a lot of boring filler and a what the fuck was that ending. Flashing back even further to when Ka...

Paranormal Activity 2

reviewed on October 18th, 2012 11:25AM

Paranormal Activity 2 is a bit of a tease because it’s actually a prequel, set a couple months before the first film it follows Katie’s sister Krista and her family as they struggle with a newborn baby and spooky goings on. While not as good as th...

Paranormal Activity

reviewed on October 18th, 2012 10:57AM

Paranormal Activity was a big deal when it was released, billed as a true story it told a ‘terrifying’ ghost tale about a young couple that experience terrors in their home. While it wasn’t all that it was still a well told ghost story. Set in ...

Dead Man's Shoes

reviewed on October 16th, 2012 02:22PM

Dead Man’s Shoes is one of my all time favourite films, it’s a modern day revenge thriller reminiscent of Get Carter or First Blood. It’s criminally underrated and features an absolutely fantastic performance from Paddy Considine as the morally am...

Let the Right One In

reviewed on October 16th, 2012 11:58AM

It’s gonna be difficult to review this film without sounding totally like the review for the remake ‘Let Me In’. I’ll give it my best though because while similar in certain aspects Let The Right One In is different in a number of ways that make i...

Jackass 3D

reviewed on October 15th, 2012 11:03AM

God I can't review this film. If you like people getting hurt you'll like this film. That's all I can say really, a bunch of grown men hurting each other for the entertainment of others, what's not to love. I didn't like the stuff with pi...

Black Swan

reviewed on October 15th, 2012 07:14AM

More than just a hot lesbian scene, Black Swan has a brilliant mix of psychological terror and Cronenbergian body horror, headlined by an incredible lead performance from Portman and you have one of the best made horror films of recent years. T...

The Thing (1982)

reviewed on October 14th, 2012 12:09PM

The Thing is a classic horror film made by probably the master at suspense, John Carpenter. It’s not big, it’s not showy, it’s pure and simple survival horror with probably the best FX I’ve ever seen. The plot revolves around a group of men wor...

All the Boys Love Mandy Love

reviewed on October 13th, 2012 07:41AM

As a disclaimer before I start this review, I believe - and this is common knowledge - that Amber Heard is one of the most unfairly gorgeous woman on the planet. She’s is just ridiculously beautiful. With that in mind if I go off topic she’ll be t...

Let Me In

reviewed on October 12th, 2012 05:53AM

Pleaser note that I haven’t seen Let The Right One In yet so if I praise this film for something that’s in the original then I’m also giving praise to that film as well. Let Me In is Twilight, except it’s a fuck load better. It’s a vampire roma...

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

reviewed on October 8th, 2012 08:12AM

NOES hasn’t really been the best with it’s sequels. 2 was hilariously bad, 3 was a rare moment of greatness, 4 made no sense, 5 was ok and 6 was fuckin awful. So why should 7 buck the trend? Because it’s a return to the franchise for two of the ma...

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

reviewed on October 8th, 2012 07:30AM

Freddy’s Dead is not a good movie. It’s horseshit, it’s absolute trash, it’s about as scary as piece of paper and half as interesting. It’s a fuckin joke that isn’t funny in the slightest, you don’t laugh, you just feel a little sick afterwards. ...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

reviewed on October 7th, 2012 12:34PM

(Always thought that phrase was a little sick.) After the mindfuck of the last film I decided just to leave all sanity at the door for Dream child. That was a good idea, while not great or even good Dream Child was at least better than Dream Ma...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

reviewed on October 7th, 2012 10:12AM

Dream Master is a film that did something to me that very few films have done, it made me angry. I was yelling at the screen, trying get the movie to make any kind of sense. Things just seemed to happen in this film with no rhyme or reason, I know...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

reviewed on October 6th, 2012 01:51PM

SPOILERS After the incredible gayness of Freddy’s revenge Dream Warriors takes a turn in the right direction. By doing everything completely different. I won’t say it’s better than the first film but with it’s inventive nature and cool kills, i...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

reviewed on October 6th, 2012 10:30AM

I want to start with a disclaimer. I have nothing against homosexuality, I actually like gay people, I like their music, I like their style, I like what they’ve done with Halloween and I especially like their women. But I am also a teenage hetero...

28 Weeks Later

reviewed on October 3rd, 2012 04:37PM

While not needed, 28 Weeks Later is a great sequel, it takes the original formula and ramps it up, making everything bigger, there’s more action, more gore and a far bigger scope. It’s not as good as the original but it’s still an enjoyable film. ...

28 Days Later

reviewed on October 3rd, 2012 03:54PM

28 Days Later is a modern zombie classic, well maybe not a classic but it’s still a fuckin great film, tense, exciting and well made it tells a story about humanity in the face of a zombie apocalypse. The story follows Jim, a bicycle courier wh...

Ghostbusters

reviewed on October 1st, 2012 10:43AM

What can be said about Ghostbusters that hasn’t already been said? Nothing, read someone else’s review to see how great this film is. Ok I’ll give my thoughts. Ghostbusters is a damn fun film, it’s mixes great comedy with great horror, it’s hil...

Killing Them Softly

reviewed on September 30th, 2012 12:38PM

I was surprised by Killing Them Softly, it’s a gangster film but it doesn’t take a traditional route. It treats the mafia like a business, with committees running things and public opinion meaning something and even needing the OK from higher ups....

Looper

reviewed on September 30th, 2012 11:06AM

POSSIBLE SPOILERS. All those things you’ve heard about Looper being a great sci-fi film are true, it’s clever, it’s well acted, the story is great. It’s really damn brilliant film. Set in 2044, a young man named Joe works as a Looper, someo...

Toy Story 3

reviewed on September 26th, 2012 12:07PM

Well here it is, the end to one of the greatest trilogies ever made, easily the best animated trilogy. Toy story 3 ends things on a high note, bringing the toys to their most fearsome enemy, their biggest danger and eventually an ending that is ha...

Frontier(s)

reviewed on September 21st, 2012 03:53PM

Fuck this film. This film was just terrible, I mean I’m a fan of French Horror but this was just shit. There was no story, it was just ‘let’s fuck with these four for an hour and a half’. The heroes were unlikeable and idiotic - oh I must e...

Up

reviewed on September 21st, 2012 01:33PM

For the most Up is a wonderful story following an old man and a young boy as they travel together through a land of colour and amazement. Wow that actually sounds really dodgy. The fact remains that for the first hour Up is a touching story wit...

Mad Max

reviewed on September 18th, 2012 04:44PM

Mad Max may be low on budget, very low by the looks of things, but that doesn’t mean it skimps on a good film. It’s got a dark turn in it from Mel Gibson, some great chase sequences and damn great direction from George Miller. Everyone knows th...

Lethal Weapon 4

reviewed on September 18th, 2012 02:36PM

Well I’ve finally done it, I’ve made my way through all four of the Lethal Weapon movies for the first time. And I must say that they hold up pretty damn well across the board, even with this, the forth instalment, they still manage to create an f...

Wall-E

reviewed on September 14th, 2012 11:16AM

As I get older and see more movies on DVD I get regretful about the ones I didn’t get to see in cinemas when I had the chance. This movie however, I regret not seeing on opening day then ever day afterwards. I loved Wall-E, I’m a Pixar fan and in ...

Titanic

reviewed on September 13th, 2012 12:26PM

I’ve always been one of those people who avoided Titanic, it’s always had this image in my head of being a chick flick. But with circumstances being what they are I had a chance to check it out. Boy I’m glad I did, this is a fantastic film, it’s g...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

reviewed on September 11th, 2012 12:37PM

This is going to be a short review. I really don't know what to think about this film, it's easily one of, if not the most bizarre and mind-fucking movie I've ever seen and it's not just difficult to follow, at times it's downrigth impossible. ...

Ratatouille

reviewed on September 10th, 2012 04:43PM

Ratatouille manages to get the bad taste of Cars out of my mouth so I’ll give it points for that. However I felt like this was… not a disappointment but it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. Don’t get me wrong it’s a great film but it’s not ...

Dredd 3D

reviewed on September 9th, 2012 07:00PM

Dredd is fuckin awesome. You don’t need to know anymore other than this is one of the coolest films of the year and some of the best use of Slo-Mo and 3D ever. This is a fun film and you should all check it out. Set in a futuristic world whe...

Lawless

reviewed on September 9th, 2012 03:42PM

Based on the true story of The Bondurant Brothers, Lawless takes a look at 1930s America where the booze came in jars and the booze sellers came in droves. The whole Prohibition storyline has been told several times before but with a great directo...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

reviewed on September 6th, 2012 11:26AM

NOTE - This is for the Special Edition with some extra scenes that I might talk about. When people think of great sequels, Judgement Day is one of them, following on from the first film it brings back not only some of the original cast but also...

Cars

reviewed on September 5th, 2012 03:47PM

Cars prove that everyone has a bad spot, even the perfect people. In this case Pixar makes it’s first bad movie, to be fair it isn’t terrible, it’s actually got some good part to it. But the fact is that this is a boring film with some unlikeable ...

Airplane!

reviewed on September 3rd, 2012 12:00PM

This is gonna be a tough one. I’ve said before that comedies are hard to review but this film is near impossible, don’t get me wrong it’s funny, in fact it’s probably one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen, but the humour is so bizarre, so su...

The Incredibles

reviewed on September 1st, 2012 03:19PM

Wow. I can’t believe it took me this long to finally get the hoopla about this film. When I first saw it I didn’t think much of it but this revisit as shown me why this is considered one of Pixar’s best, it takes the superhero movies, adds it’s...

Brave

reviewed on September 1st, 2012 10:48AM

No Spoilers Brave is Pixar’s latest film (at the time of writing this review) and it proves that after 17 years in the business they are still churning out great films. I will admit that there was something missing from this film that didn’t ma...

The Lion King

reviewed on August 29th, 2012 04:45PM

I’ll start this review with a preface. To say I love The Lion King will be like saying Republicans are just a little odd, or that Kelly Brook is quite pretty. I fuckin love everything about this film, the story, the characters, the animation, the ...

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

reviewed on August 29th, 2012 02:26PM

Tintin is something of a childhood call-back for me, I read a lot of the books when I was younger and saw one of the animated films countless times. With a screenplay by Edgar Wright and a master like Spielberg at the helm, the end result is a fun...

Sin City

reviewed on August 28th, 2012 11:59AM

Sin City is a personal under-rated film for me, I say I love it - and I do - but I’ve nowhere near watched it enough times. Based of the graphic novels series of the same name the film follows three hard boiled men as they risk everything to help ...

RocknRolla

reviewed on August 28th, 2012 07:01AM

RocknRolla is a fairly typical Guy Ritchie film, a British gangster comedy with stupid criminals doing stupid things and getting hurt as a result. It’s an unoriginal plot but the film does boast some great characters and the actors playing them lo...

Finding Nemo

reviewed on August 25th, 2012 12:12PM

Along with the first two Toy Story’s, Finding Nemo is one of the Pixar films that I’ve seen the most since I own it on DVD. It has been a long time since I last saw it so this Pixar run-through is a perfect chance to for a revisit and it did not d...

Monsters Inc.

reviewed on August 24th, 2012 09:00AM

At this point in my marathon I think it’ll be easier to name the Pixar films that aren’t near perfect since four films in and Monster’s Inc is yet another winner. It’s one of Pixar’s most original and heartfelt films with great chemistry between i...

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

reviewed on August 23rd, 2012 09:57AM

Note - Don't let the score put you off, I did really like this film but it did have it's problems and I didn't have the nostalgia factor behind it. It's very close to being an 8 but it doesn't quite make it. Much like Lethal Weapon, Rambo and F...

Cop Land

reviewed on August 22nd, 2012 04:08PM

I’d never even heard of Cop Land until a few weeks ago and that surprised me, with the heavyweight names involved I thought it would be amongst the classics. However after watching it I can see why I’d never heard of it. While a good film with som...

The Expendables 2

reviewed on August 18th, 2012 09:46AM

As some of you may know, I’m not the world’s biggest action junkie, I like the genre and a lot of my favourite films are action but it wasn’t until this year (2012) that I got into the classics. One of the action films I checked out was The Expend...

Watchmen

reviewed on August 16th, 2012 03:25PM

I saw Watchmen a few years ago and I remember liking it but I’ve never picked it up again despite having a good few chances to do so. Well now with 2012 being the year of the film for me I decided to not only check it out again but actually watch ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

reviewed on August 12th, 2012 10:04AM

Scott Pilgrim is a film that I would describe as a wet dream for fans of comic-books, video games and 80s retro if it didn’t sound so disgusting. This is brilliant film with humour, style and enough nods to satisfy even the most hardcore gamer, ho...

Ted

reviewed on August 11th, 2012 03:52PM

Say what you will out about Family Guy or any other of Seth Macfarlane’s work, I like the stuff, I can watch Family Guy at any time and American Dad has moments of genius in it so I was happy to see this film. And I can say with certainty that it ...

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

reviewed on August 11th, 2012 04:52AM

Mask Of The Phantasm is essentially the movie version of the Animated Series, that’s not a bad thing TAS is amazing but this definitely feels like more an extended episode than an actual movie. I don’t think this is overrated but the amount of pra...

Machete

reviewed on August 8th, 2012 10:30AM

Machete is a mess of a film, yes it’s ridiculously violent, yes it’s fun in it’s Grindhouse fashion and yes if you go into this not expecting much then you’ll be satisfied with the cheesy nature of the film and the several quotable lines. The prob...

Rambo

reviewed on August 4th, 2012 07:52AM

And so the Rambo-thon concluded unironically with Rambo, one of the bloodiest, most unflinchingly brutal films I’ve seen in a long time and one of the best action films. While First Blood is the best Rambo film this one of my favourite and easily ...

The Terminator

reviewed on August 2nd, 2012 06:53AM

The Terminator is hailed as a sci-fi action classic and deservedly so, it introduces us to one of the best action heroines of all-time, Sarah Connor. It starts one of the most impressive and intelligent franchise plots ever made and brings us one ...

Rambo III

reviewed on August 1st, 2012 01:20PM

With Rambo 3 being the second most violent movie ever made (The first being Rambo 4) I felt safe in thinking that they couldn’t possibly leave the murder of over 100 people until the final half hour, and I was right. While I do think the first Ram...

Casablanca (Re-issue)

reviewed on July 31st, 2012 04:33AM

Casablanca is one of those films that always appears on the ‘Best Of’ lists and for good reason, even after all this time it still holds up remarkably well, the script is tight with some great quotes, the cinematography is great even with the blac...

Memento

reviewed on July 30th, 2012 01:21PM

SPOILERS People can praise the Batman trilogy all they want but this, this right here is Nolan’s masterpiece. Fantastic acting against a clever and engaging story that is directed near perfectly. This is the best film from one of today’s best d...

Princess Mononoke

reviewed on July 26th, 2012 03:43PM

I feel bad for not having checked out a Studio Ghibli film before, I’ve seen anime before - mostly tv shows and one weird demon film with lots of nudity - but not an actual movie like this before. I feel bad because I actually really liked this fi...

Rambo: First Blood Part II

reviewed on July 26th, 2012 07:12AM

First Blood is regarded as a classic and after seeing it for the first time I could see why, it’s sequel however didn’t fare as well. It starts off pretty bland and uninteresting and it isn’t until the final 30 minutes that makes it actually an en...

The Proposition

reviewed on July 22nd, 2012 12:46PM

The Proposition is a very underrated film, it’s got a great story, fantastic acting, brilliant direction and a haunting score but it’s never got the praise it rightly deserves. In the Australian Outback of the 1880s, two brothers are captured ...

First Blood

reviewed on July 21st, 2012 10:48AM

Much like Lethal Weapon, Rambo is a series of films I’ve never had a chance to check out but I’ve rectified that now with my first viewing of First Blood. It’s aged slightly - not a lot - and the message isn’t as powerful to a young whippersnapper...

The Dark Knight Rises

reviewed on July 20th, 2012 10:54AM

(NO SPOILERS.) HELL YEAH BITCHES. Oh man this film was great, it promised an epic end to an epic trilogy and it fuckin well delivered. It had a brilliantly flawed main character, it had a twisting story going through it all, it had an outsta...

Like Crazy

reviewed on July 19th, 2012 12:16PM

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. My guilty pleasure in movie genre’s is romance, I don’t know why but I just love the genre, probably became 9 times out of ten it ends tragically. That being said, Like Crazy may not be the best romantic...

Punch-Drunk Love

reviewed on July 19th, 2012 11:31AM

Paul Thomas Anderson has made five films, of those five I have seen three, all of which I have enjoyed immensely. Punch Drunk Love is the forth film of his I’ve seen and while it is the weakest of his it was enjoyable enough to watch and features ...

Toy Story 2

reviewed on July 17th, 2012 01:22PM

Toy Story was a great film, it was near perfect and started Pixar on it’s road to greatness. Now it’s sequel, the aptly named Toy Story 2, continues the story with enjoyable moments, memorable characters and some heart in the middle of it all. ...

Spider-Man 2

reviewed on July 17th, 2012 12:31PM

Before revisiting this film I always considered this film to be the best of the trilogy, now however, while I enjoy this film the most I think it does have several moments that are embarrassing and cringe-worthy that take away from experience. It’...

Inception

reviewed on July 16th, 2012 12:11PM

After making Batman cool again for the first time in decades there was a time when anything Christopher Nolan was making or going to make that was seen as God-like. Inception being a prime example of this phenomenon it was hyped to hell when it wa...

Batman Begins

reviewed on July 14th, 2012 04:01PM

It’s hard to imagine that seven Christopher Nolan would start a trilogy that has become one of the most revered, loved and critically acclaimed in many years. And yet start it did here with Batman Begins. The story is about, no surprises, how B...

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part IV

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 02:45PM

Jason Lives get the film going the right way straight from the start by ignoring everything that happened in the last film. This instalment is actually a far less ‘slasher’ type film, it plays more like an action film with some black comedy elemen...

Friday the 13th - Part V

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 12:29PM

This was a bad film, this was a bad, bad film. A mess of a plot driven along by annoying, unlikeable characters and a boring killer. Bad, bad film. Set several years after the last film Tommy, now all grown up and off his fuckin rocker, has bee...

Friday the 13th: Final Chapter

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 10:26AM

I’ll admit going into the F13 films I was a little worried that I was in for a day of bad, cheesy movies. Well I was half right, they are cheesy but I’m having fun with them and with the exception of the broing second entry they’ve just kept getti...

Friday the 13th Part III

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 07:56AM

After the less than stellar Part 2 I was worried going into 3 since it’s directed by the same guy. However my worries were nothing and Part 3 turned out to be quite a fun film and my favourite in the series so far. Still ignoring the warnings a...

Friday the 13th Part 2

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 05:03AM

Friday 13th Part 2 has a definite drop in quality from the first film, it’s not bad it’s just, average, it’s actually pretty boring and didn’t hold my attention. It’s been five years since the last film and Jason’s legend lives on of course her...

Friday the 13th (1980)

reviewed on July 13th, 2012 02:46AM

Friday The 13th may be an iconic franchise now but all franchises start somewhere and this one started here in 1980 with a slasher classic that still holds up pretty well today. In 1958 two councillors for Camp Crystal Lake were murdered and th...

A Bug's Life

reviewed on July 12th, 2012 01:38PM

A Bug’s Life is another winner in the Pixar library, it’s a lot more kid oriented than their previous work Toy Story but by no means does that make it a bad film. The story follows a colony of Ants who have, for generations, been collecting fo...

Batman

reviewed on July 12th, 2012 10:28AM

With all the hype and love going towards Nolan’s Bat Trilogy it’s easy to forget that there are other Batman films that are just as good and just as fun as the modern films. Burton’s 1989 film being a prime example. While not an origin story, t...

Predator 2

reviewed on July 8th, 2012 03:39PM

Alright film, a few good scenes - the slaughterhouse search was really great - but mostly forgetable. Characters weren't memorable and/or likeable, only Bill Paxton and his bad jokes made any form of impact. Direction was pretty mediocre, so...

The Amazing Spider-Man

reviewed on July 7th, 2012 11:52AM

WARNING - I’ve tried to avoid any major spoilers in this review but I might let a couple of minor ones slip through so read on if you want. Putting aside the fact that this film has been made too soon from the last trilogy, this is definitely t...

God Bless America

reviewed on July 1st, 2012 08:09AM

I’ll start this review by talking about something you should never talk about on the internet. Politics. I am a liberal person, in fact I’m one of the most liberal people you’ll ever meet. I mention this because I think God Bless America is aimed ...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

reviewed on June 27th, 2012 11:47AM

The Assassination of Jesse James is a film that never really got the attention it deserved, yes it had a couple Oscar nominations but I’m talking about movie fans, no-one really mentioned it amongst the great Westerns which is a shame because desp...

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

reviewed on June 27th, 2012 01:25AM

(I did this review as a blog about a month ago but now that I can do the review I'm just copy/pasting it) I’ve heard some things about Tucker & Dale so I knew the basic story and I have to say it was quite intriguing. After watching the film I ...

Braveheart

reviewed on June 26th, 2012 11:56AM

Braveheart was a film I never really got into, surprising since I am in fact Scottish - shock I know, I’ve never mentioned it before. I’d seen it a couple time in History class (More on that later) but I didn’t think that much of it. However re-wa...

Toy Story

reviewed on June 26th, 2012 07:31AM

Toy Story is a bona-fide classic film that started a whole company in Pixar, it’s timeless in it’s animation, it’s humour and it’s beloved characters. Put simply, this is one of those films that everyone has or needs to see in their life. The p...

Anchorman

reviewed on June 23rd, 2012 05:07PM

Anchorman is a film that just gets better each time you watch it, it’s taken me a good few times to watch it through but I’ve gone from ‘It’s alright’ to ‘This is a really funny film’. Besides, it gave us one of the funniest film characters ever i...

Saving Private Ryan

reviewed on June 22nd, 2012 04:58PM

Saving Private Ryan is a simply amazing film, it’s well-directed, brilliantly acted and the cinematography is stunning. This is easily one of the best films I’ve ever seen and deserves all the praise it gets. The plot is nice and original for a...

Spider-Man

reviewed on June 21st, 2012 01:59PM

Spiderman is one of the better comic-book movies and it’s definitely one of the first to get the comic-book formula right. Is it perfect, no but it’s a fun film and when it comes to these types of movies that’s all you can ask for. The plot is ...

Killer Joe

reviewed on June 21st, 2012 12:58PM

Killer Joe is probably the darkest black comedy film I’ve ever seen, at some moments it’s hilarious and it features plenty of moments to laugh at. But at others there is some of the most brutal, bloody and at some points downright uncomfortable sc...

Red Lights

reviewed on June 16th, 2012 04:58PM

Red Light is probably one of the most average films I’ve ever seen, it’s the definition of ‘Ok’. There are some bits that are good and some bits that are bad and while the ending is actually pretty damn good (easily the best part) it doesn’t make ...

Jaws

reviewed on June 15th, 2012 01:41PM

Ah Jaws, how I wished I could’ve seen you all those years ago when you were still young and people still shat themselves whenever they saw you. You’re a near masterpiece but you’re not as scary as you were back then, although you are still as grea...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

reviewed on June 14th, 2012 05:01PM

It’s difficult writing reviews for comedies at the best of times so imagine how hard it is to write about a Monty Python Comedy which has very little in the way of plot, characterisation or any of that crap people say make good films. Needless to...

The Usual Suspects

reviewed on June 14th, 2012 12:38PM

SPOILER WARNING - I reveal the big twist at the end, you probably know it already but if you don’t you should skip this review. The Usual Suspects is one of those rare films where everything just works, the script is tight, the story is clever,...

Collateral

reviewed on June 11th, 2012 02:18PM

It’s been a good few years since I saw Collateral, I remember it being a cool film and enjoying it but man I did not expect it to be this cool, this is a slick, polished, well-made and brilliant film that I think has become slightly under-rated in...

Predator

reviewed on June 9th, 2012 03:00PM

Predator is a fun movie, it’s got some great directing from McTiernan, arguably one of the best action movie directors of all time, the characters and their dialogue are all fun and memorable and it gives us one of the greatest film villains of al...

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

reviewed on June 5th, 2012 02:13PM

SPOILER WARNING - At some point in this review I will talk about a major spoiler in this film, it’s nothing too big but it does reveal the end to a certain plot thread. I will give warning when I’m going to reveal the spoiler. Ghost Protocol is...

The Town

reviewed on June 2nd, 2012 11:22AM

After the surprisingly great Gone Baby Gone the anticipation for Affleck’s next directing gig was pretty damn high. Thankfully though The Town delivers and while I do prefer Gone Baby, this is still a great film. The plot concerns a group of ba...

Prometheus

reviewed on June 1st, 2012 12:27PM

Now it is true that Prometheus isn’t as good as I was expecting however it’s still a damn good movie and I do recommend it, just know what to expect. The plot of Prometheus is pretty smart, a pattern of symbols is found in the paintings of anc...

Mission Impossible 3

reviewed on May 31st, 2012 03:32PM

Mission Impossible 3 may be the cursed third entry but I found it to be quite an enjoyable film with some really good action scenes. The plot finds Ethan, semi-retired from IMF, is now engaged to his girlfriend Julie. However when he’s reluctan...

Bad Boys

reviewed on May 30th, 2012 03:13PM

Bad Boys is a Michael Bay film back when Bay was making stuff that didn’t give you motion sickness, it’s still action-packed and there’s plenty of comedy to keep you interested and the script memorable. The thing to remember is that it’s not a goo...

The Grey

reviewed on May 29th, 2012 09:14AM

POSSIBLE SPOILERS but I’ve tried to avoid them The Grey is a great film. Nothing more really needs to be said, it looks great, the characters are fleshed-out and interesting and the score is fantastic. This is definitely one of the best films ...

The Descent

reviewed on May 28th, 2012 11:37AM

Note – This review is for the uncut UK version with the dark, depressing ending. Not the crap one you Yanks have. The Descent is a great film, it’s one of the best horror film in years, it’s well directed, it’s violent, it’s creepy and most imp...

Hot Fuzz

reviewed on May 27th, 2012 10:30AM

Hot Fuzz is one of the funniest comedies in recent years and probably the most action-packed. Hell it’s a better action film than a lot of modern action films and while I do consider Shaun Of The Dead to be the better film of the two this is still...

Lethal Weapon 3

reviewed on May 25th, 2012 11:35AM

Lethal Weapon 3 is a good film, maybe not as good as the first two but it’s still an enjoyable film with some pretty good action scenes. The plot follows an Ex-Cop that’s taking to giving confiscated guns back to the streets, to be honest thoug...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

reviewed on May 23rd, 2012 03:00PM

Last Crusade is my favourite of the Indiana Jones films, this is mostly because of nostalgia, I had this film on video and watched it countless times as a kid. This is my first revisit in years, probably over a decade, and it’s still a great film....

Gone Baby Gone

reviewed on May 22nd, 2012 02:59PM

Gone Baby Gone is one of a not so rare breed I call my favourite films and on what I think is my fourth or fifth revisit it’s not hard to remember why, everything just works so damn well. The story is a clever and intriguing one, a lot of twist...

Super 8

reviewed on May 22nd, 2012 10:12AM

Going into Super 8 I was worried that I wouldn’t like it because I wouldn’t relate to the nostalgic aspect, which is why I didn’t think much of The Goonies. This turned out to be half-true, I didn’t relate to the nostalgia but I did like the film,...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

reviewed on May 20th, 2012 01:31PM

Temple of Doom is the weakest of the Indiana Jones trilogy ( I’m not rating Kingdom until I watch it again), it’s still an enjoyable and watchable film but it does suffer from a few missteps. Firstly the story, I’ll be honest I didn’t like this...

Alien Resurrection

reviewed on May 19th, 2012 05:23PM

Now I hated Alien 3 because it was an unnecessary addition to the series, so imagine how I feel about this film. Resurrection is the piece of crap you’ve heard it is, it’s badly made and frankly just boring. To start with the story is absolute ...

Alien 3

reviewed on May 19th, 2012 02:30PM

Christ was this film bad, the acting is mediocre, the story was long and uninteresting and the CGI is just plain shit. God I hated this film. Right off the bat I knew this was going to be a bad film because it’s an unnecessary one, Aliens ended...

Aliens

reviewed on May 19th, 2012 11:30AM

I’ll get this out the way real quick. Alien is better than Aliens. However Aliens is still a fuckin great film. Aliens does exactly what a sequel should, it ramps up the scale and the threat while remaining faithful to the original. It does cha...

Alien

reviewed on May 19th, 2012 07:13AM

There’s a reason Alien is still heralded as possibly the best Sci-Fi/Horror of all time. Because it is, even after all this time it’s still a fuckin brilliant film. Right from the start with its slowly forming title and vast, dark space backgro...

The Raid: Redemption

reviewed on May 18th, 2012 10:55AM

Is The Raid the new Die Hard? No. Far from it. Is it a kick-ass, highly enjoyable thrill-ride? Hell yes, and that’s all we’re really looking for. The premise is simple, 20 cops have to climb 15 floors to take down 1 boss. It’s pretty much a...

Serenity

reviewed on May 17th, 2012 11:20AM

Serenity is a very good film, it continues the story of the rag-tag crew of Space Cowboys and their ship. Is it necessary to watch this film after Firefly, really no, the show ends fine as it is but if you’re looking for a continuation of the stor...

Lethal Weapon 2

reviewed on May 15th, 2012 11:47AM

Lethal Weapon 2 is a good sequel, not as good as the first film but it comes close. Right off the bat we start the film with a double car chase, a near enough perfect way to begin an action movie. We’re reintroduced to Riggs, just as crazy as e...

Point Break

reviewed on May 10th, 2012 02:47PM

Point Break is another one of those movies that I’ve seen and heard a lot about but never seen until now. It’s a good movie but it might’ve been hyped up a little for me. (Damn you Hot Fuzz). The story follows new F.B.I. recruit Johnny Utah a...

The Last Boy Scout

reviewed on May 10th, 2012 12:37PM

When people remember The Last Boy Scout they don’t remember the action scenes – which, I’ll be honest, weren’t all that impressive. They remember the brilliant characters and the great script, thankfully both these make up for the lack of great ac...

American Reunion

reviewed on May 9th, 2012 04:46PM

American Pie is a franchise that I somewhat enjoy, the first film was a great and hilarious look into teenage sex lives and their relationships. The second was another good film (if not as good as the first film) looking at the same relationships ...

Live Free or Die Hard

reviewed on May 8th, 2012 05:05PM

Oh how the mighty have fallen. Many a year ago I watched Die Hard 4.0 and thought it was a better damn good movie. Now, it’s not. To be quite honest I never understood the hate this film got until now, it’s largely forgettable, it’s script i...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

reviewed on May 8th, 2012 02:33PM

Die Hard With A Vengeance was the first Die Hard film I ever saw back when I was a wee lad and my parents didn’t give a shit about what I watched, I liked it then and I still like it now. I actually think this can be rated almost on par with the f...

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

reviewed on May 8th, 2012 11:35AM

Die Hard 2 is a good film, not as good as the first film but what is. That being said, taken on it’s own merits it’s still an enjoyable action film. Set two years after the first film, Die Harder finds McClane stuck at an airport waiting for h...

Die Hard

reviewed on May 8th, 2012 08:19AM

It’s easy just to say Die Hard is the perfect action film and leave it at that but there’s so much to love about the film that you can’t just leave it there. The film takes a slow start, introducing as to John McClane, his wife Holly and their ...

Zodiac

reviewed on May 6th, 2012 09:49AM

I think it’s safe to say that Zodiac is one of those rare films that can be called criminally overlooked. It’s a brilliant film that hardly anyone has seen and is easily one of Fincher’s bests and that’s saying a lot. Based on the real-life kil...

The Bourne Ultimatum

reviewed on May 5th, 2012 03:11PM

Ultimatum is a great end to a great trilogy, it’s the best of the series, it has the best action scenes and it’s one of the best action movies of the past decade. Put simply. It’s brilliant. In the Supremacy review I complained that there w...

Army of Darkness

reviewed on May 4th, 2012 09:41AM

(Take a shot every time I make mention to the first two film) I’ll be the first to say it, Army of Darkness is the weakest of the Evil Dead trilogy, but to be fair with the first one being one of the best and most influential horror films ever ...

Raiders of the Lost Ark

reviewed on May 3rd, 2012 01:23PM

Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a good film, that’s all that you really need to know, it’s thrilling, it’s action-packed, it’s quite funny and it introduces the world to one of the all time great action heroes. Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford is ut...

Mission: Impossible

reviewed on May 1st, 2012 08:56AM

It’s hard to imagine that it’s been 16 years since the first Mission Impossible was released, or that it was directed by Brian De Palma. But it has been and it was and it’s still pretty damn good. The story starts simple enough, spy gets blamed...

Evil Dead 2

reviewed on May 1st, 2012 06:03AM

Evil Dead 2 is a strange sequel because it doesn’t immediately follow the first film, instead it starts off as a remake/reboot of the film with Ash and his girlfriend Linda heading to the Cabin in the woods and accidently unleashing the demon evil...

Fast Five

reviewed on April 30th, 2012 07:38AM

A surprise addition to my Action Movie Blowout, I heard a lot of good things about this film so I thought ‘Why not?’ and checked it out despite only seeing the first two films. Admittedly I was worried I wouldn’t be able to follow the complex stor...

The Bourne Supremacy

reviewed on April 29th, 2012 02:53PM

“What if I can’t find her?” “It’s easy. She’s standing right next to you.” ** Supremacy seems to be the forgotten child of The Bourne Trilogy, people remember Identity because it’s the first one and introduced us to Jason Bourne and they ...

The Evil Dead (1983)

reviewed on April 28th, 2012 07:05AM

I skipped past the first Evil Dead and watched the other two because I heard this was quite scary (and I was a wuss) while 2 and 3 were funnier. Now that I’m older and I’m currently on a First-Time Viewing Marathon I decided to check it out, the e...

The Long Kiss Goodnight

reviewed on April 27th, 2012 02:02PM

The Long Kiss Goodnight is considered to be one of the action greats so I included in my Marathon; after seeing it I wouldn’t say it’s one of the greats but it’s defiantly one of the better ones. The plot concerns Samantha (Geena Davis), a scho...

The Avengers

reviewed on April 26th, 2012 02:16PM

FUCK YES. You know all those good things you’ve heard about this film, it lives up to the hype and more, this right now is my favourite film of 2012 and for good reason, everything just works fantastically. The characters are all great, they...

The Bourne Identity

reviewed on April 25th, 2012 12:32PM

My journey into action greats takes me to a film I haven’t seen in a long time; The Bourne Identity. The result, good but not as good as I remembered. The plot is decent enough, it’s a typical ‘Spy gets double-crossed’ story but it adds in an a...

Lethal Weapon

reviewed on April 24th, 2012 08:17AM

The Lethal Weapon series is one that I’ve never ventured into before, I’ve been meaning to and this journey into great action films seemed to be the right time. And boy was this a good film. The plot comes through piece by piece, this isn’t a ‘...

The Expendables

reviewed on April 24th, 2012 05:23AM

The Expendables is, to use the clichéd phrase, a big dumb action film. However it’s not as dumb as you think and while it doesn’t hold a candle to the great action film it is still pretty enjoyable. The cast is all pretty diverse and they all h...

King Kong

reviewed on April 22nd, 2012 11:44AM

(Possibly the worst plotline I've ever put in) I didn’t think much about King Kong when I first saw it, yeah it was good but it was too long to keep my interest. That was a few years ago and I haven’t seen the film in a while, this time around ...

The Incredible Hulk

reviewed on April 19th, 2012 10:48AM

The Incredible Hulk is definitely the weakest of the Marvel Universe movies, that’s not to say it’s bad it’s just pretty average, nothing really stand out or is entirely memorable. It’s hard to pin down why this is but, it just is. In terms of ...

Warrior

reviewed on April 17th, 2012 07:18AM

I heard so many good things about Warrior but I never saw it in the cinema, I don’t know why it just didn’t seem like a go out and see film. I fully regret that now because this film is absolutely fantastic, definitely one of the best of 2011...

The Cabin in the Woods

reviewed on April 13th, 2012 03:25PM

It's good. Like really good. I mean it's fuckin fantastic. Oh you want an actual review. Well OK. It's the smartest, most original horror film I've seen in years, the plot twists and turns more times than a snake running for office, on...

Commando

reviewed on April 13th, 2012 08:15AM

Before watching Commando I was thinking how hypocritical our society is that when we see a modern day, big, dumb action flick we call it shit but when we see an 80s big, dumb action flick we praise. Now after watching Commando I stand mistaken. ...

High Tension

reviewed on April 11th, 2012 12:29PM

(POTENTIAL SPOILERS) Martyrs, Inside and this. The French really know how to make a good horror film and definitely know how to use liberal amounts of blood. Not that I’m complaining. Switchblade Romance – the title of which I know this film...

Iron Man

reviewed on April 11th, 2012 11:53AM

(There's the Iron Man riff I was trying to repeat above, I failed but it's really hard to speak music through text.) If there’s one thing that makes Iron Man work it’s Robert Downey JNR, the man has got such on-screen charisma that it makes eve...

Thor

reviewed on April 9th, 2012 11:53AM

Thor holds a special place in my Marvel Universe heart, since I’m not a comic book reader I didn’t think much of the upcoming Avengers film, when Thor came out I had a little more knowledge and my interest had grown and – as I said earlier – when ...

Seven

reviewed on April 6th, 2012 04:39PM

I’m throwing up a SPOILER warning because there’s something’s I want to discuss but can’t without revealing major plot points in the film. ** Se7en is one of the all-time great crime dramas, I’m hesitant to call it a thriller but it does hav...

Sunshine

reviewed on April 5th, 2012 04:38PM

Sunshine is an utterly brilliant Sci-Fi horror film with great psychological moments and tense character relations. However it does suffer in the last third of the film from going too far horror then too far sci-fi and not really finding the good ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

reviewed on March 26th, 2012 05:56PM

Return of The King is my favourite out of the Trilogy because it’s the climax of this 9 hour epic, therefore everything big happens here and now, the pieces have been set and shit goes down. Essentially this film is a two hour battle with the othe...

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

reviewed on March 26th, 2012 02:05PM

I’ll get this out the way first, Two Towers is easily the weakest of the trilogy but by no means does that make it bad. It suffers from what a lot of middle films do in that there’s no real beginning and no real end so unlike Fellowship the film c...

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings

reviewed on March 26th, 2012 10:32AM

The Fellowship of The Ring works on two levels for a trilogy, it’s a great start to a 9 hour epic but it’s also great in its own rights and that’s rare to find. The film takes things slow to start with, having a 7 minute prologue to explain the hi...

Shaun of the Dead

reviewed on March 25th, 2012 02:21PM

Shaun of The Dead works because of two things. 1: It’s very funny, and 2: It’s characters are all very relatable. The titular Shaun is the lazy every-man, content with things just being the same and nothing changing, his best friend Ed is the mate...

21 Jump Street

reviewed on March 24th, 2012 11:25AM

Reviewing a comedy film boils down to one thing. Did it make me laugh? In the case of 21 Jump Street, yes it did. The film is actually really funny and acts almost like a parody of cop films and teen films, the main characters, Jenko and Schmid...

The Hunger Games

reviewed on March 24th, 2012 10:38AM

Let’s start this off by getting the comparisons out the way. 1: Yes this film is similar to Battle Royale but it’s different enough for the similarities not to matter. Where B.R. is a balls-to-the-wall murder-brawl Hunger Games actually takes time...

Feast

reviewed on March 21st, 2012 02:47PM

A pretty solid modern B-Movie with some great black humour and quite a extensive amount of gore. The characters are all pretty good in their roles, no-one drops character but other than Tuffy there isn't any stand-outs (Save for Honey Pie for d...

In Bruges

reviewed on March 17th, 2012 04:49PM

WARNING: Spoilers and strong language. In Bruges is one of the darkest comedies I’ve ever seen, thankfully it’s also one of the funniest. The sharp writing, great acting and extremly un-P.C. humour all make it one of my all-time favourites. ...

Fright Night

reviewed on March 14th, 2012 02:49PM

Note – I haven’t seen the original Fright Night. After watching Fright Night three things became apparent. 1: Imogen Poots is ridiculously hot and deserves to be amongst today’s greatest Scream Queens. 2: It’s hilarious watching Dr Who throw ar...

Road To Perdition

reviewed on March 10th, 2012 04:29PM

Like I said abotu two hours ago, Road To Perdition is one of my all-time favourite films, the acting is great, the look and feel of the film is great and it has one of the greatest death scenes in any film ever. Right from the start the film se...

The Ides of March

reviewed on March 6th, 2012 10:38AM

SPOILERS I’ve said frequently on this site that I do not understand American politics; everyone seems to spend more time saying the other guy’s a wanker than actually giving their own policies. Now after this film I can safely say... I still d...

The Dark Knight

reviewed on March 4th, 2012 03:52PM

‘I love that scene in The Dark Knight’ where Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart are talking about taking down the mob and it could almost be a scene from The Departed until Batman flounces in with pyjamas and a bucket on his head and no-one bats an eye...

Trainspotting

reviewed on February 27th, 2012 03:06PM

In case I haven’t made it clear enough already, I love Trainspotting. Everything about this film is fantastic, the direction, the acting, the soundtrack. In fact I can’t think of anything to fault with it. This was Danny Boyle’s second film bac...

I Melt With You

reviewed on February 27th, 2012 09:44AM

Good god was this a depressing film. What started out as a birthday binge celebration became a dark, grim look into male insecurities about their failures and their lost dreams. And I loved every minute of it. This film was great, the direction w...

The Road

reviewed on February 23rd, 2012 03:44PM

On a visual level, The Road is stunning. The cinematography is excellent, showing a cold, grey, deteriorating world that’s been burned and abandoned. The wide shots showing the full force of this unknown disaster are horrifyingly beautiful. Howe...

The Big Lebowski

reviewed on February 19th, 2012 03:09PM

It's good. Like really fucking good. What more do you want? Ok well it's a stoner comedy set in the middle of a kidnapping story, it's got some great dialogue which is endlessly quotable and brilliantly funny at the same time. It's soundtrack ...

The Woman in Black

reviewed on February 15th, 2012 04:04PM

Ugh. Where to begin with this film? Let’s start with the few that were good about this; there were some genuinely creepy moments – such as when Arthur’s looking out the window and we see The Women appear behind him. The fear of the village was ...

Chronicle

reviewed on February 14th, 2012 03:35PM

Chronicle is the latest in the line of found footage films, I haven’t seen enough to hate them but I can understand why people are hesitant towards them. Thankfully though Chronicle manages to use the gimmick to great work, not only as a narrative...

The Muppets

reviewed on February 14th, 2012 02:30PM

There’s a point in this film when villain Tex Richman tells The Muppets that they don’t belong in this hard cynical world. He’s half-right, this is a hard cynical world but there is place for The Muppets. This is the very definition of Family Fri...

Source Code

reviewed on February 11th, 2012 12:18PM

A good Sci-Fi film that's intelligent in it's execution but does get convoluted at points. Enjoyed the film but it did drag at points, it's a 90 minute film that feels a lot longer. There were certain plot points that I didn't like but they were w...

Boogie Nights

reviewed on February 9th, 2012 04:05PM

Like Shame earlier this year, Boogie Nights is a film about sex but hasn’t got much sex in it, rather it is an ensemble piece following a group of pornography workers as they flourish in the Golden Age of Porn then fall into depravity in the 80s. ...

Magnolia

reviewed on February 7th, 2012 11:19AM

Magnolia is one of my top five favourite film – it probably sits around two or three on the list – but I can’t explain why I love it so much, there’s a lot of stuff in this film that a lot of people will hate. It’s an incredibly grim, three hour l...

Clash of the Titans

reviewed on February 5th, 2012 11:24AM

Clash of The Titans is a very good looking film, the effects are amazing - the Kraken looks fantastic - and the locations are gorgeous but that's all there really is to it. It's a good action film but not much else. The acting is, well no-one st...

She's Out of My League

reviewed on February 5th, 2012 09:17AM

I actually had a lot of fun with this film, it had a some really funny moments but it also had a realness to it that made the film that much better. Right from the start we see that Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is the ‘Nice Guy’; he doesn’t take risks and ...

Martha Marcy May Marlene

reviewed on February 4th, 2012 09:04AM

Right from the start of Martha Marcy I could see the similarities to Winter’s Bone, the almost wordless opening minutes show a group of people cut off from normal society, they have their own customs and rules and live how they want to live. We th...

There Will be Blood

reviewed on February 1st, 2012 03:33PM

What makes There Will Be Blood such a great film is pure and simply three words; Daniel Day Lewis. His fantastic performance as Daniel Plainview is easily one of the best I’ve ever seen, it’s hard to tell when he’s acting and when he’s not – if th...

Drive

reviewed on January 28th, 2012 02:08PM

SPOILERS Drive was my favourite film of last year and it’s still amazing on its second viewings. It’s a simple story, heist gone wrong, but the style and aesthetic of the film all carry it above and beyond the usual action film. Right from the be...

Fight Club

reviewed on January 24th, 2012 11:37PM

I’m throwing a SPOILER WARNING up but I think we all already know the twist. “People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.” Fight Club is a film that requires two viewings, the first to get the full story, the second to see all the th...

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

reviewed on January 22nd, 2012 03:03PM

I grew up in the 90s so I didn’t grow up with the coin-eating arcade games and while I do play a lot of video games I never play competitively. So to see these grown men spend hours upon days upon weeks of their lives playing these games is an i...

Coriolanus

reviewed on January 20th, 2012 12:58PM

The first thing that will strike you about Coriolanus is the dialogue. It’s lifted straight out of the Shakespeare play but it’s set in a modern day country – the place is never named but described as calling itself ‘Rome’. At the start the grand ...

Haywire

reviewed on January 20th, 2012 11:37AM

Haywire is, in a nutshell, a pretty good action film, very good for a January release. At the heart of it lies Mallory Kane played by MMA fighter Gina Carano who for someone who hasn’t acted before is very great in her role. She plays Mallory as a...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

reviewed on January 18th, 2012 03:45PM

“No!” Damn this movie was great, it was a smartly written sci-fi story that slowly built up to one of the best action films of recent years. Andy Serkis once again puts in a brilliant performance as Caesar, everyone of his expressions is life...

Captain America: The First Avenger

reviewed on January 14th, 2012 01:48PM

I can say with very little doubt that Captain America is probably the best of the Marvel Movie Universe so far, it’s got a perfect blend of action, humour and drama as well as a great performance heading the whole project. Putting the story in th...

Shame

reviewed on January 13th, 2012 10:13AM

Wow Two films into 2012 and I may have just found my favourite of the year. Shame is fantastic, the performances and direction are some of the best I’ve seen in recent years. It is easily one of Michael Fassbender’s best roles, certainly his br...

War Horse

reviewed on January 12th, 2012 10:05AM

As I’ve mentioned before I had no intention of seeing War Horse, I heard it was good but it wasn’t on my most anticipated list. How stupid a decision that was? War Horse was fantastic, a deeply moving, feel-good film following the trials and tri...

Kill List

reviewed on January 10th, 2012 10:09AM

(POSSIBLE SPOILERS) This is going to be a short review because even half an hour after I finished watching it I'm still struggling to put my head around this film. Was it good? Very much so. Did I enjoy it? Mostly. The problem arrives in the fina...

Sucker Punch

reviewed on January 8th, 2012 02:24PM

I’d heard a lot of things about Sucker Punch before seeing it, mostly bad but there was some good amongst it all so out of curiosity I decided to check it out. The verdict – pleasantly surprised. Now I went into Sucker Punch not expecting a mast...

Animal Kingdom

reviewed on January 1st, 2012 04:10PM

Animal Kingdom, to me, is a film of two halves, the first half is very fast and follews Josh as he tries to have a normal life amoungst his criminal uncles and grandmother. The second half, around the second uncle's death, is a lot slower and stil...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

reviewed on December 28th, 2011 11:31AM

WARNING – MAJOR SPOILERS. Within the first 20 seconds of the film you start to hear the electrical metal beat of The Immigrant Song, the images in front of you cut and twist to show oil and fire, humans and insects, merging as one and Karen O’s...

50/50

reviewed on November 27th, 2011 01:18PM

50/50 is a film I went into knowing it would be good but what I didn’t know was how much I would enjoy it. What made the film so great to me is the same reason why I enjoyed Bridesmaids in that there’s a lot of heart; these are real situations tha...

127 Hours

reviewed on October 20th, 2011 08:58AM

I'll start this review with a statement, I love Danny boyle films, I think he's one of the greatest directors of all time and possibly the best British directors of the modern age. Take this review for what it is but I might be a little bias. I...

Blue Valentine

reviewed on September 8th, 2011 02:09PM

Fuck. Watching this film was one of the most emotionally draining experiences of my life. Seriously watching these two people and their once great relationship fall to pieces in front of you will depress the hell out of you. The film starts near...

Antichrist

reviewed on September 1st, 2011 03:00PM

Shit is FUCKED UP. First half fine, a little weird but fitting, the Chaos fox is pretty cool. Second half (Around the blood-cum scene) fucking weird as shit. Bitch is crazy.

The Karate Kid

reviewed on September 21st, 2010 08:56AM

(Please note that I am not using character names as I can't remember them and don't want to look them up) Now I'm not one for remakes, 70% of the time they're made by fanboys who are too attached to the source material to improve the story or cha...

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