DIRECTOR: Steven Quale NOW FOR THE REVIEW… In 1996, director Jan de Bont brought us a thrilling display of special effects – which, for the time at least, were pretty damn impressive – with Twister. Unfortunately, more time was spent on the uninteresting, irritating...
DIRECTOR: Michael Dowse NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Straight off the bat, if you’re looking for something that completely reinvents the romantic-comedy genre then your search goes on because you won’t find it with What If. As much as it desire to distance itself from the...
NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The action genre nowadays has seen a substantial dip in both quality and box office intake, particularly when they star old veterans from the 80s and 90s. Stars like Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have all seen their...
DIRECTORS: Damon Beesley, Iain Morris NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The first feature spin-off of the popular British sitcom The Inbetweeners made over £45 million at the UK box office, and not without good reason. Not only did we get a bigger story that nicely rounded out to a...
NOW FOR THE REVIEW… The trend with this summer’s blockbusters seems to be a focus on light and enjoyable fun, compared to last year’s drab and overly-dark mood pieces (Man of Steel and The Lone Ranger being the most obvious poster children). From How To Train Your...
NOW FOR THE REVIEW… By all accounts, Brett Ratner’s Hercules should have been almost dead on arrival. Despite a charismatic lead actor in the form of Dwayne Johnson, nobody had faith that the guy who single-handedly derailed the X-Men franchise could deliver the...
NOW FOR THE REVIEW… If the 2011 franchise reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes wasn’t enough to make you forget about Tim Burton’s infamously woeful remake ten years prior, then Dawn of the Planet of the Apes should throw all existing memory of it back into the...
DIRECTOR: Michael Bay NOW FOR THE REVIEW… By this point, you know exactly what you’re going to get from a Michael Bay Transformers movie: explosions, metal things hitting other metal things, explosions, awkward and sometimes insensitive attempts at humour, more...
DIRECTOR: Jim Mickle NOW FOR THE REVIEW… You have to admire director Jim Mickle’s sense of 80s nostalgia, on full display with his latest feature Cold In July. The terrible mullets, the synthetic soundtrack, the pulpy 80s thriller vibes – imagine the films of John...
DIRECTOR: Dean DeBlois NOW FOR THE REVIEW… By the five minute mark in How To Train Your Dragon 2, we’ve had instances of beautiful CG atmosphere, an exciting and fun action sequence, and an uplifting flying scene involving a young man with his magnificent flying pet...