Film Review

Lucy (Review)

NOW FOR THE REVIEW… Have you ever imagined what the director of The Fifth Element would do if he sat around his living room getting high on whatever second-rate substance he can find, and then in his drug-induced state decided to put on copies of Limitless, The Tree...

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Into The Storm (Review)

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...

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What If (Review)

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...

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The Expendables 3 (Review)

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...

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The Inbetweeners 2 (Review)

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...

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Guardians of the Galaxy (Review)

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...

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Hercules (Review)

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...

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Review)

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...

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