Film Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
byWritten by Ben Isbel Originally published 6 May 2019 In 2000 Nintendo abandoned the feature where a Pokémon would follow your character around from…
Ryan Reynolds
Film Review: Deadpool 2 (2018)
byWritten by David Nagle Originally published 16 May 2018 In 2016 in these very pages I wrote about how Deadpool was breaking the dull,…
Film Review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)
byWritten by David Nagle Originally published 30 August 2017 The Hitman’s Bodyguard is what I like to call a collage of a movie. It’s…
Film Review: Life (2017)
byWritten by Ben Isbel Originally published 23 March 2017 A good sci-fi looks into the future and tells you what could be. A great…
Film Review: Deadpool (2016)
byWritten by David Nagle Originally published 8 February 2016 Thousands of words can be exhausted on what’s wrong with superhero movies right now, but…
Film Review: Mississippi Grind
byWritten by David Nagle Originally published 8 December 2015 There’s little better advertising for the writing of a character and an actor’s performance than…
Film Review: Woman in Gold (2015)
byWritten by Claire Robson Originally published 21 May 2015 In Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altman, a Jewish refugee who fled Austria for…
Film Review: Turbo (2013)
byWritten by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 19 September 2013 There’s definitely something amusing about watching a snail line up to compete in the Indy…
Film Review: R.I.P.D (2013)
byR.I.P.D desperately strains to get laughs where it can and they only really come from Roy and Nick’s avatars, a Victoria’s Secret model and a short, elderly Chinese man respectively. But even then, the joke is milked way too much and by the end the audience is so unbelievably sick of it.
Film Review: The Croods (2013)
byIn all seriousness, what really elevates this movie is the attention to detail and visual splendour we have come to expect from big budget animation. Every hair, eye-twitch, leaf and breeze has been accounted for in this spectacular 98-minute action reel/nature documentary.