What movies should you have sitting on your shelf?
A lot of people are unconcerned and downright patronising about hype. In its essence, hype is excitement and passion. It’s teaser trailers about baby Groot. It’s posters of stormtroopers. It’s cutting the trailer for La La Land in to snortable piles and going all Scarface on that bad boy. Hype is pure and it keeps us on the brink of hope that a masterpiece movie … Continue reading Suicide Squad – DVD & Blu-Ray Review
As Miles Teller returns to the cinemas today with the intense boxing biopic Bleed For This, Sarah looks back at his best role and film, Whiplash….obviously. Cinema and music have many things in common. But the most vital component of both of them is that they similarly provide an experience. The kind of experience that really moves you. As goosebumps slide down your neck, the … Continue reading Looking Back….Whiplash (2014)
The original Bourne trilogy were some of the best actions of the 2000s; Doug Liman’s opening installment was a very decent thriller, but once Paul Greengrass took over for it’s two sequels, it became an entirely new beast. We got action sequences beyond belief, tight thrillers that delivered on all accounts, and Matt Damon was the perfect lead. Then in 2012, we got The Bourne … Continue reading Jason Bourne – DVD & Blu-Ray Review
Star Trek is arguably the most famous Sci-Fi series of all time; it’s typically the first thing to come to mind when the genre is mentioned – either that or Star Wars – because it is an icon of pop culture. After several TV shows and several movies, the franchise made a come back in 2009 when J.J. Abrams rebooted the Enterprise into another universe, … Continue reading Star Trek Beyond – DVD & Blu-Ray Review
2016 was the year of stupidity. I think we can all agree on that. A shit-show of a year where hate and moronic behaviour won out over acceptance and love. Between Trump’s bewildering election to people literally being shot for existing, it just feels like we’ve gone backwards by massive leaps. On that list is the complete venom spat out at a bunch of ladies … Continue reading Ghostbusters – DVD & Blu-Ray Review
Some sequels come out 20+ years after their original, and it’s really a 50/50 shot at success. For every Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there’s also a Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Jurassic World. In some cases, it was just too little too late, and that is the absolute best way I can describe Independence Day: Resurgence. The first … Continue reading Independence Day: Resurgence – DVD & Blu-Ray review
