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Review - Transformers: The Last Knight

Review – Transformers: The Last Knight

Here we go. Optimus Prime is missing…in spaaaaaaaaace. Back on Earth the Transformers have finally been outlawed after tearing chunks out of every city on earth over the last four films. Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) is currently hiding from the governments of the world and protecting the autobots as best he can. Somewhere out in space in the remains of Cybertron, some sort of transformer-witch…

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Review - Baby Driver

The most unique film you're going to need to see this week. Here's the review for Baby Driver!

Described as a ‘jukebox musical action crime comedy’ Baby Driver is the latest unique film from writer and director Edgar Wright, who you may know as the director of the likes of Shaun of the Dead and Hot fuzz. A young man going only by ‘Baby’ (Ansel Elgort) operates as a getaway driver for a powerful crime boss (Kevin Spacey) on his continuing robberies. Unique in his ways due to a hearing…

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Review - The Mummy (2017)

Somewhere out there Brendan Fraser is having a right laugh. Here's my 'The Mummy' review.

Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) is a soldier in Iraq but spends his time secretly searching for antiquities to sell on the black market. After engaging some insurgents in a small town, an airstrike blows open a hole in the ground and reveals a hidden Egyptian tomb. Archaeologist Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) shows up to investigate because this tomb simply should not exist and something is off and…

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Review - Wonder Woman

She's a wonder, WONDER WOMAAAAAAAAN

Fresh from being introduced to the DC cinematic universe in Batman vs Superman – and arguably one of the few good things about the film – Wonder Woman gets her own big screen feature to tell us the story of where she came from. Raised by a race of female warriors known as the Amazons, Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) lives on the hidden island of Themyscira. After the god of war Ares rebels against his…

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Review - Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge

Review – Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge

I have to confess that I’ve always had a soft spot for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The first – in my opinion – is a classic, the second and third were good fun and I enjoyed Ian McShane in the fourth. Through all of that I thought they were fun to watch and I’ve gone back to watch the original a few times since. You might even call them a guilty pleasure. As you can imagine the upcoming…

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Review - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Uther Pendragon, King of the Britons – played by Eric Bana – has just fended off an assault on Camelot by the warlock Mordred. Unsatisfied with his brother’s rule, Vortigern (Jude Law) arranges a coup and utilizes dark powers in order to kill Uther and his wife. Their young son escapes the massacre and drifts away in a boat before being picked up by someone down river. Growing up in a brothel in…

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Review - Alien Covenant

Review – Alien Covenant

The crew of the colony ship Covenant are on their way to a distant planet in the hope of starting a new life. Midway through their journey, the crew get a rude awakening thanks to an energy wave blasting their ship from a nearby planet. Strangely, the planet shows vegetation and suitable environments for supporting human life and potentially their new colony. They decide to investigate and find a…

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Review - Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2

After calling vol.1 my favourite film of 2015, Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2 has work to do.

Before the original Guardians of the Galaxy was released back in 2015, most of the viewing public had written off the film as a flop. No one was particularly familiar with the characters and it looked like it was going to be an over packed mess. Instead we ended up getting what was arguably one of the films of the year that was filled with a charming cast and some of the most impeccable music…

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Review - Mindhorn

Mindhorn was released this week, but is it worth a cinema ticket before it ends up on Netflix?

During the 1980’s Richard Thorncroft (Julian Barrett) was known all over England as suave TV detective Mindhorn. Years after the TV show has ended, Richard still believes himself to be an absolute star while everyone else involved with the show has moved on with their lives and their careers. His only ray of hope is a call from police on the Isle of Man. A young woman has been murdered and her…

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Review - Fate of the Furious (Fast and Furious 8)

8th Fast and Furious film. Time to address the bald, corona drinking elephant in the room.

The latest installment in the long running Fast and Furious franchise – the 8th being called Fate of the Furious elsewhere – sees the gang return for more international heist work in lavish cars with big stunts and explosions. Dom (Vin Diesel) has gone rogue, turned against his friends and family and shacked up with cyberterrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron) to steal weapons and other assorted items…

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With the potential to be the horror film of the year, here's my review for Get Out ‘A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend's mysterious family estate’ says IMDB. If you have any remote interest in seeing Get Out, let’s just leave the plot at that and recommend a viewing before it leaves cinemas.

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Review - Ghost in the Shell

That #GhostintheShell remake was way better than I thought it would be. Review!

In the not too distant future, technology has advanced in leaps and bounds. The public regularly improve and better themselves with cybernetics and technological body modifications. Mira Killian (Scarlett Johansson) is the sole survivor of a terrorist attack but when her body is damaged beyond repair, she is chosen for a new project by Hanka Robotics to implant a human brain into a fully…

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Review - Power Rangers

Mighty Morphin' Breakfast Club by way of Chronicle and Transformers. Its not half bad.

Jason Scott is the star player of Angel Grove High’s football team but his penchant for mischief and causing trouble making sees him sentenced to spending every Saturday for the rest of the year in detention. There he meets the popular girl Kimberley, the awkward kid Billy, the quiet loner Trini and the loud and boisterous Zack. The new breakfast club don’t get along at first but end up together…

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Review - Logan

Logan. Review. Here. Can't find words.

After 17 years and 8 other X-Men movies, Hugh Jackman returns as James ‘Logan’ Howlett aka Wolverine for one final time. Set in the near future, Logan currently makes a hopeless and depressing living as a limo driver for whoever gives him a call. No mutants have been born in over two decades and almost everyone he knows is either dead or doesn’t care anymore. Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) is…

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Review - John Wick: Chapter Two

John Wick is back for Chapter Two. More guns. More gun-fu. More Wick. AAAWWW YYEEEAAAHHHH

It’s been three years since word of mouth about the best action movie in ages that went straight to DVD and Netflix saw Keanu Reeves have his most successful film since The Matrix. Reeves stars here again as the deadly hitman John Wick aka Baba Yaga aka The Boogeyman aka the man you send to kill The Boogeyman who also allegedly killed three guys with one pencil. As one character says early on in…

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Review - The Lego Batman Movie

DARKNESS. NO PARENTS. CONTINUED DARKNESS. THE OPPOSITE OF LIGHT. LEGO BATMAN MOVIE.

When The Lego Movie was released a few years ago, everyone was taken by surprise by just how fun and enjoyable it was. One of the surprising features was its interpretation of Batman (voiced by Will Arnett). Instead of looming over the night and being dark and mysterious, he writes his own rock songs and like to tell everyone how cool he is and how everything should be black. It was brilliant,…

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Review - Split

A fantastic performance from James McEvoy breathes new life into M. Night Shyamalan in Split.

Poor ‘auld M. Night Shyamalamalamalam…alan. He hasn’t had the best track record over the last number of years when it comes to writing and directing. The Sixth Sense comes out and everyone thinks you’re the next big thing and your next two or three films are pretty good. Unbreakable became a cult classic and I still find it hard to watch Signs because of that bit at the kid’s birthday party.…