Favourite Films 2018

Thanks to WOM and I getting Limitless cards I've seen a lot more movies this year, the current total (on 21st of December) is 32. The majority have been at the cinema, but I've also watched a couple of Netflix and Sky movies, although none of these are troubling this list. Normally the end of …

Film Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet

It's quite rare for Disney to go for a big screen sequel of one of their animated movies, usually relegating them straight to video, and this is only the third sequel in the Classics series, after The Rescuers Down Under and Fantasia 2000. While Frozen 2 makes sense given the success of the first movie, …

Film Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Some Spoilers)

Man, was this a huge let down. I loved the first Fantastic Beasts movie, an entertaining magical adventure which was full of heart and charm. It won me over in a way that the Harry Potter movies never did, and I was pretty stoked to see this follow up. Unfortunately, it moves away from the …

Film Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

I really tried with this film, but in the end, I just couldn't get onboard with the fantasy adventure it was trying to be. The problems I had with it were numerous, but mainly boiled down to the fact that the filmmakers spent so much time on the visuals that they neglected character, plot and …

Film Review: Slaughterhouse Rulez

I had high hopes for this movie going in because of the presence of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Michael Sheen and the fact that I love horror comedies. The problem is that this film, despite a few nice touches, is a big old mess. The plot is simple, working class lad Don (Finn Cole), …

Film Review: Bohemian Rhapsody

By the end of this film I had tears streaming down my cheeks, and when the climactic sequence, a recreation of Queen's iconic Live Aid performance, ended I almost joined in with the onscreen applause. Basically, I loved this movie, as did WoM, who also got pretty emotional during the viewing, but as she cries …

Film Review: Venom

I didn't have high hopes going into this movie, despite being a fan of Tom Hardy and the Marvel character he was playing. The reasons for my doubts were that this movie had been mauled by the critics and the idea of making a film about Venom that is separate from Spider-Man doesn't make a …

Film Review: Final Score

During an interview with Jonathan Ross I heard this movie compared to Die Hard, which is fair enough given that this has a similar plot of a lone hero going up against a gang of terrorists. But really the film that this is most like is the Jean Claude Van Damme flick Sudden Death, the …

Film Review: The Happytime Murders

Having seen the trailer for this movie I didn't go in with especially high hopes, I thought it would be good for a few laughs, but the trailer appeared quite crude and silly. So, it was a pleasant surprise when the movie began with a film noir style narration and an interesting twist on the …

Film Review: The Jurassic Games

Ten death row inmates are put on a TV show where they have to race each other. The sole survivor will win their freedom. The only problem there are nine other prisoners after the same thing and they can kill their competition. Also, there are dinosaurs. That is a slam dunk pitch right there. The …