Film Review: Army of the Dead

Zack Snyder's directorial debut was a zombie movie, 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead, a movie that I really liked so his return to the undead genre, especially one featuring Dave Bautista leading a team on a heist in a zombie ravaged Las Vegas sounded right up my street. Unfortunately the movie suffers from …

Film Review: Raya and the Last Dragon

The latest Disney animated movie is a gorgeous, gripping and entertaining fantasy adventure which continues the studio's current hot streak. While it lacks some of the traditional Disney aspects (songs and a major villain) it continues their ability to tell fantastic, moving stories with likeable, memorable characters. The film is set in Kumandra, a once …

365 Film Challenge Part 32: The Twilight Saga

WoM is a few years younger than me, so the Twilight series came towards the end of her emo teens and as such occupy a special, nostalgic place in her heart. Where as I have no connection to them beyond having seen the first movie years ago. Near the start of our relationship we watched …

365 Film Challenge Part 31: Werewolves Special

Film #86: An American Werewolf in Paris John Landis' 1981 film An American Werewolf in London is widely regarded as a classic, a darkly comic horror film about an American tourist having a mixed time on his trip to the UK (sleeping with Jenny Agutter probably doesn't quite make up for getting savaged by a …

365 Film Challenge Part 29: Action Movies

Film #106: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra I've seen the sequel to this but somehow the original totally passed me by, which is weird because I loved GI Joes as a kid, and I love a big dumb action movie, so this would seem to be right up my street. Channing Tatum stars as …

365 Film Challenge Part 28: Mystery Special

Film #97: Murder Most Foul I've never been a massive fan of Miss Marple, I've always preferred Poirot as a character. This 1964 big screen outing is possibly my favourite Marple adaptation I've seen mainly because Margaret Rutherford's performance is totally different. She's a more bullish, louder take on the character, while still keeping the …

365 Film Challenge Part 26: 1940s Special

Back to the forties for this collection. Film #50: The Spider Woman Basil Rathbone returns as Sherlock Holmes for this mystery which sees him deal with a female crime mastermind. Holmes fakes his death to better investigate a spate of murders disguised as suicides. To do this he goes undercover as an Indian officer, complete …

365 Film Challenge Part 24: Jack Reacher Series

Film #95: Jack Reacher Tom Cruise stars as an ex-military copper who investigates after a sniper guns down five random individuals. The sniper asks for Reacher by name, but he's a ghost, having gone off the grid. But when he hears about the shooting on the news he comes anyway. Working with Rosamund Pike's defense …

365 Film Challenge Part 23: Disney Special

Film #25: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure I've actually seen a couple of the Tinker Bell movies before, because they used to have them on the Sky Movies Disney channel and they're quite short, sweet little flicks and WoM is Disney obsessed, which has reignited and fuelled my own love for all things Disney. …

365 Film Challenge Part 22: 1950s Special

Film #55: Father Brown Alec Guinness plays the eponymous priest who is a keen amateur detective. The film opens strongly with the police raiding a building to find a priest filling a safe, returning the items stolen by a parishioner. After that it slacks of a bit into a gentle, pedestrian mystery as Brown has …