I remember really really hating this movie for some reason when I was younger. I can't remember why, I'd have only been 15 when it came out. It's not like I was becoming some sort of film snob either at that age, I was just coming off the back of declaring Godzilla 2014 to be... Continue Reading →
No, it's not. But that comes with the territory. Yes I'm talking about Amazon's Rings of Power TV show and the critisisms of it's lore breaking and general willingness to make change/unwillingness to be a direct adaptation of lore. This critisism online has circulated as the phrase "it's not Tolkein." To be clear this post... Continue Reading →
Ladies and gentlemen, I gather you all to this Halloween review, posted on Halloween night, to announce that I am completely and utterly shocked. They made another good Halloween movie! The first good one (in my opinion) since Rob Zombie's 2007 remake. Looking back on my reviews of the Halloween films, particularly of Zombie's movies,... Continue Reading →
I've been anxious to rewatch this since I saw the 1978 remake a long time ago now, and I wasn't disappointed with what I found. I actually thought, 'no wonder they wanted to remake this', which isn't common given the era of constant sequels/reboots/remakes we currently live in. But no, this movie was a surprise.... Continue Reading →
Ah, Skyfall. The one that went, 'what if we slowly steered Craig's Bond back to what Bond used to be'. This is where Craig's series started to be more cheesy - not that, as I've noted, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace weren't also over the top. But here's where there was a real tonal... Continue Reading →
Describing Quantum of Solace is quite hard, but I think the best way to put it is: Quantum of Solace is a really good film made really, really badly. Specifically edited badly. If you jacked up a neurotic nine-year-old social media influencer with ADHD on cocaine and told them to edit together a Bond movie,... Continue Reading →
I made up the one in five statistic, but the high school drama genre is a strange one; so many high school movies turn out as bland meshes, like clones of one and other, to the point where they can't be distinguished. But every now and again a film comes along that uses the setting... Continue Reading →
I've always been a Bond fan. There are very few Bonds I don't like and only a few I haven't really seen (though many I haven't seen in at least 8-10 years). The only problem is, fun as the franchise is, it's all a bit samey; Bond fights a super villain and sleeps with a... Continue Reading →
Romance and Romcom movies aren't normally my thing, but what made me want to see this movie was mainly Charlie Kaufman's credit as the writer after I saw, and enjoyed, I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). And much like that film, this one largely takes place inside the main character's brain. Also like that film,... Continue Reading →
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