Tag Archives: Review

San Andreas

June 3, 2015 no comments
Disaster Movies as a genre never seem to fully go out of favour and each year we get one or two new ones to add to the mix. In recent years we have mainly been supplied with alien invasion scenarios ...

Predestination

October 3, 2014 no comments
Predestination is the third film from the writer/director twins Michael and Peter Spierig. Here they have adapted a 1950’s sci-fi short by the author Robert Heinlein called All You Zombies that...

22 Jump Street

June 22, 2014 no comments
I am relatively new to the Jump Street phenomenon. The first outing for the hapless thirty year old undercover teenagers completely passed me by. But when I saw the trailer for the most recent offeri...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

May 23, 2014 no comments
The near future is an apocalyptic wasteland. Giant robots known as Sentinels exist to eradicate the mutant race. Those that are left survive day to day, hoping for a way to end the nightmare. Kitty P...

Gravity

October 12, 2013 2 comments
Anyone who watched the trailers for Gravity when they appeared much earlier this year would have been more than a little excited. The gut wrenching visuals revealed in the preview promised so much. I...

Star Trek: Into Darkness

May 10, 2013 1 comment
It feels like an age since I wrote the preview for Star Trek: Into Darkness and my excitement has been building steadily given just how much I enjoyed the 2009 reboot to the franchise. Once again J J...

Star Trek IX: Insurrection

May 8, 2013 no comments
Insurrection is the ninth film outing for the starship Enterprise and her crew. Following on from the critical success of the first ‘Next Generation’ film Star Trek: First Contact, once a...

Argo (2012)

November 7, 2012 5 comments
Ben Affleck never seemed to be anyone’s favourite actor. Not only did he feature as a punchline to a song in Team America, he seldom gets credit for the Oscar he won alongside his writing partn...

X-Men: First Class

July 3, 2011 no comments
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of...