Top of the Flops 4: R.I.P.D.
The Rest in Peace Department is responsible for hunting down dead souls that refuse to leave the mortal realm. It’s staffed by dead cops from a range of times and […]
Tag Archives: 2013
Top of the Flops 3: The Lone Ranger
In a big screen adaptation of the classic TV series, Armie Hammer plays the Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp plays his friend Tonto, a Native American stereotype. The stereotyping of Tonto […]
Nymphomaniac Volumes I and II
Lars Von Trier once again blurs the line between film and endurance test in this two-parter – the most unpleasant pair since the Kray twins. It follows Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) […]
Carrie (2013)
I recently watched the Carrie remake. I didn’t pay, I hasten to add. It just popped up on Netflix. While I could talk about how mediocre it was, how unconvincing […]
Thor: The Dark World
Since the first film, Loki has formed an alliance with aliens and invaded earth. The Asgardians have fixed the thing that lets them fly through space, which Thor has used […]
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Based on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography of the same name, this biopic charts the life of South Africa’s first black president, from his beginnings as a lawyer, through his leadership of […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
In part two of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, our merry band of dwarves continues its journey to The Lonely Mountain to reclaim their homeland from the mighty Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). […]
Oldboy (2013)
In the 1990s Joe (Josh Brolin) wakes up locked in a room where he is kept for 20 years. When he’s mysteriously released he goes in search of answers…and revenge. […]
Gravity
Three astronauts are doing a space walk on the exterior of a satellite orbiting the earth, but when a debris storm damages their craft they are sent adrift in space. […]
Blog: 5 Reasons Why Iron Man 3 Sucked
I recently re-watched Iron Man 3 in the hope of discovering its hidden brilliance that everyone seemed to see but me. I didn’t succeed in that, but what I did do is […]
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