Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg’s second film in 3 months is Ready Player One, written by dodgy bearded poet Ernest Cline (writer of the best-selling novel) and Zak Penn, who presumably combine to form […]
Tag Archives: action
Pompeii
We continue our masochistic foray into the world of Paul W. S. Anderson with Pompeii, his 2014 action spectacular that can best be described as a malodorous eruption. More disaster than movie, […]
Resident Evil
This 2002 video game movie is not to be confused with President Evil, though it is made with Trumpian levels of incompetence. Resident Evil is a fittingly boring name for […]
The Commuter
Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra once said “I only do original work,” apparently forgetting that he made Goal II: Living the Dream, the House of Wax remake and 5 identikit Liam Neeson […]
Fantastic Four (1994)
We recently reviewed After Earth, in which we concluded that the desire to humour a spoilt rich kid is not a well from which a quality film can spring. But […]
Green Lantern
A fighter pilot with a bad attitude (Ryan Reynolds) gets abducted by aliens who give him the power to create anything he can imagine. So he obviously couldn’t imagine a […]
Jupiter Ascending
There was a time when the Wachowskis were hot property in Hollywood, but now it’s hard to hear their name without hearing ‘watch out, skis!’. Well there are no skis […]
The Banquet
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is transported back 2,000 years to the opulent surroundings of ancient China, where trouble is brewing in the imperial court. The Crown Prince Wuluan (Daniel Wu) is in […]
Godzilla (1998)
1998 was not a great year for films. Top at the box office was Armageddon, a film so bad Michael Bay apologised for it. Elsewhere in the top ten are […]
Seven Samurai
The tale of the Seven Samurai is one that’s been told many times in different forms, to the point that the essence of the story; a poor village hires seven […]
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