#HateFilms: The Karate Kid
Our final instalment in the Michael Owen film club is this karate klassic from the director of Rocky. Undeterred by Owen’s future review of Rocky (“It’s rubbish”), director John G. […]
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Creed II
Heavyweight champ Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan) steps back into the ring to take on Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), son of Ivan (Dolph Lundgren) – the former Soviet champ who […]
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
I’d like to start this review by crediting Cineworld for trying to resolve the age-old subbing vs. dubbing debate once and for all by attempting to screen a Japanese film […]
8 Mile
Essentially Saturday Night Fever with hip-hop, 8 Mile stars Eminem as B-Rabbit, an aspiring rapper living in a trailer park outside Detroit. Eminem’s semi-autobiographical drama follows a tried-and-tested template, the only […]
Friday Night Lights
Having recently watched all 5 seasons of Friday Night Lights in what I can only assume is record time, I went back to the 2004 movie that predicated this excellent TV show. This […]
Staying Alive
Well you can tell by the way it’s Rocky-lite / that Stallone made this piece of shite Music loud, the plot is dumb / the dance scenes aren’t even that fun It’s not alright, not ok / in […]
Creed
Nothing to do with the Christian rock band of the same name, Creed is the latest Rocky movie, in which the franchise comes Full Circle. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is […]
Cliffhanger
Rocky goes to the Rockies in this 1993 mountaineering actioner starring Sylvester Stallone. When a group of incompetent criminals steal three suitcases full of cash, which were being transported from a place […]
Conan the Barbarian
Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on Darth Vader, in this 1982 fantasy adventure. Even by Arnie’s standards, this is one bizarre movie. It opens with the quote “That which does not kill […]
Whiplash
From the writer of The Last Exorcism Part II comes Whiplash – the Oscar-nominated story of a young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and his ruthless teacher (J.K. Simmons). The two […]
