Fast & Furious 8 (2017) – Film Review I remember watching the original The Fast and The Furious way back in 2001. Back then it was dismissed as a pale copy of Keanu Reeves’ Point Break (1991) despite being inspired by a magazine article by Ken Li in Vibe magazine way back in 1998 about […]
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Hard to explain Boss Baby has imagination but lacks charm
The Boss Baby – Film Review (2017) Wrapped up in a hard to explain plot, The Boss Baby is a colourful animated film that’s liberally littered with modern references for grown ups as most Dreamworks animated films are. It’s actually based on a 2010 children’s book of the same name by Marla Frazee but obviously […]
Ghost in the Shell is decent enough but offers very little new in a glossy live-action adaptation
Ghost in the Shell (2017) – Film Review Ghost in the Shell is a live-action adaptation of an original Japanese Anime from 1995 set in a future where cyberpunk was all the rage. Cybernetic augmentations are commonplace in the future and work on a full cyborg is proceeding at pace in one of the megacorporations […]
Life is an interesting evolution of the space horror genre but it can’t escape the shadow of Alien
Life (2017) – Film Review With the release of Life, we appear to have Fox’s Deadpool to thank for a return to more explicit genre movies which include the recent release of Logan. Life is the latest in the line of films that aren’t afraid to exclude younger kids and use the higher rating to […]
Beauty and the Beast is the latest live-action Disney adaptation; it lacks spark but will still prove popular with its target audience
Beauty and the Beast (2017) – Film Review Beauty and the Beast certainly hit the right notes for the target audience (young girls), of which there were plenty in the screening which I attended. There was laughter, applause and more than a few tears shed at the end of this live action retelling of the classic […]