A comedy slash cop buddy slash teen drama high school movie starring those two quality actors Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill – what’s not to love… to hate? – Is how I’d usually start one of my sarcastic reviews, but there’s actually a lot I liked about 21 Jump Street. It’s pretty funny, the car [...]
It’s difficult not to be mad at Taken 2 before even having seen it, simply because the marketing team has been so lazy to have left that as its title. Maybe it was the last thing on the to-do list and they never got around to it, but had this been called Retaken or Take [...]
Ahhhhhhhhhh the Rom Com, or romantic comedy genre hybrid, for those of you who dislike the convenience that acronyms have given our oral and written culture. I guess the fact that I’ve now had to explain the term Rom Com with this lengthy sentence has kind of undone any time and space I was attempting [...]
Sometimes I am fortunate enough to have the pleasure of sitting down to a film I know is going to be good. But on rare occassions, that film not only lives up to those expectations, it exceeds them in every way possible, ascending to the realms of celluloid greatness. Ladies and Gentlemen, let 2012 be [...]
Do you ever get a sense of nostalgia, specifically a desire to go back and watch a film you fondly remember from your childhood? If so, go and see a doctor, because you are a madman. Or woman. Or man who thinks he’s a woman, who knows, you’re mad. That movie was rubbish then and [...]
I actually did go see The Expendables 2, but it is impossible to criticise a film that parodies itself so perfectly. My favourite moments in ascending order of awesomeness were: 4: Chuck Norris’ totally worthwhile and completely necessary cameo, 3: Liam Hemsworth appearing just long enough to show off his muscles, but not so long [...]
I’ve never watched a film that was trying so little as Bad Teacher. Films suck, often and hard, but mostly it’s because their energy is woefully misplaced, not because they lack that energy in the first place. Like that old saying goes, never tried is never failed. So I’m finding it difficult to criticise this [...]
If I had a machine that could change my memories, I’d go and make myself forget that I watched this film. But I was so looking forward to it, I’d probably just go and watch it again. And I just can’t handle reliving the disappointment. So, like every lesson, this one had to be learned [...]
For a change, I was really enjoying The Bourne Legacy for quite a while, if only because I didn’t really know what was going on for the first two hours. That makes it sound like I’d be pretty entertained with my head stuck in a cardboard box deprived of all senses. But you know what, [...]
Resident Evil 5 is due to be released soon. Yes, you read that correctly, your computer is not display “S” incorrectly, that is a numerical five. I think I managed to incorporate what is essentially a bad handwriting joke pretty well there, so goodnight everybody! Here’s a series that has gone on so long, even [...]
