Reviews

The Terminator franchise has had its hardships over the years. In truth, it is a pity it is regarded as a franchise. The first film is a wonderfully grungy and taut action thriller with more than a little horror in ...

I enjoy a good dystopian YA thriller as much as the next Hunger Games fan, but there comes a point when I’ve got to say enough is enough. They have all become so samey. Once the initial depressing world is ...

Slow West is a film I went to see with some enthusiasm. The first major feature of filmmaker John MacClean, it won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival, it occupies that heady position of being an independent western and ...

These cute yellow creatures are the Mr. Bean of children’s films. The film, a prequel to the other films in the Despicable Me franchise, is also an inverted equivalent to the Bean Movie. Where he was transplanted from England to ...

Time Salvager is another SF novel that has been massively hyped before it even hit shelves. The book is due to publish on July 7th but has already been optioned for a film adaptation with Michael Bay signed on to ...

For a television series to make truly brilliant binge watching it has to be equal parts well written/produced/etc and guilty pleasure. That might, at first glance, seem contradictory. If it is a guilty pleasure, surely it couldn’t also be well ...

With every year that passed following the HBO series’ successful 8-season run, an Entourage movie looked less and less likely. The series creator, Doug Ellin, completed a script for a feature film back in 2012, but the film suffered production ...

I am fed up with Hollywood churning out remakes and sequels of well-known franchises and previous hit films (and some flops even), but the latest incarnation of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World, has proved some of these franchises still ...

A number of reviews of The Gospel of Loki have talked about it as Joanne Harris’s first fantasy novel. I find that baffling. What about Chocolat and its sequel The Lollipop Shoes? They might not have been quite so ‘out there’ with the fantastical elements, ...

As auteurs, the Wachowskis have some grand ideas. Trouble is, a grand idea needs excellent execution to hold it together. Too much philosophy with high scientific principles and you’ll lose the audience, not enough and the story will never make ...