I have rarely been so disappointed with a film. Not only did I love Kingsman: The Secret Service but the sequel opens with a fight scene played out to Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy. How could a film that used Prince ...
Read More »The Bear and the Serpent by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Bear and the Serpent is the second in Clarke Award-winning Tchaikovsky’s Echoes of the Fall series. Where the first novel found us following a very personal journey of self-discovery, the second novel is far more macro in scope. This ...
Read More »The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
If you thought the first film in this YA franchise was batshit crazy, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet… The log line for the sequel to The Maze Runner reads ‘The maze was just the beginning.’ They weren’t kidding. The world ...
Read More »Magic Mike XXL: Back to the grind
It was relatively quiet on opening night in my local cinema, but one thing was clear: apart from my companion, there were no other men in the room. The first of the Magic Mike films advertised itself very much as ...
Read More »Jurassic World: Your boyfriend’s a badass!
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 ...
Read More »Pitch Perfect 2: Girls run the world
I love the first Pitch Perfect film. It was outrageously stupid and yet easily relatable with its use of generic rom-com and competition-driven tropes. The comedy was gross-out, entirely un-politically correct, and often times straight up bizarre. But I loved ...
Read More »Avengers: Age of Ultron – Too many superheroes, too little time
The first Avengers film was a true majestic feat. It took the idea of an ensemble cast to new heights. The film didn’t consist of just any ensemble, it was full of massive stars in their own rights, with huge ...
Read More »22 Jump Street: It’s the same case, do the same thing!
The film reboot of 21 Jump Street was a pleasant surprise. I assumed it would be awful, trying too hard to cling to old ideas that did well back in the day without really adding anything of its own to ...
Read More »Veronica Mars: The movie – Our story is epic. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined and blood shed.
Fear not lovely marshmallows, this review comes to you completely spoiler free. The Veronica Mars movie came out on March 14th, released worldwide (practically) in selected theatres and in almost every possible digital download format. After a record-breaking Kickstarter to ...
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