The fourth movie in ‘The Purge’ series takes us right back to the beginning, introducing us to the days leading up to and including the very first purge. It’s the weakest of the series, and while not exactly a bad movie, you’re kind of left wondering why they even bothered. The site of the new […]
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Before watching Sicario 2, I really wanted to try and watch the original movie again, but never got a chance. I remember it being brutal and intense, with outstanding performances from Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro. I remember it gripping me from beginning to end. But, strangely, I couldn’t remember very much about it
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Occasionally, when buying a Blu-Ray movie, it will also come with a digital download code allowing you to watch your purchase “anywhere”. The slip of paper provided gives you instructions for going online and redeeming your code in order to add the movie to your online movie collection. Over the years, I’ve managed to build
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I’ve just left the cinema having seen the highly anticipated movie Hereditary and I’m in shock. Not because it’s scary, or unsettling, or any of the other things that so many other glowing reviews have mentioned. No, I’m in shock because I don’t think I’ve ever been in a cinema where so many people have
Since all hell broke out in the last movie, the island of Isla Nublar has remained a relatively peaceful place for the dinosaurs to roam free. But now, the islands volcano is set to erupt, threatening their extinction once more, and bringing with it all kinds of questions as to whether man should try to
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I’m one of those people who hated The Last Jedi. I came out of it feeling frustrated and disappointed. After the film of two distinct halves that was Rogue One (first half awful, second half not so awful), The Last Jedi to me was just further proof that they’d managed to break Star Wars. And
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Renee Bennett (Amy Schumer) feels average, and anything but pretty in this world. Clothing store workers sneer at her choice of fashion, suggesting that she should instead venture in the direction of the plus size clothing. Supermarket customers mistake her as just a downtrodden employee, focusing instead on the ‘perfect’ girl standing beside her. In
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After a relatively slow and average start featuring a depressed Deadpool, some standard taking out of bad guys, moaning at Colossus about the X-Men etc, Deadpool 2 eventually slips into gear and doesn’t let up from then on. A number of additional characters are soon introduced, and those that stick around for more than just
Gnomeo and Juliet is a firm favourite in the Boardman house. A clever mix of charm, humour and Elton John songs. Unfortunately, this followup, Sherlock Gnomes, is the complete opposite. As the gnomes move to London, with the blue and red gnomes now sharing a garden together, they get mixed up in some strange plot
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10 years and it’s all been leading to this. And so much has happened in this last decade too, both in the Marvel universe and outside of it, in every day life. I remember watching the very first Iron Man with my brother-in-law, who sadly passed away just a few years later. I remember watching
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I have fond memories of playing the Rampage video game in my early teens. Me and my two brothers, huddled around my feeble ZX Spectrum, each of us taking control of one of three monsters. George the giant King-Kong style gorilla, Lizzie a dinosaur/Godzilla creature and Ralph the big wolf. The idea of the game
Sadly I missed out on seeing Ghost Stories on stage when it played in London’s West End a few years ago. By all accounts, it was a hugely enjoyable and genuinely scary experience, which I would have loved! The movie version is written by the same guys responsible for the stage show. Jeremy Dyson (co-creator
We’re on day 79 of what we assume is some kind of apocalyptic event. A general store is deserted, without power, and in a complete mess. A man and his wife (John Krasinski and off screen wife Emily Blunt), along with their 3 children, are quietly scavenging for drugs for one of the children who
It’s 10 years since the apocalypse was cancelled. The son of the man who uttered those immortal words is Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), currently doing anything but follow in his fathers footsteps. Scavenging fallen Jaegers for parts in order to sell to the highest bidder and living a carefree party lifestyle. His hunt for a
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I don’t really do books. In the last twenty years or so, I’ve probably only read one book from start to finish, and that book was Ready Player One. And I absolutely loved it, reading it pretty much non stop until I’d completed it. As anyone else who has read the book knows, there’s a
I’d not heard a great deal about this Studio Ghibli movie, other than some fairly positive buzz online, so when it hit Amazon Prime at Christmas last year, I quickly added it to my watch list. It’s taken all this time, until a cold and wintry Sunday afternoon in March, for me to finally sit
