Terminator: Dark Fate is the sixth movie in a franchise which has now been around for a staggering 35 years. The first of the sequels, Judgement Day back in 1991, is widely regarded by many as one of the greatest movie sequels of all time and for me it still holds up as an incredible […]
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It’s been 10 years since we last saw Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) and our TV and movie screens have since become even more saturated with zombie content. It’s something which even gets acknowledged by Columbus during his opening narration to Zombieland: Double Tap as he
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When we last saw Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), he was driving away in an El Camino car, having just been freed from six months or so of captivity and slavery. It was the final moments of what is arguably one of the greatest TV shows of all time – Walter White (Bryan Cranston) had come
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Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a down on his luck loner, currently taking seven different kinds of medication and living with his frail old mother (Frances Conroe). Arthur fantasises about living a ‘normal’ life, with hopes of becoming a stand up comedian and dating his next door neighbour, and the lines between reality and fantasy
There will not be many people who are not already familiar with some if not all of the life story of Judy Garland. From being catapulted to stardom at the age of 17, playing Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, to her troubled adult life of crippling self doubt, depression and drug addictions that
Ready or Not opens with a gleefully intense and shocking scene. It serves to give us a taste of the kind of twisted games that usually play out within the confines of huge gothic mansion owned by the eccentric Le Domas family, who made their fortune in the board game business. If you’ve seen the
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It’s the near future. Humans are trying to reach out to extraterrestrial life. Veteran astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is working high up on an antenna built with the sole purpose of trying to communicate with aliens. And when I mean high up, Roy is literally in full astronaut gear, as this thing reaches from
The final episode of Downton Abbey drew an average of 8.8 million viewers in the UK alone, it has been shown in over 220 countries and is still popular around the world, therefore it was no real surprise that eventually it would head to the big screen. I think most fans of Downton are drawn
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Hustlers is ‘inspired by a true story’ and is based on a New York Magazine article written by Jessica Pressler in 2015 titled “The Hustlers at Scores”. The tagline for that article was “Here’s a modern Robin Hood story for you: a few strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting, (in their minds) pathetic
It’s fair to say that IT Chapter 2 has been one of my most anticipated movies this year. The trailer, which I’ve probably watched just as many times now as I watched the Endgame trailer, gives me goosebumps every time, and I couldn’t wait to rejoin the losers club for another battle with Pennywise the
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While my youngest daughter was growing up, I watched a lot of Dora the Explorer on TV. She absolutely loved the show and its characters, its catchphrases and the music all ended up becoming a permanent fixture in my brain for a few years. When news broke of a live action movie, Dora and The
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Florida is preparing itself for the arrival of a category five hurricane. As competitive swimmer Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) changes after a session in the pool, she takes a video call from her sister, concerned that she can’t get through to their father (Barry Pepper) by phone. Dad still lives in their old hometown, right
Gerard Butler returns once again as secret service agent Mike Banning in this third entry in the ‘fallen’ series. The first movie, Olympus Has Fallen (not to be confused with White House Down, the Channing Tatum movie which was also released in 2013 and also covered a similar plot!) saw Banning trapped in the White
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Obviously I’m not familiar with the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books that this movie is based upon – a series of three books containing short horror stories for children and drawing heavily on urban legend and folklore for it’s subject matter, with the first being published in 1981. Apparently, the series is
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Quentin Tarantino is known for his lengthy, self-indulgent movies – some of which I’ve loved, some not so much. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a nostalgic homage to 1960s Hollywood and, at 2 hours 41 minutes, it is certainly lengthy and self-indulgent. But, despite some outstanding performances, it’s probably at least an hour
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Disney’s 1994 animated version of The Lion King was a huge hit. Not only did it win Academy Awards for original score (courtesy of the amazing Hans Zimmer) but also for original song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” by Elton John & Tim Rice. It also won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture
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