So, another week, another disappointment at the cinema. This week, it’s the turn of The Predator. For the first 40 minutes or so though, I actually really enjoyed this latest installment of a franchise that has always struggled to match the original. Some interesting ideas and characters are introduced and there’s a healthy dose of […]
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Final Space flashed up a few times as a recommended for me show on Netflix. As the trailer automatically played, it came across as some kind of Futurama/Rick and Morty wannabee, with annoying characters. So I ignored it, until one day I just decided to give it a go. And, it was slightly annoying for
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After recently reading a fair few uncomplimentary critic reviews for Christopher Robin, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this. But, I was actually pleasantly surprised. And my wife absolutely loved it! The movie begins with Christopher Robin as the child we all know from the stories. He’s having a farewell tea party with Pooh
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While I’m a massive fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I never really seem to get on so well with the Marvel TV shows. I get bored, frustrated or just run out of patience with the TV format, with Luke Cage being my longest run so far at 8 episodes. I decided to give Cloak
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It’s Tom Cruise, it’s Mission Impossible… Before heading in to watch the latest in what has now become the most consistently good movie franchise, I was already at Infinity War levels of excitement. The positive buzz and reaction online was outstanding. I knew I was in for a treat. And I wasn’t disappointed. Fallout is
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It’s hard to believe that the original Incredibles movie is now 14 years old. It was, and still is, a fun, original and highly enjoyable superhero movie that was always deserving of a sequel. I re-watched it recently with my daughter who had never seen it, and despite it’s age, and the fact that we’ve
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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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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
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
The Shape of Water really is one of those movies where I feel the trailer doesn’t really do it justice. From seeing the trailer, I wasn’t really sure how much I was going to enjoy the movie. Like I’m sure many others will be, I was persuaded that I might be wrong by the 13
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Coco is one of those movies where I feel the trailer doesn’t really do it justice. Even now, having actually seen it, I still feel the trailer makes it look like another average animated movie. But similar to previous Pixar offering ‘Inside Out’, this goes so much deeper than that. And it turns out to
