I have very mixed feelings following The Rise of Skywalker, the concluding chapter of not just another trilogy of Star Wars movies but also the conclusion of the Skywalker saga. Starting this trilogy, I was comforted by the familiarity presented in The Force Awakens and I felt that movie got the balance right between it’s […]
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I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how big a hit 2013 movie Frozen was. For a long while after it was released, you couldn’t go on social media, or even turn on a TV, without seeing mention of Frozen in some form. And you couldn’t really avoid hearing somebody bash out their
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 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
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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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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I think I was one of the few people that was ultimately disappointed by Spider-Man: Homecoming. After Spider-Man’s impressive and thrilling introduction to the Marvel universe during Captain America: Civil War, I felt Homecoming to be somewhat lacking – big set pieces that had already been revealed in the trailers, bigger set pieces that were
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I really can’t believe it’s been 9 years since Toy Story 3! It’s even more unbelievable to think that the first Toy Story came out in 1995, meaning these beloved characters have now been with us for nearly a quarter of a century! I don’t think anybody really expected, or even thought we needed, yet
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Aside from Avengers Endgame, 2019 is shaping up to be pretty disappointing when it comes to blockbuster movies. Godzilla received a bit of a panning from the critics (although I personally quite liked it), then Dark Phoenix took an even bigger hit in the reviews, which I completely agree with. And now we have a
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A joint cinema trip for all members of Team CineChat saw us catching up with the latest entry in the X-Men franchise, Dark Phoenix. Here are some thoughts from each of us regarding the movie. Review by “MagLeeTo” Boardman Dark Phoenix sees the end of an era for the X-Men franchise, being the last of
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Before heading into Godzilla: King of the Monsters, I saw a lot of wildly mixed reviews online. People were either hating it or loving it, with nobody really feeling anything in-between. Even those cinema goers who were fully prepared for nothing more than a bunch of big monsters fighting alongside insignificant human bystanders were coming
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This week sees the release of Disney’s latest live-action adaptation. Aladdin. Street rat Aladdin and mischievous monkey Abu battle to save free-spirited Princess Jasmine and the people of Agrabah from the clutches of evil sorcerer Jafar. After discovering a magic lamp Aladdin’s life is turned upside down, releasing a powerful Genie who grants him three
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I never really ‘got’ Pokémon. I’ve never watched it, never read it, never had any interest in it whatsoever. I actually gave the game Pokémon Go a shot, as I was already a big fan of Niantic’s previous game, Ingress. But swiping balls randomly at floating animated creatures on the screen? Yeah, not really my
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For an event movie as big as Endgame, we thought we’d put together a combined review. It’s really more a collection of our feelings and reactions to the movie, and as such you won’t find any spoilers from us here. If you’ve seen it, we’d love to hear what you thought about it in the
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Shazam is the latest DC superhero to land himself a standalone movie and continues to highlight the fact that these self contained DC offerings really do seem to be a lot better than their rushed ensemble movie output. It also shows how much better they can be when straying from the traditional dark DC gloom
Following the traumatic and devastating events of last years Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel finally arrives on our screens with huge expectation, anticipation and excitement. As Nick Fury was reduced to dust in the final moments of Infinity War, along with half of all living things in the universe, we saw that he’d just managed
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