My wife and daughter started watching Christmas movies a few weeks back now, far too early in my opinion. But when the trailer first came out for The Christmas Chronicles on Netflix, it definitely got me in the Christmas spirit and I just couldn’t wait to see it. So, on a lazy Sunday morning, cold […]
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Assassination Nation really, REALLY wants to shock you. At the start, it even gives out a warning, listing out all the offensive and shocking things coming up, along with a very quick clip of them all. That’s how cool and edgy it thinks it is. It’s all parties and social media, girls are all bitchy,
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A fracking site nearby to a private school nestled deep in the countryside causes a sinkhole to suddenly appear. From which, a bunch of subterranean creatures emerge and begin munching on the teachers and pupils. It’s then up to a group of them to band together and do whatever it takes in order to save
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Despite having 90% less Jack Black (in physical form, he still provides the voice for ventriloquist dummy Slappy), and a complete change of cast, I actually enjoyed this a lot more than the first movie. Better paced, with a more fun cast, Goosebumps 2 takes its time relishing in the creepiness that is Slappy, the
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After losing both parents in a car accident, Lewis travels by coach to New Zebedee, Michigan to live with his uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) in his large, creepy house. Jonathan’s neighbour, Florence Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) seems to spend most of her time there too. They’re old friends, with a kind of love-hate relationship. The house
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OK. I don’t do books, so wasn’t aware of the best selling book that Crazy Rich Asians the movie is based on. I don’t usually do rom coms either, but that only tends to be the ones where they’re the typical ‘boy and girl hate each other and are thrown together until they love each
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The Festival is directed by Iain Morris, who co-created and wrote The Inbetweeners show and subsequent movies. It feels just like another Inbetweeners movie too, especially as star Joe Thomas plays what appears to be an exact copy of his Inbetweeners character Simon, pining for his girlfriend and obsessing over her throughout the movie. The
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In recent years, whenever I go to watch a comedy at the cinema, I come away totally disappointed, and end up going off on a rant about the state of movie comedies these days when I review them afterwards. Mostly, these movies have a very simple plot premise, which they then just try and plaster
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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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Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, sister of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) from the previous Oceans movies. She begins the movie in jail, being released on parole and promising to go straight. She has 45 dollars in her pocket and manages to get to New York, scam herself some free makeup and a hotel room,
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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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
Every so often I head into a movie knowing very little about it. I don’t see the trailer, I don’t read any detailed reviews. What I do see are a lot of positive headlines in my movie related news feeds and I decide to just go for it. Last year I did the exact same
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This year hasn’t been good for the comedy movie genre. Will Ferrell in particular managed to star in one of the worst ‘comedy’ movies I’ve seen in a long time with ‘The House’ and even the anticipated sequel to one of the better comedies in recent years, Bad Moms, turned out to be a complete
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