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Bit of a pantomime, wasn’t it? There was something fundamentally weird about the idea of Tom Cruise (a 60 year old) playing football on a beach with a bunch of 20-somethings, and out-flying them, better-withstanding physical endurance, having better eyesight, AND also witnessing him rekindling a relationship with someone at least closer to his own…
Digital restoration release on the big screen – another chance to revisit a film of childhood in definition far greater than I’d ever seen, and in this case than the film producers had probably ever intended. I’d forgotten about how fractious the whole Star Trek film franchise was following the polished high-budget turd that the…
This genre flick goes beyond being a film into being a bona-fide cinema classic, but on THIS occasion I saw it as a digital restoration at the Bristol IMAX as part of 20th Century Flicks’ Forgotten Worlds film festival. Pure early-80’s Australian post-apocalyptic sci-fi, in a world with little to no exposition and a sense…
Total 90s cornerstone, this. Was it the last time Dan Aykroyd played a character in a film that wasn’t just Dan Aykroyd? The thing that struck me most on this watch (other than the visible 90sisms which at the time seemed like perfectly normal life) was the apparent ease with which Cusack would declare “I…
Turns out the world needed another Batman movie. Who knew. This time it’s (naturally) a bit grittier than the previous ones. I enjoyed the home-grown sensibility of some of the costumes & gear, and there’s little point in focusing on which bits seemed contrived given that THE WHOLE THING IS MASSIVELY CONTRIVED. Bad guy The…
This film features opportunities for The Rock to stand in a jungle looking pissed off wearing a khaki shirt. Plenty-silly treasure caper, which whilst predictable (or at least, trope-heavy) was still a good fun ride. Chalk it up as one of the good ones. It’s no Baywatch though.
Basically this was just watching Baywatch again because it was so gloriously ridiculous the first time – except this version had extra bits that weren’t considered good enough to be in the film for the first time around. The good news is that they were on par with the rest of this nonsense, and overall…
Ah, the ol’ time loop film eh? Forever doomed to be compared with Groundhog Day. Except instead of trying to get his end away with Andi MacDowell, this bloke was more interested in not getting the shit kicked outta him.