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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…
Nowhere near as bad as people might have you believe. Nostalgia’s a funny thing, though. Seeing a film make a nod to a TV show or film series seems reasonable, but seeing a slightly self-indulgent film making a nod to a single earlier film… maybe that’s not it/why. Not awful, but fine. Although I don’t…
I’ll confess to only having seen about 40% of this, through a combination of drifting in & out of sleep on a flight, and being interrupted by the flight having to land. It seemed like a lot of fun though – combining a story from my childhood (including some tangible memories of certain sections of…
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.
This has been in the “to watch” pile seemingly FOREVER, and I’m so glad I got around to it (thanks, COVID!) because it was a great little tale. Screaming out for a sequel (unless I’ve misunderstood the storytelling mode), and yes there’s plot holes – but the world’s a rich one for both content and…
It seemed ambitious to mount an expedition on a schoolnight to the cinema to see a 155 min space fantasy, especially given the quality of sleep I got during Blade Runner 2049. Yet Dune was a surprisingly gripping telling of a quite in-depth book and kept my attention the whole way through. I was surprised…
And then they went to a glamorous place, to find someone. Then there was loads of shooting, and they found the name of someone else, so they went to another glamorous place to find them. And then there was loads of shooting. Etc. It delivered everything visually/viscerally I’d expect from a Bond film – whilst…
Bond For Workgroups 7.0 or something, right? I didn’t remember exactly what the last of the M:I franchise I saw was although I do recall wondering when they dropped from quasi-decent action/thrillers into complete farce. Seems that with this instalment they’ve brought it back around to form, at least. Of course now one second-guesses which…
It’s the third… aaaaah, OK then. You can go into tedious detail about Jackson taking licence with Tolkien’s magnum opus, but there’s no denying that this trilogy is a masterpiece of ambition and scale, and that there’d never been anything quite like it – and I’m hard pressed to think of anything since. It’s gotten…
It’s the second bit of Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍