This week we saw Wonder Woman, a female-led comic book film which we had a lot of people sharing their love for. Now I am of an age where I think of Wonder Woman as Lynda Carter from the TV series but giving Gal Gadot’s performance was pretty much the best thing about Batman V Superman so I wanted to give this film a go myself. We went into the film in all honesty with … [Read more...]
We Enter The Dark Universe To See Tom Cruise’s Mummy
This week we went out to see The Mummy, a new film to be part of the Dark Universe movie series with Universal Studios looking to bring all their classic monsters back to the big screen. The Mummy, personally I would have thought would have been done later on in the series when it was more established, given that for most, this was the Universal monster known to most thanks … [Read more...]
Is Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Movie Treasure to Seek?
Today, we went to see the Fifth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Depending on where you live, it’ll either be called Salazar’s Revenge or Dead Men Tell No Tales. Now we have liked the previous sequels but in all honesty, never found any of them to quite bring back the magic of the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl. Well, this 5th film is … [Read more...]
King Arthur: The Legend of The Sword Review
This week we headed out to see King Arthur: Legend of the Sword the latest film from director Guy Ritchie. This is the King Arthur legend in a way we hadn’t seen before, it takes the legend but adds Ritchie’s style, so we have a hybrid of his earlier films such as Snatch mixed with his more recent Sherlock Holmes films. Unlike the 2004 Antoine Fuqua version of the Arthur … [Read more...]
Is Disney’s Moana Something to Moan or Cheer About?
This week’s rental was Moana, an animated box office hit from Disney, that we missed on its cinema release. Set in Polynesia, an island has been cursed following the theft of a stone by the demigod Maui (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) that is the mystical heart of the island goddess Te Fiti! The curse has now reached an alarming situation, as the village crops are dying and … [Read more...]