Over the weekend, The Guest showed on one of the free to view film channels, it was great to see more people discover this 2014 film from the writer/director team of You’re Next, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett. We ourselves only discovered the film when we saw it on Netflix, we hadn’t heard much about it, but having seen You’re Next, a home invasion horror film that had felt … [Read more...]
Can Doctor Strange Prescribe A Great Movie To Watch?
Marvel’s Doctor Strange was this week’s cinema visit. We didn’t know much about this character,but being a fan of the BBC hit TV show Sherlock, we wanted to see what Benedict Cumberbatch could do with another iconic comic bookS character. Now we went into this film, not really knowing what to expect, as it was co-written and directed by Scott Derrickson, who we know mostly … [Read more...]
The 33 – A Miner Drama!
Having enjoyed a great holiday, we caught up with a film we had wanted to see but missed during its cinema run. The film was The 33 based on the real life disaster, which saw 33 miners in Chile, trapped underground for 69 days when the mine they were working in collapsed. The film hits hard with an opening statistics that many miners lose their life due to the nature of the … [Read more...]
Blood Father: Mel Goes Through Parent Hell!
This week we saw Blood Father, a return of Mel Gibson as an Action Movie star, rather than a creator of news for his personal life. The film comes from director Jean-Francois Richet who made the acclaimed Mesrine films. The script comes from Straight Outta Compton writer by Andrea Berloff, based on Peter Craig's novel. Peter also co-wrote the screenplay, having already … [Read more...]
By Grabthar’s Hammer, Watch Galaxy Quest!
We wanted to watch a comedy at the weekend, and we decided to give Galaxy Quest a watch, it’s actually one of our most prized DVD’s, for as well as being a great comedy, it is signed by the late, great Alan Rickman, after we luckily saw him at the stage door, when seeing him in a play, in the London West End. It really is a clever film, having elements of Science … [Read more...]