We love a creature feature so when we saw the first trailer for Life, we knew we wanted to see this one. The real question is of course, is it a great space monster movie like Alien or is it another Alien v Predator dissapointment? The cast is great so we had high hopes for this one written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and directed by Daniel Espinosa. A six-member … [Read more...]
Was The Blair Witch Worth Finding Again?
We recently rented Blair Witch from director Adam Wingard & writer Simon Barrett, as we really enjoyed their previous hits You’re Next and The Guest. We missed this reboot at the cinema as also like the original 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, it is a found footage movie. It has to be our least favourite genre, when I saw the original, I threw up and it wasn’t until I … [Read more...]
Can The Conjuring 2 Conjure Up More Scares Than 1st Film?
This week we rented The Conjuring 2, the sequel to the 2013 film about Paranormal investigators Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) once again directed by James Wan. The film opens up with the Warren’s investigating the house best known for the Amityville Horror, it also introduces us to The Nun (who will be getting her own spin-off horror film, as … [Read more...]
Is Split a Return To Form For M. Night Shyamalan?
This week we saw Split, the new film from Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan, a director who started off so well, with films like The Sixth Sense; Signs and Unbreakable but seemed to lose his way with bigger budgets like After Earth and The Last Airbender. We had heard this was a return to form for him, so we decided to give it a chance. Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) … [Read more...]
We Read The Circle Ahead Of It’s Big Screen Adaptation
We recently saw a trailer for The Circle, a film that I guess in part looked like a dark version of The Social Network. You can’t help but notice when the film has a cast of Tom Hanks; Emma Watson; Karen Gillan and John Boyega. With us already deciding we wanted to see this, to help with the wait for its release, we also noticed from the trailer, the film was based on a book … [Read more...]