This week we saw the Stephen Chbosky film, Wonder, based on the best-seller by R.J. Palacio. It’s a heartwarming drama about a young boy called August ‘Auggie’ Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) a boy with a strong facial deformity from childbirth, who has been homeschooled most of his young life, is now to enter into school life, as his family feel he needs to do this to experience … [Read more...]
Was Money Monster A Rental Well Spent?
This week we saw Money Monster, the new film from director Jodie Foster. The film seemed very topical with its themes of being led by the media and the greed of big corporations. The film concerns a TV show called Money Monster, in which Lee Gates (George Clooney) advises his audience on how to invest their money, in particular stocks and shares. His live show is … [Read more...]
Illness on screen! A prescription for Box Office Success?
This week, Facebook highlighted that we had watched The Fault in our Stars A Teen Romantic Drama about illness, in this instance, sufferers with cancer, a year ago! What was a coincidence was that this week’s film rental was Miss You Already, again a film about someone coming to terms with being diagnosed with cancer. Films dealing with illness, terminal or not as well as … [Read more...]
Winters War: The Huntsman returns Thor another adventure
In 2012, We got 2 live action Snow White films that could not be more completely different. We had Mirror, Mirror with Julia Roberts & Lily Collins from Director Tarsem Singh,who was probably best known for the Jennifer Lopez SciFi Horror The Cell. We actually thought this was a lot of fun and a lot better than we expected. We also had Snow White and the Huntsman … [Read more...]
Bringing New Life To Animated Favourites
Over the last couple of months, we have seen images revealed for Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book directed by Jon (Iron Man) Favreau This is a live action version of the 1967 animated film of the same name, and this seems to be the newest Hollywood trend as this will not be the first. CGI animals will be used using motion capture VFX and it has a very impressive … [Read more...]