In 2008, a found footage creature feature hit cinemas screens called Cloverfield! Now in 2016, whilst not a direct sequel, we have 10 Cloverfield Lane which is described as a blood relative of that film. Now, we have to be honest and say we struggle really badly with Found Footage films, suffering from motion sickness from the rapid camera movement so we were not fans of the … [Read more...]
Film Review: Take Me Home Tonight!
This film, directed by Michael Dowse, who made BritCom It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong and the Ice Hockey comedy Goon, appeared in the TV schedule this week. It’s a film that had passed me by, but my interest was perked by seeing Hollywood Man of the Moment, Chris Pratt was in it. Being a RomCom, I took to the sofa with the wife and gave it a go. The story centres around Matt … [Read more...]
We Were Glad to Say Yes to Watching Yes Man Again!
If you put us on a spot and said who was our favourite author, we would say without hesitation that it was Danny Wallace! Every Thursday you will find us heading straight to his weekly Shortlist magazine column: http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/danny-wallace-is-a-man and as if to encourage us, his profile picture includes a Chihuahua! The first time we heard about him was … [Read more...]
The Martian: One of our Favourite Books now a Film
We discovered Andy Weir’s book late, but everyone I knew that had read it and loved it, so we gave it a go, and we loved it too of course! The story is simple enough, a space exploration team on Mars have to make an emergency evacuation due to changing conditions, during which team member Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is struck by flying debris and presumed dead, leaving … [Read more...]
Solace: Farrell and Hopkins see into the future
In a quiet week of cinema releases, a film called Solace was released starring Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell, we hadn’t heard of it before, had not even seen a trailer so felt like one of those many direct to DVD’s films Nicolas Cage turns up in of late. So we were quite happy to let this one pass us by until we read an article about the film where we discovered that the … [Read more...]