100 Words or Less – Public Enemies

Title – Public Enemies Released – 2009 Director – Michael Mann Starring – Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Jason Clake, Marion Cotillard, Review – Michael Mann takes what made him famous with films like the brilliant Heat and puts it in the 1930’s. Depp plays John Dillinger and Bale plays the law man taking him down. The film contains some brilliant bank robberies […]

Doctor Who ‘Robot of Sherwood’ Review

“Because I’m the Doctor. And this is my spoon!” The third episode in this series of Doctor Who is perhaps the weakest of the first three. But that’s not to say it’s bad, it’s just that the first two were great and this one is just ‘quite good’. But there were some brilliant moments thrown in […]

100 Words or Less – Duel

Title – Duel Released – 1971 Director – Steven Spielberg Starring – Dennis Weaver Review – The first ‘real’ film of Spielberg’s career, Duel is a great little movie. There’s not much to it, it’s only 90 minutes long and the plot could fit on a postage stamp; an evil trucker torments a man along a remote American road, but it works. […]

Doctor Who ‘Deep Breath’ and ‘Into the Dalek’ Review

‘Deep Breath’ “I don’t know, but I’ll probably blame the English”. Doctor Who is back and it’s better than ever. Well, better than the last series at least. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the Matt Smith years, but by the end of his run things were getting a little stale and the episodes just didn’t […]

100 Words or Less – Insomnia

Title – Insomnia Released – 2002 Director – Christopher Nolan Starring – Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank Review – Christopher Nolan’s follow up to his brilliant first film Memento is perhaps his best ever. Unlike most Nolan films there’s no gimmick to Insomnia, and at first it seems like a standard police procedural. But things soon go wrong for city cop Pacino as […]

100 Words or Less – Identity

Title – Identity Released – 2003 Director – James Mangold Starring – John Cusack, Ray Liotta, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina Review – At first Identity appears to be a simple, old school, who-dunnit thriller with a great cast. Ten strangers are trapped in a Nevada Motel and slowly start getting picked off one by one, but things soon take an unusual twist. Director […]

100 Words or Less – Event Horizon

Title – Event Horizon Released – 1997 Director – Paul W.S. Anderson Starring – Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Jason Issacs Review – After a special ship, the Event Horizon, goes missing a group of diverse characters are sent to find out what happened. Event Horizon has a really interesting Sci-Fi/Lovecraftian horror theme throughout, making it feel very unique. That’s not to […]

100 Words or Less – Three Kings

Title – Three Kings Released – 1999 Director – David O. Russell Starring – George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze Review – Directed by the nicest man in Hollywood, Three Kings concerns a group of soldiers as they hunt for Saddam’s gold. The film is darkly funny and a hell of a lot cleverer than most war movies while also containing […]

Non Stop Review + And Blog Update

Due to me and Jack writing for other blogs recently, mycreativeramblings has been slightly bare of late. This is about to change, as we are starting a new review series entitled ‘100 Words or Less’ where we will review every film we watch in a limited amount of words. Big releases will still get big […]

Escape Plan (2013) Review

“You hit like a vegetarian!” Finally. Schwarzenegger and Stallone in a movie together. Sure, they were in The Expendables together but not for very long and those movies, however awesome, were basically a big joke anyway. This is the first time we’ve seen them properly together, kicking ass together, and they’ve never been better. Unlike a lot […]