Analysing the cult status of John Carpenter’s ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ (1986)

And now for something completely different… an essay I wrote a couple years back during my film degree at Uni.

The Walking Dead ‘Still Gotta Mean Something’ Review

It’s back. The Rick Grimes murder coat has returned. Whenever Rick puts on the coat people die. This episode is no different but for once I found myself not on the side of Sheriff Rick Grimes…

X-Men: Apocalypse Review (Mild Spoilers)

“Everything they’ve built will fall! And from the ashes of their world, we’ll build a better one!” Following up Days of Future Past was never going to be an easy job but if anyone was going to do it right then you’d think it’d be Bryan Singer (director of DoFP, and X-Men 1 and 2). Unfortunately X-Men: Apocalypse never really lives up to it’s […]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Review

“My name is Max. My world is fire. And blood.” A lot has changed since George Miller’s first Mad Max film back in 1979. Firstly, Mel Gibson is no longer the star in the latest film in the ozploitation franchise that kick started his career. Instead he’s been replaced by Tom Hardy who does the whole tough […]

The 10 Best Movie Shootouts

The movie shootout might be one of the most popular and recurring scenes in movie history. Any genre of film can contain a shoot out and most of the time movie shootouts are pretty poor. It might just be one dude shooting at another dude without any energy or life to it, or worse, it’ll have […]

100 Words or Less – The Mask of Zorro

Title – The Mask of Zorro Released – 1998 Director – Martin Campbell Starring – Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Mask of Zorro is a classic swashbuckling tale from the seasoned director behind some of the best Bond films. Hopkins stars as the ‘classic’ Zorro and Banderas is the young upstart he trains to take up the mask […]

‘Only You’ – A Short Film

“All I needed was the love you gave.” In between writing reviews for this blog and studying at University, I and Jack like to make short films. They aren’t made with a budget of any sort and are more a bit of fun than anything else. They’re not to be taken seriously, and they’re very low […]

Interstellar (2014) A Not Too Spoilery Review

“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” Let’s get this out of the way first. I’m part of the minority of people who think that Christopher Nolan is ever so slightly overrated. Yeah The Dark […]

Doctor Who ‘Kill The Moon’ Review

“I’ll smack you so hard you’ll regenerate!” Like Listen before it, Kill the Moon is certainly a love it or hate it kind of episode. In fact that’s the overall feeling of the series a whole – it’s the Marmite season. While I have enjoyed every episode of the series so far, I know people that have hated them […]

100 Words or Less – Lord of War

Title – Lord of War Released – 2005 Director – Andrew Niccol Starring – Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Ian Holm Review – Lord of War follows arms dealer Yuri Orlov from the beginning of his career running guns throughout his life. The always amazing Nicolas Cage plays Orlov, a not-so-evil man doing an evil job. As he wrestles with his […]