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Fantasy Island: Delivering dreams and nightmares
Fantasy Island: Delivering dreams and nightmares
It is always a weird feeling when you like a film that other people seem to dislike. You always feel like you want to defend the film to the hilt, but the same time you can’t help but wonder if you are horribly wrong. The best way to look at it is that you like what you like and as long as you like it it doesn’t really matter what others think.
Screen heart-throb KJ Apa tested in ‘I Still Believe’
Screen heart-throb KJ Apa tested in ‘I Still Believe’
Becoming a teenage heart-throb is the dream of every young actor. But while the pull of stardom is very strong, reaching that heart-throb status is never a guarantee of a long and successful Hollywood career.
‘Brahms: The Boy II’ delivers horror classic
‘Brahms: The Boy II’ delivers horror classic
While many might remember 2020 as the year attending a cinema became a thing of dreams, true horror fans may well remember it as the year when pleasant surprises in the genre just kept coming. At the start of the year horror buffs were perhaps most excited about new entries into the Halloween and A Quiet Place franchises, but what has surprised them the most has been just how good movies like The Invisible Man have ended up being.
Bautista on the bounce in ‘My Spy’
Bautista on the bounce in ‘My Spy’
There seems to come a time in every action hero’s career when they decide it might be time to make a family film. For some it works really well! Say what you like about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘Kindergarten Cop’, but it is still a film that will always bring a smile to your face whenever you go back and give it a watch.
‘The Last Dance’ in a class of its own
‘The Last Dance’ in a class of its own
Sports documentaries are often one of the hardest things to watch for most cinema lovers due to the fact that they normally seem to be very black or white. Most sports documentaries have no grey area at all, they have either been put together by a hardened sports fan who does nothing but praise the individual or team at hand or they are the work of a journalist out for blood or the next sensationalist story. The result is often a documentary that goes for the jugular, a film more interested in bringing down an idol than it is to look at the events occurring from all possible angles.
’Extraction’ brings big action to the small screen
’Extraction’ brings big action to the small screen
He plays one of the most recognisable action heroes on our big screen, now Australian actor Chris Hemsworth has turned to the small screen to deliver the film that may just launch another franchise. While the Netflix released Extraction may not be one the films that finds itself in the running for the one newly revamped Oscars it is one of the better action films to have surfaced over the past few years.
Lockdown online movie launches sounds alarm for cinemas
Lockdown online movie launches sounds alarm for cinemas
For film lovers around the globe the past seven weeks have been a very strange time. Right around the world the projectors are not rolling and the cinemas are in darkness. Mind you it has been even stranger for cinema owners and distributors as well.
‘Onward’ puts animated movies back on track
‘Onward’ puts animated movies back on track
Twelve months ago if you asked any film fan if they were excited about any animation films that were set to be released the answer, most likely would have been a resounding, “No.” Hollywood was getting slammed from pillar to post because it was felt that the animated films that it was producing were all mirror images of each other or just another instalment in what were becoming tired franchises.
Vin Diesel runs deep in ‘Bloodshot’
Vin Diesel runs deep in ‘Bloodshot’
One of the films that was most impacted by the COVID-19 closure of cinemas worldwide has been the new action thriller Bloodshot. The film was expected to be one of the biggest earners at the box office in 2020 but when the cinemas closed only days after it opened its earnings were severely impacted to the point that the film didn’t even make back its budget.
Hollywood’s darkest days
Hollywood’s darkest days
They say that the lights never go out in Hollywood. Well if they aren’t fully out at the moment then they are certainly very, very dim. As the COVID-19 virus goes on its deadly wave right across the planet Hollywood and the world’s film industry has become one of its biggest victims.
Down the Nazi rabbit hole: Taika Waititi creates a comedy classic from tragedy
Down the Nazi rabbit hole: Taika Waititi creates a comedy classic from tragedy
Is it okay to ever try to get a laugh out of somebody’s misfortune? How about trying to get a laugh out of one of the worst massacres to have ever happened in human history? It sounds like a brutal question, yet it was a question many were asking after the announcement that filmmaker Taika Waititi was going to be making a comedy that featured himself playing Adolf Hitler while centering on a young Hitler Youth member.
‘Invisible Man’ stands out from the crowd
‘Invisible Man’ stands out from the crowd
There has been a lot of commentary recently about the ‘new breed’ of horror films. The term has been given to films like ‘Midsumma’ and ‘Hereditary’, films that supposedly showcase the ‘new breed’ of horror filmmakers who are now ‘woke’ and incorporate social issues into the horror that their characters face.
Buck to the drawing board Hollywood
Buck to the drawing board Hollywood
If 2020 is remembered for anything in the world of cinema it will be as the year where Hollywood found it was not immune to outside influence. An actress lost a role because she was not transgender and an animated blue hedgehog was taken back to the drawing board all because of public backlash.
The Oscars were an Inhuman Miss
The Oscars were an Inhuman Miss
The red carpets have been rolled away and the gowns are back on their hangers. The Academy Awards are won and done for another year, and while film journalists right around the world have dissected and discussed every winner, every nomination there is something that has become crystal clear in the wash-up, this year might be the year where the Oscars finally see a change occur that is long overdue.
The Gentleman are perfect gangsters
The Gentleman are perfect gangsters
Nobody quite does gangster film the way Guy Ritchie does. Ritchie basically made the genre his own after re-inventing it with modern-day classics like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
Spies in Disguise with ‘no egrets’
Spies in Disguise with ‘no egrets’
A film where a super-hero turns into a pigeon shouldn’t work, no even the notion of such a film would probably have you laughing and wondering whether or not the film deserves to be placed in the same pile as the ridiculous Sharknado. But let the laughter subside because somehow Spies In Disguise not only works but is pure entertainment from start to finish.
Jumanji: The Next Level is Rock solid
Jumanji: The Next Level is Rock solid
Cinema fans rejoice as the true dream team is back. Yes, a team made up of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black may seem like a strange line-up for what is essentially an action-adventure film, but nobody gets things done like these guys do. No one seemed to predict just how successful of a film Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle was going to be back in 2019 and once again people seem caught out but the arrival of the latest film in the franchise and just how good it is.
Rise of the Skywalker will give you Palpa’tations
Rise of the Skywalker will give you Palpa’tations
It has taken 42 years to get there, but finally, the Skywalker saga is drawing to a close. No other cinematic franchise has ever reached the massive heights that Star Wars has and to say that this is a beloved series is under-selling it in a very big way. It is for that reason that J.J. Abrams has had one of the most difficult jobs that any filmmaker could ever dream of, it is up to him to close this much loved chapter in the Star Wars story in a way that will please a legion of fans world-wide.
All girl power but no star power in Charlie’s Angels reboot
All girl power but no star power in Charlie’s Angels reboot
We were promised one of the biggest block­busters of the year, but what we got was a C-grade action flick that didn’t even register a blip at the box office. That really is the only kind way to describe the Charlie’s Angels reboot.
Double trouble: Will Smith meets Will Smith in sci-fi flop Gemini Man
Double trouble: Will Smith meets Will Smith in sci-fi flop Gemini Man
“Know your limits!” is the kind of thing you would expect to say to a first-time director who wants to bury themselves in an overly am­bitious cinematic project. But it’s hardly the kind of thing that you would think a studio or producer would have to tell an experienced, Oscar-winning director like Ang Lee.