Hansel and Gretel
Not to be confused with the really quite dreadful Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, this is a bizarre and unsettling little film from South Korea. It isn’t a retelling of […]
Category Archives: Fantasy
5 kids’ films that scared the crap out of me
Anyone who’s been here before has probably picked up on my love of horror films. I’ve liked them as long as I can remember, and started watching them as a […]
Pacific Rim
[sigh] Where to start with Pacific Rim? Guillermo del Toro, the director who brought us the outstanding Pan’s Labyrinth? Idris Elba, the star of the top-notch BBC series, Luther? How about […]
Hansel and Gretal: Witch Hunters
Hansel and Gretal: Witch Hunters was a truly dreadful waste of 88 minutes of my life. I’d already heard bad things before watching, so I had low expectations, but I was unprepared […]
Bad horror: Jack Frost
The bonkers premise: a murderer (aptly named Jack Frost) on his way to be executed is accidentally transformed into a snowman, escapes and goes on a murderous rampage. So, the […]
Recent round-up: Night of the Hunter; Side Effects; Warm Bodies & Dark Skies
I’ve been very slack with my posts recently so will whizz through a bunch of films I’ve watched since I was last here. Please try to keep up! First off […]
Cloud Atlas
So, last night I watched Cloud Atlas. And what a long night it was. At a lengthy two hours and 52 minutes, this is a shambling, rambling, behemoth of a […]
Elysium
Synopsis: the year is 2154 and the planet Earth is in a right old state. In fact, only poor people live there because all the rich people have buggered off […]
The Wolverine
Synopsis: not to be confused with X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), this film tells the story of what happened to our lupine hero after umm… before he… err… the timeline is […]
Man of Steel
Synopsis: err, it’s a Superman film. Baby Superman crash lands on Earth after being shot into space from his dying home planet by his parents. Baby Superman grows into a […]
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