Thursday, 31 August 2017

Guilty Pleasures #39 - Suicide Squad


Hope you enjoyed my little skit, just something I wanted to try out. But to the actual review. This is Suicide Squad


The next in the line of DC movies following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Awfulness, Suicide Squad had a rough production history, with the editing being handled by a trailer house and an effort made to inject more humour into what was a serious movie and only 6 weeks given to the writer to script it.

The end result was divisive but profitable none-the-less, and here’s how I weigh in on it.

Tuesday, 22 August 2017

Mini Review - Reasonable Doubt

It’s time for an entry I didn’t have time to put into Samuel L Jackson month last year, this is reasonable doubt.


This movie largely went straight to DVD and has not met critical praise, but because it was straight to DVD, there isn’t a lot of word out there to make this seem conclusive. Here’s my take on it.

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

#49 - Superman III

OK, so Superman 2 was great, wasn’t it? Only bad things to come from here.


Richard Lester is in full control and it’s time for, *sigh* a more comedic Superman movie. They did manage to make their money back but it was critically slammed and the next entry was done with a different production studio and far less money. But that’s a story for another day, let’s take a look at Superman III

Tuesday, 8 August 2017

Mini Review - The Da Vinci Code


I haven’t even started the review yet!

But yes, you’ve read that title right, this is the Da Vinci Code


So, pre-requisites for reviewing this movie:

No, I haven’t read the book by Dan Brown, I’m judging this on its own merits.

In terms of religion, I am atheist, so I’m not going to dwell on the religious aspect of the movie that has made it so controversial.

With that out of the way, released in 2006, the Da Vinci Code was financially successful, earning nearly $760m on a $150m budget. But critically it was less successful with a rotten 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average 4.8/10 score. It was also nominated for a razzie for worst direction but lost to M Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water (and rightfully so) but my thoughts are to follow.

Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Neeson Month: Mini Review - Non-Stop

This may be a little belated but we have one more review for Neeson Month


And that’s Non-stop.


Released in 2014, Non-Stop was profitable, earning $200m on a $50m budget and earned critical praise, although with a few provisos which I’ll get into because, trust me I have some words about it, and speaking of, let’s begin.