What would Joe Average do if really given superpowers? This is the question South Korean director Sang-ho Yeon posits in his film Psychokinesis, which deals with a lowly security guard who finds himself gifted with extraordinary powers and then must decide how to use them. With Marvel and DC duking it out to see who…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) – Review
When it comes to computers with artificial intelligence Hollywood has mostly been in the camp of “This is a really bad idea,” with such notable examples being the murderous Hal 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the more recent entry in the genre the duplicitous Ava from Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, but…
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – Review
With eighteen Marvel movies leading up to this point one can’t help but be a little stoked to see the superhero team-up to end all team-ups. If you thought it was cool seeing Spider-Man and the Black Panther mixing it up with The Avengers during Captain America: Civil War, this film will blow your socks…
Condorman (1981) – Review
Bondmania was still a fairly big thing throughout the 70s and 80s, with Roger Moore taking the character in a broader more comedic direction, and even though by the end of the decade entries like Moonraker had gotten a bit too ridiculous – and by that I mean downright stupid at times – they still…
Rampage (2018) – Review
The number of good movies based on video games can be counted on one hand, even if that hand has lost a couple of fingers due to poor fireworks handling, but director Brad Peyton teams up with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to give us a balls-to-the-wall action movie that is easily one of the best…