Can true love save the day? Well in the 1997 science fiction film The Fifth Element writer/director Luc Besson certainly thought so as that film revealed that love was the key ingredient to saving the universe and now 20 years later with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Luc Besson once again puts…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Punisher: Season One Review
Season two of Netflix’s Daredevil brought everyone’s favorite gun toting vigilante to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and this particular depiction of The Punisher was so well executed that he completely overshadowed the Elektra storyline, and once Frank Castle was presumed dead what plot was left I became a lot less interested in. Thus when it…
Justice League (2017) – Review
With Zack Snyder’s Justice League the DC Extended Universe moves into full gear, unfortunately at times it looks like they’ve stripped a gear or two. As the film’s troubled production has been no secret, with the original concept of it being a two part film being jettisoned in favour a two hour standalone one, and…
Amityville: The Awakening (2017) – Review
The Amityville movie series is one of those franchises that just won’t give up the ghost, it doesn’t seem to matter that in the almost forty years since the original movie was released that none of them have been particularly good, or even that profitable as it’s one of those franchises that hopes that brand…
From Hell It Came (1957) – Review
Do you remember when the tree grabbed that kid out of his bedroom in Poltergeist? Or how about the poor girl getting raped by the forest in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead? As genres go “The Killer Plant Movie” is a rather small subset of horror films – with a few notable films like Little Shop…