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…
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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…
A Quiet Place (2018) – Review
“Who are we if we can’t protect our children?” This is a question put forward by Emily Blunt’s character in director John Krasinski’s horror film A Quiet Place, which deals with a lone family trying to survive in world now populated with monsters, and it makes us wonder what we would do in a similar…
Arcade (1993) – Review
“I never believed in Heaven, but I learned to believe in Hell when mom sent me there.” That is the first line of the 1993 sci-fi horror movie Arcade, as spoken by the lead protagonist, a teenage girl who had her life turned upside when her mother committed suicide and her father sank into a…
Ready Player One (2018) – Review
Based on Ernest Cline’s best-selling book of the same name Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One could honestly be marketed as Pop Culture References: The Movie, and to be honest if you’ve seen the trailer that shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but with one of the premier directors of this or any generation at the…