Alien invasion films have been a staple of science fiction movies for decades with such classics as George Pal’s War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers bringing alien destruction to the big screen, but in 1996 Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich took that standard sci-fi element and blended it with…
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Bright (2017) – Review
Last year we were treated to a film called La La Land where a heightened and magical version of Los Angeles was given to us, now thanks to Netflix we get another magical version of the City of Angels only this time the magic is more overt and the themes are mean spirited and cynical….
Collateral Beauty (2016) – Review
In between doing films like Men and Black and Suicide Squad Will Smith tries to do films that allow him to stretch as an actor, now sometimes this results in films like The Pursuit of Happiness but then other times we get something like Collateral Beauty, a treacly mess that wouldn’t pass muster as poor…
Suicide Squad (2016) – Review
Doing a team-up film is tough, doing a team-up film based on a plethora of colourful comic book characters is even tougher, and you’d think after the disaster that was the 1997 Batman & Robin and all the negative feedback from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice that DC Comics/Warner Brothers would have at least…