Coming 2 America (2021)

What's this? A movie review?! Yeah, been a while 😉 No, I'm not back at my beloved cinema, but as lockdowns and closures drag on, some of the distributers seems to be back in the mood to release some bigger titles to the streaming market again, rather than waiting waiting waiting for reopenings. And to …

Trolls World Tour (2020)

Following on from the surprise success of the even more surprisingly watchable and upbeat Trolls (2016), Poppy, Branch and the gang are back for more adventures. They're joined by a new host of voice cameos, a paper thin plot, and the unenviable feat of making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. For, in these …

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

I'm finding this such a hard movie to review, I can barely imagine how difficult it must have been to make! The original Blade Runner (1982) has become one of the cornerstones of science fiction cinema. The look, the noir-ish feel, the music - all iconic. So, first rule of sequel: don't destroy that kind of …

Despicable Me 3 (2017)

Gru (Steve Carell) might have sorted out his family life over the previous two installments, with Lucy (Kristen Wiig) now step-mom to the 'gurrrrls' (girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes), but work isn't going so well - the pair have just been fired from the Anti Villain League for failing to capture 80s child TV star turned …

Alien: Covenant (2017)

The Covenant: a colony ship, heading to a remote planet to allow its cargo of 2000 sleeping colonists to start a new life. When it hits a damaging neutron field, synthetic life form, Walter (Michael Fassbender, once again the only interesting character in the whole piece), wakes the crew to help deal with the disaster. Shaken by …

BladeRunner 3: Replicant Night – KW Jeter

"Wake up..." I think the best thing I can say about this book is that it's very worthwhile to read something a bit rubbish once in a while to make the good stuff look good! Not having been too impressed with the previous volume, Edge of Human, I had hoped that a second sequel (to the …

T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Twenty years ago, a little movie about the most unlikely of subjects - an Edinburgh youth with an on/off heroin addiction - become something of a cultural phenomenon for Scotland. In preparation for viewing the sequel, I rewatched the original and was amazed at just how iconic 90% of the scenes had become and still remain. That two …

BladeRunner 2: The Edge of Human – KW Jeter

"When every murder seems the same, it's time to quit." I reread Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? last year, and was yet again amazed at just how different it is to the film it inspired: BladeRunner. Given both are feted parts of sci-fi culture, the surprise here isn't that someone decided to try and come up …

Rogue One (2016)

While I thoroughly enjoyed The Force Awakens, in a popcorn-tastic kind of a way, it was easy to see why the die-hard fans were rather disappointed: there was nothing really 'new' for those who'd followed the story and wanted to see a different part of the sprawling universe of Star Wars. Rogue One, I suspect, is the film …

Jason Bourne (2016)

When we first met Jason Bourne (an amazing-to-think-it 14 years ago) he was dragged from the ocean, shot up and with no recollection of who he was or why his head was full of such handy information as several languages and super-fighting skills. Three films on, he remembers everything - but that doesn't mean he …