By Vijay Varman
While director Andrew Niccol has never quite reached the box office heights of Christopher Nolan, there have been very few filmmakers that have made as many memorable contributions to original … Continue reading Review: Anon (2018) – An Engaging But Flawed Sci-Fi Original
Minor spoilers for The Terminator Looking back, 2015 turned out to be an interesting year for nostalgic blockbusters. Specifically when looking at the top two highest grossing films worldwide: The … Continue reading Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) – A Gothic-Infused Improvement Over The First Movie
Often in cinema, when a superhero from the comic book realm becomes hugely popular, there will be a certain number of people that will say it was mostly down to … Continue reading Review: Deadpool 2 (2018) – A Little Unstructured But Still Uproarious
Spoilers for Season 3 of Doctor Who and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Now that we’re four movies into the Disney-led Star Wars franchise, it’s clear that the behind-the-scenes … Continue reading Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) – The Most Expensive “Tick-Box” Movie Ever Made
[Spoilers for all movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!] Hello there, my oddly photogenic Caucasian friend! What seems to trouble you today? *sigh* I really want to arrange a trip … Continue reading Hate Marvel? Still Want To See Infinity War And Have It Make Sense? Help Is At Hand!
[Spoilers for Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future Part II, Empire Strikes Back, and all prior movies in the MCU] Do you know why Back to the Future … Continue reading Review: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – A Climax To End All Climaxes
A few months ago someone told me that Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was basically the male fantasy equivalent of Fifty Shades of Grey. Essentially both were badly written books that … Continue reading Review: Ready Player One (2018) – The Return of Blockbuster Spielberg?
The fact that I am able to sit here and write a review for a Pacific Rim sequel is probably the single biggest indicator of how dramatically the power of … Continue reading Review: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) – Not Quite As Arousing As The Original
Well that came out of nowhere. Not content to unleash a trailer for Cloverfield 3 / God Particle a mere two months before its cinema release (like they did with 10 … Continue reading Review: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) – A Misguided Attempt to Explain The Cloverfield Universe
You know, in part one of my list I made what I thought was a minor topical joke about the current state of politics and the dangers of nuclear war. … Continue reading Some of My Most Anticipated Movies of 2018 (Part Two)
When it comes down to it, 2018 might legitimately have a nuclear war started by a rogue tweet. And after millions are dead, the war would undoubtedly end with the … Continue reading Some of My Most Anticipated Movies of 2018 (Part One)
Well here we are again. The end of another 365-day journey around the sun. And it doesn’t feel like it was a particularly great year, was it? Even putting aside … Continue reading My Top 15 Most Notable Films of 2017
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