Allied

Robert Zemeckis brings us Allied; part World War II espionage thriller and part romance when a couple on a deep cover mission fall in love and decide to start a family once they accomplish their task. There’s something very old fashioned about this film and I mean this in a good way. Brad Pitt’s Max…

Retro Review – Back to the Future Part III

Now that Future Day is upon us I’m bringing my Back to the Future retrospective to a close with Back to the Future Part III. This is the most divisive one of the trilogy. It’s more or less unanimously agreed that the first two films are great but with this one there is some debate. I’m not…

Retro Review – Back to the Future Part II

Happy Future Day…or if you’re reading this after then I hope you had a good Future Day. The day I published this article is the same day that Marty McFly, his girlfriend Jennifer, Doc Brown and his dog Einstein travelled into the year 2015 in Back to the Future Part II. The date being October…

Retro Review – Back to the Future

With “Future Day” almost upon us I thought it would be a good idea to cover the Back to the Future trilogy. Hopefully I can time the second film for the day that Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and the Doc (Christopher Lloyd) appear in the future. For those not in the know that date is…

The Walk

Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk is a fictionalised telling of the amazing feat performed by French high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) when he illegally put a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and walked across it. This particular story was the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary Man…