The Review at the End of the Universe
Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) has come around again and this year it’s time to talk about Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. We discuss Obi Wan’s teaching methods, inefficient executions and the tenuous hold Republic citizens have on their children. Craig can be found on this very site and over…
Bryan Singer gives us another dose of Mutant Mayhem with X-Men: Apocalypse; an entry that tries to be bigger than any X-Men film that we’ve had before. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing as sequels are designed to raise the stakes in such a way that the challenge feels different to the one in the…
First thing to say about Nicholas Stoller’s (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) Bad Neighbours 2 (or Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising in the U.S.) is that it’s not really a film. It’s basically a set of implausible excuses for a series of gross-out set-pieces that barely constitute a plot. The thing is, it’s…
Will Gluck’s Annie is a modern retelling of the Little Orphan Annie story. This isn’t something I’m an expert in but as usual wikipedia provides. I’m actually surprised that it took this long to do a modernisation of this character with all the other reboots and remakes flying around. The story here is that Annie…
This is Where I Leave You is the story of four siblings who are forced to live in their childhood home for a week following the death of their father. When doing so they have to overcome their mother who speaks too candidly as well as their general inability to be in the company of…
