Tim Burton has created such a unique body of work, so much so that it’s very difficult to compare his work to any other films apart from his own. Honourable mentions: The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Haven’t seen Mars Attacks! or Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, therefore it would not have been fair to rank them. Which one will…
Nature’s vengeance… a lot of talk, though very little action. A blossoming romance springs between Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), a wealthy socialite, and a Lawyer based in San Francisco, Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor). They first meet in a pet shop, where they are both shopping for birds. Brenner is familiar with Melanie from a recent trial which she was…
Broken rules #1 and #2 already… Based on the novel, by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club is told in first person narrative by an insomniac, (Edward Norton), who attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. Another fake attendee of the support groups is Marla (Helen Boham Carter), who seems to make his life a little more…
Sequels are tricky territory. They either work, or they fall completely flat on their faces. I imagine there are ones that are worse that I haven’t seen (and certainly don’t intend to), but here is a list of the worst film sequels I have seen to date. Which film sequels are your least favourite? Comment below! 15. Cars 2 (2011) – I…
Keep a close eye out for this one. Working for the CIA as an intelligence agent, Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is mapping out missions to field agent, Bradley Fine (Jude Law), assisting him in his job. However, Fine is assassinated, leaving Susan to go undercover to bring down Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), before a nuclear weapon trade to the…
“Old but not obsolete!” And he’s back… Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) is sent back to 1984 in attempt to stop the original T-800 from killing Sarah Connor, though soon discovers that the 1984 he’s expecting no longer exists. This has already been changed by another time traveller. I will start off by saying, the original is a cult…
Sadly, they are sidekicks for a reason… First, The Penguins of Madagascar, now, we are presented with a spin-off of the small, yellow sidekicks from Despicable Me. Minions have lived since the prehistoric era; with the purpose of serving an evil boss. The boss has changed several times, from T-rex, Dracula, until Napoleon. The catch is, they always result in making their…
A jigsaw puzzle-type film for the mind to work out. Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), has a condition where he is unable to form new memories ever since suffering from a head injury during a home invasion attack, in which his wife was killed. Now, using clues from the night, Polaroid photographs, hand-written notes to himself, tattoos and…
Catastrophically crumbling into the disaster genre. Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson), The Los Angeles Fire Department search and rescue helicopter pilot, is tasked with disaster rescue after an earthquake hits near the Hoover Dam, destroying it. An even larger series of earthquake shake the entire state of California soon afterwards. Ray is informed his soon to be ex-wife Emma (Carla Gugino) is in…
Just to clarify, to me, a ‘school film’ is not a film that has to be centered around the academic lives of its characters, but instead a film in the school setting and classroom environments. This isn’t my favourite ‘genre’ (if you’d call it that…) of film, but it certainly brings entertainment and comedy. In terms of honourable mentions, School…
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