Not everybody’s shot of vodka… Directed by Tate Taylor, and with a screenplay written by Erin Cressida Wilson, The Girl on the Train is adapted from the best selling novel of the same name, written by Paula Hawkins. Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), an exhausted alcoholic, gets entangled in a missing persons case when a woman named Megan (Haley Bennett),…
Claustrophobia meets Cat and Mouse. In hope that they will escape from Detroit forever, three friends (burglars), who go by the name of Money (Daniel Zovatto), Rocky (Jane Levy) and Alex (Dylan Minnette), break into a blind war veteran’s house with only cash on their minds. This soon backfires, as the victim is not what they pictured. They’ll be lucky…
It’s OK to be a hit-man, as long as you love your daughter. Directed and written by David Ayer, Suicide Squad marks as the third instalment to DC’s expanded universe. Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), assembles a number of imprisoned villains who are chosen to carry out deadly missions, in return for a lowered prison sentence. The squad consists of…
What happens when you have to leave your pet for the day? A loyal dog, Max (Louis C.K.), is horrified when his owner, Katie, arrives home with another (and much larger) dog named Duke (Eric Stonestreet). The two dogs don’t exactly get along, leading to them being lost in New York City. Along the way, Max and Duke meet several…
Not so ‘giant’ after all… Set at an Orphanage, in the middle of the night, young Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) hears a peculiar noise outside her bedroom window and spots a giant (Mark Rylance). Fearing his existence could become known, the giant snatches Sophie, taking her to Giant Country. He may be the Big Friendly Giant (BFG), but the other giants aren’t half…
Charge the lines, create the vortex, break the barriers. Directed by Paul Feig, a revival from the 1984 classic has landed on the silver screen. It centrals on a villain obsessed with desiring for the apocalypse constructs a device that increases paranormal activity in hope of designing an opening between our world and the ghost dimension. In the meantime, three scientists, Abby (Melissa McCarthy), Jillian…
A lazy adaptation. Directed by David Yates, The Legend of Tarzan explores how after living at Greystoke Manor with his wife Jane (Margot Robbie), John Clayton III, aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is enticed back into Africa by a Belgian man named Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz). Rom hopes to entice John back to Africa at the request of Chief Mbonga (Djimon…
Not Pixar’s best fish in the sea… Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) lost her parents since she was a young fish. Now, she lives with clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his son, Nemo (Hayden Rolence). Sooner or later, Dory loses her clownfish friends too, and decides to search for her real parents. Marlin and Nemo must go on the search for Dory…will they…
Masks serve as an on-going phenomenon on-screen throughout the history of cinema. Here are 10 films I rate to be the most iconic in terms of masked identity and are personal favourites/picks. Who doesn’t love the enigma of a good mask?… 10. Eyes Without a Face (1960) – This certainly makes for an unsettling mask, having no facial…
A pleasant surprise… Directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, The Angry Birds movie is based on the popular gaming app, becoming the latest video game to film adaptation. A game that requires aiming birds at pigs with a giant slingshot doesn’t consist of much in terms of narrative, but unlike the majority of video game adaptations,…
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