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…
Baymax brings the best medicine a healthcare robot could provide: laughter. Well, it was about time that Walt Disney made its own Marvel film, seeing how Disney did in fact bring us Marvel Entertainment. And here we have it – Big Hero 6, which puts aside the conventional Disney fairy tale for an exciting super hero adventure full of…
Aside from Batman, Spider-Man will always be one of my favourite superheroes. Here, from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, to the much maligned third instalment…to The Amazing Spider-Man, I will rank the films in order of my personal favourites. What order would you rank the films? The question is, which film was the best of the bunch? Looks like you’ll have to give my…
Claire and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Are dinosaurs really mammals or simply theme park monsters? As a matter of fact, the answer is both, of course. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic World is the fourth and fiercest instalment in the franchise yet. Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now embraces a fully…
Frankly first-rate. Directed by American independent filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, an aspiring musician, Jon (Domnhall Gleeson), experiences a journey of self-exploration after joining a band led by the eccentric and mysterious Frank (Michael Fassbender), whose face is permanently covered beneath a comically oversized mask. Not only is Frank is a good character study; weird behaviour and out-of-control situations are depicted throughout…
A Bitter-Suite Love Story. Suite Française is a love story between Bussy resident Lucille Angellier (Michelle Williams) and Nazi officer Commander Bruno (Matthias Schoenaerts). As the town of Bussy deals with the burden of Nazi occupation, Angellier finds herself coming to empathise with Bruno. As a result, an unlikely romance blossoms, along with all the complications that are to be…
A clever and chilling Sci-fi masterpiece. A young programmer named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), working at a popular search engine company, BlueBook, is selected in a contest to spend a week with the company’s founder, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). When arriving at Nathan’s isolated estate, Caleb is introduced to the Nathan’s project ‘Ava’ (Alicia Vikander), an artificially intelligent android. It is Caleb’s…
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