The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

I love it when a sequel turns out to be a whole lot better than it needs to be. Many, many times, us Movie-Lovers have been bent over the creative barrel and screwed raw by the studio’s insatiable need to add even MORE of our earnings to their Scrooge McDuck-like oceans of cash. A hit […]

As Above, So Below (2014)

SO, it was a lazy pre-Statutory Holiday Thursday night in our household and we had just finished watching ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (1990); an eerie psychological-horror flick that I HIGHLY recommend. My girlfriend enjoyed it (as best as I can tell), but wound up with an appetite for a more…straight forward…thriller. After sifting through our collection of […]

CHAPPiE (2015)

‘CHAPPiE’ is the 3rd major film from Johannesburg-born, Vancouver-based writer / director Neill Blompkamp…and there is no denying that this is one of his films. As most readers will know, Blompkamp came to prominence with his debut feature film ‘District 9’ (2009); an excellent examination / metaphor of South Africa’s horrible ‘apartheid’ era; substituting the […]

Big Hero 6 (2014)

I may be a 37 year old adult…but this flick spoke loudly to my inner 12 year old (who’s probably more prominent in my Personality than he should be ; ). We both had a great time watching this one. Marvel Studios continues their seemingly effortless winning streak with their first feature-length CG animated movie […]

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Matthew Vaughn is a director who consistently surprises me with every addition to his blossoming filmography. Slipping out from under Guy Ritchie’s shadow (they were a Producer / Director duo in the UK), with his feature film debut ‘Layer Cake’ (2004), he has since gone on to give us inventive and stylish flicks like ‘Stardust’ […]

Sabotage (2014)

This is a movie that revels in it’s own unpleasantness. I’ve had this flick floating around in my peripherals for a while, mostly out of morbid curiosity so, on a grey overcast ‘stat’ holiday Monday, while my girlfriend slumbered (she HATES Arnie), I tossed it on. I’m a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films from […]

Gangster Squad (2013)

Straight up…this movie is NOT good. THAT just had to be put out there, right off the Starting Line. So, it was an aimless Friday Night and my better half n Yours Truly were searching for SOMETHING to feast our weary eyes upon (it’d been a LONG work week). Having noticed that THIS title had […]

The Treasure of The Sierra Madre (1948)

Around the beginning of the year, I quietly told myself that it was a good time to start boning up on The Classics. After all, without those milestones of film, we wouldn’t have the modern deluge of cinematic treats that you and I love today. I’ve always been curious about the films of Humphrey Bogart, […]

The November Man (2014)

As an actor, I like Pierce Brosnan. I really do. I thought he made a good ‘James Bond’, who happened to get saddled with some passable, but not great Bond scripts (the less said about ‘Die Another Day’, the better!). Other roles he’s taken on, outside the Bond-verse, have also been quite good. He knows […]

The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies (2014)

And that, as ‘they’ say…is that. The ‘Middle Earth’ film series has now come to a successful end…unless some greedy jackass decides to attempt making ‘The Silmarillion’ into something watchable (Purge THAT urge, Peter Jackson!). What was started WAY back in 2001, with the ‘The Fellowship of The Ring’, has now come full circle with […]