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 […]

The Babadook (2014)

I knew virtually nothing about this modestly-budgeted Australian horror film when it first popped onto The Scene. Not long after it’s arrival, people began to talk about it, some of them going to far as to declare it ‘The Scariest Movie of 2014’. Based on that, I kept myself as ‘in the dark’ about the […]

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

Anyone who has taken a semi-regular read through my reviews will be able to deduce that I’m a substantial Ridley Scott fan. I love the man’s work! Even when a total flop is shat into his filmography (looking squarely at YOU, ‘The Counselor’!), there are still technical and artistic aspects of the presentation that are […]

Nightcrawler (2014)

I think, in some respects, that this film / role is the one where Hollywood may start viewing Jake Gyllenhaal (‘Donnie Darko’) as something resembling the American answer to Christian Bale (‘American Psycho’), if ‘they’ don’t already. Gyllenhaal is a talented actor, who has proven that he can effectively carry many different types and styles […]

Interstellar (2014)

It’s interesting. The other night, my girlfriend and I watched a morbidly fascinating and inspiring documentary called ‘Food Inc’ (2008), which was about the state of our contemporary food infa-structure and how crop strains have now been patented for exclusive use by a handful of select corporations, thus keeping farmers under their thumb and under […]

John Wick (2014)

THAT…was a kick-ass flick! Smiles all around! Keanu Reeves hits the ground running in this revenge thriller and hits it with a vengeance! This is certainly one of those instances where I whole-heartedly agree with the advance reviews regarding this flick’s potential as a solid contender for getting Keanu’s recently stumbling career back on track […]

Gone Girl (2014)

*SPOILERS* I’m throwing THAT out there right now. There’s no way that I can give an honest impression of this movie without A) delving into *SPOILER* territory, and B) comparing and referencing the original source material, in this case, the bestselling novel by author Gillian Flynn. I did something with this one that I haven’t […]

Stretch (2014)

Sometimes, I can only shake my head in dismay at some of the decisions that roll out of Hollywood, specifically Universal Studios in this case. I’ve been following the career of director / writer Joe Carnahan for years, going back to his first major release ‘Narc’ (2002) and I’ve always gotten SOMETHING out of his […]