The latest instalment in the dinosaur franchise offers little sign of life and needs to be consigned to extinction. I saw the original Jurassic Park in 1993 in the cinema. I’ll never forget it. It was mind blowing in almost every way possible. The story, the music, the visual effects – even the very idea of it. The latest film
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Liam Neeson stars in mis-toned remake of a Norwegian black comedy that feels off the mark ultimately disappointing
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For the next review from FilmGeeky, we turn to the directorial debut by Leslie Bloom. Set in the summer of 1969, ‘Woodstock or Bust’ offers a charming idea that doesn’t quite deliver. Woodstock in 1969 was a cultural crescendo in the United States, a defining moment for counterculture crystallising ‘flower power’ and popular music at the time when the Vietnam
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For X in the Alphabet Challenge, we turn to the Netflix produced 2016 XOXO, directed by Christopher Louie with a story that he created, with a screenplay by Dylan Meyer. The film centres on a music festival in the US, at which Ethan (Graham Phillips) a young DJ has been offered a chance to pay a set. As he makes
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It’s time for the ‘K’ film of the Alphabet challenge and the 2004 chinese action comedy film Kung Fu Hustle. Directed, produced, written by Stephen Chow who also stars in the film. Set in Shanghai, the film tells the story of two friends and their attempts to join local gangsters – the ruthless ‘Axe Gang’. The two friends who
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In his final film performance, we now turn to Steve McQueen’s 1980 The Hunter’ for the ‘H’ film of the second run of the Alphabet challenge. Out of respect for one of the coolest actors that ever graced cinema, lets keep this brief. Steve McQueen plays bounty hunter Ralph ‘Papa’ Thorson. Thorson, who makes his living tracking down absconded criminals,
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I genuinely thought it was a joke when someone told me that they were actually working on a sequel for 1996’s Independence Day. A film that I wasn’t a big fan of at the time, but I could appreciate its commercial successes and did enjoy the charismatic performance of Will Smith punching an alien (“Welcome to Earth!”). It was of a
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Continuing on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we return to the intergalactic Space opera of Thor, in the 2013 sequel Thor : The Dark World. For the follow up, Alan Taylor took on the role of director (Kenneth Branagh having directing the first film), having previously directed Palookaville and Kill The Poor. The screenplay by Christopher Yost and the pairing
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Right. Firstly lets remember that I don’t choose the films for the Alphabet Challenge, the role of ‘film chooser’ is randomly allocated amongst a group of us. That’s how I find myself writing about Saw VI. Especially not having seen anything from Saw II to Saw V. I saw Saw (See Saw? Saw Saw etc etc) and to be honest,
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‘Q’ in the Alphabet challenge. And for this, its ‘Quarantine 2 : The Terminal’. I haven’t seen the original Quarantine movie, but the sequel is set around a group of passengers and flight attendants who are on a flight that has to land and ends up quarantined after a virus breaks out on board. I’d been dreading Q in this
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