Dracula (Adam Sandler) is burnt out and lonely, so his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) books him and the family on a cruise. Little does she know though, that the crazed Van Helsing (Jim Gaffigan) is using the cruise as a cover for his plan to destroy monsters. The third film in the Hotel Transylvania series … Continue reading Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation
I enjoyed writing my Ridley Scott Retrospective so much that I started thinking I could turn this into a series of articles about the directors I admire the most. So for my second article I have selected a director who I discovered when I was 17 around the time I began working at a cinema. … Continue reading Wes Anderson Retrospective
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team must track down stolen plutonium before it is used in a scheme involving old adversary Solomon Lane (Sean Harris). Fallout is the 6th film in the Mission Impossible franchise and it is the first to ever bring back a previous director, the first to genuinely continue a story … Continue reading Mission: Impossible Fallout
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must track down the head of a secret organisation of rogue agents with the added complication that his own organisation, the Impossible Mission Force has been disbanded. The fifth instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise sees writing and directing duties handed to Christopher McQuarrie, a man with many links to Cruise. … Continue reading Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
When David Kim’s (John Cho) daughter goes missing, he desperately tries to assist the police investigation into finding her. Searching’s story telling technique is one that might sound great in a film executive boardroom but hardly ever works out in practice. The story is told entirely through the technology people use to record their lives … Continue reading Searching
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has renovated her mother’s hotel on the Greek island of Kalokairi and whilst she prepares for the grand re-opening party we see flashbacks to her mother Donna’s (Lilly James) time on the island when she was her age. Let’s start with a confession. I’ve never seen Mamma Mia and never had any … Continue reading Mamma Mia! Here we go again
Ex-FBI agent Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) is now a security consultant and has been invited to review the safety of the tallest building in the world, The Pearl. Of course, he is about to have a really bad day as terrorists take control of the building. When they set the 96th floor on fire, trapping … Continue reading Skyscraper
The Hotel Artemis is a secret hospital for criminals with its own set of rules. Set in 2028 as a riot is breaking out in Los Angeles a number of different criminals require the Artemis’ services and some of them don’t see eye to eye. Written and directed by Drew Goddard whose biggest directorial experience … Continue reading Hotel Artemis
Dax (Lil Rel Howery) has spent his life savings to enter a team into the street basketball competition called the Rucker Classic. But when old rival Mookie (Nick Kroll) steals his top player and his girlfriend he is left searching for a replacement team. This is where the mythical Uncle Drew (NBA all star Kyrie … Continue reading Uncle Drew
The fourth film in The Purge franchise is a prequel and aims to show us the beginnings of how an annual event where nothing is illegal for one night came to be. Following the rise of an extreme right wing political party coming to power in America, the NFFA (New Founding Fathers of America) conduct … Continue reading The First Purge
