Moonlight Review

So tonight is the night of the Oscars and I wanted to see as many of the major Oscar nominated films as possible, although I only managed to see four of them, three of them being Arrival, Hidden Figures and La La Land. The last one I saw is the one that I wanted to see…

Hidden Figures Review

Over the past few years, we’ve been getting a number of films telling stories of African American people during the 60’s that previously had not been put on screen before. We saw the first big film about Jesse Owens with Race, a biopic of Jackie Robinson with 42 and a film about Martin Luther King…

John Wick: Chapter 2 Review

One of the biggest surprises in the action world to come out in the past few years was John Wick. With very little build up, John Wick rose to become one of the definitive action films of the past few years alongside The Raid films. It took the legendary badass status of Keanu Reeves and…

The Lego Batman Movie Review

On a few occasions (but growing more over the past few years) you see films get released in the UK before the US and thankfully, this was one of the times, getting to see this film before I saw any spoilers. Now The Lego Movie was one of my favourite films of 2014, I thought…

T2 Trainspotting Review

Over the past few years, whenever Danny Boyle has been interviewed, the question of a sequel to his 1996 hit Trainspotting has been brought up, unsurprisingly since the book Trainspotting was based on has seen 2 sequels and a prequel in the intervening years, but for the longest time it didn’t look like the film…

2017 Blind Spot: A Hard Day’s Night

For the second film in my 2017 Blind Spot picks I feel like a bit of context is needed. As anyone who knows me in real life knows, I am a massive fan of The Beatles. Most of the music on my iPod are Beatles songs, Across The Universe is one of my favourite films,…