Thoughts on Justice League: The Snyder Cut

Today it was announced that HBO Max is going to be releasing the long demanded for Snyder Cut of Justice League. Following the release of Justice League in 2017, and the belief from campaigners that the film released in cinemas was ruined when Joss Whedon was brought on to re-write and do some re-shoots for…

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Review

The X-Men series has been very hit and miss for me. There have been some great highs with films like X-Men: First Class and Logan and some real lows like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: Apocalypse. Now though, we have come to the end of this series of X-Men films before the rights to the…

Woman at War Review

I have to say that I’m not really familiar with Icelandic cinema. I’ve heard about some prominent Icelandic films like Of Horses and Men and Rams, but I’ve never had the chance to see them. So, when I found an opportunity to watch Woman at War, which I’d heard great things about, I decided to…

Searching Review

The growing trend of shooting films from the perspective of phones has never really had a true champion before. Films like Unfriended and Open Windows have explored that idea, but could never convince me that they deserved to be released in the cinema rather than going straight to Netflix so it can be viewed on…

Going Through the MCU

Since it is now just under a week at the time of writing this from the release of Avengers: Infinity War, I thought it would be best to go over the other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to build up my anticipation for Infinity War and to have something more concrete in place for…

End of Year Round Up 2017

So 2017 has been and gone and thank god it has. Whilst I have had a good year personally, finishing up my Masters; crossing Oslo off of the list of cities I’ve always wanted to see; saw a live production of Angels in America; recorded episodes of The Lambcast, The Film Pasture and Forgotten Filmcast…

2016 Oscar Predictions

So it’s that time of the year again when Shane over at Film Actually does his annual Oscar predictions contest. I’ve been taking part for the past few years and have enjoyed making my predictions (even if most years it’s been going on I’ve come last). Continuing this tradition, here are my predictions for this…

2016 Blind Spot: Raging Bull Review

So here it is, the last blind spot film I’ll be covering this year and, as stated right at the start, I’m book-ending with Scorcese. In January I reviewed Taxi Driver and this month I’m covering one of the other films considered to be Scorcese’s masterpiece, once again with Robert De Niro, Raging Bull. This…

Top 10 Films of 2015

So here we are, my top 10 films of 2015. Overall, I think this has been a better year than a lot of people are claiming it is. Sure there were a lot of crap films but by and large I avoided them, I also found there a lot more films that were, in the…

Top 10 Scenes of 2015

So it’s that time of the year again. Time to do my end of the year retrospective. I have to say, I think I’ve found 2015 to be a better year in film than a lot of people and there were a lot of great scenes this year. Even some more mediocre films have had…