Top 10 Best Picture Nominees from 2010 to 2020 (That Didn’t Win)   I have a weird fascination with the Oscars. I know it’s descended to a complete joke, but it doesn’t change the fact that despite they devolved into basically a bribery contest and making films that only appease Academy voters, you’re guaranteed…

So, with cinemas on lockdown at this point, it means I am not going get my review of The Hunt out since I actually got a stomach bug before I was meant to review it properly, and by the time I got to see it the cinemas were shut down the next day so it…

“BLUMHOUSE’S FANTASY ISLAND” Fantasy Island was a TV series created in 1979 and ran until 1984, and it was a huge deal in America. I mean, the whole thing went on for about 150 episodes. Created by the late Gene Levitt, it starred the late but always great Ricardo Montalbán, quite possibly one of the…

“ONWARD” Yes, I was meant to see The Colour Out Of Space but to my shock, not a single cinema in my area was playing it, and I’m not about to hop on a train to London for one film when I’ve just done a busy weekend of work, so I decided to just go…

“THE CALL OF THE WILD” The Call of the Wild is the latest adaptation of Jack London’s 1903 novel, this time coming to us from normally animation director Chris Sanders. Chris Sanders started out working for Disney, holding both a writing and directing credit on Lilo and Stitch before moving to Dreamworks to direct the…

“SONIC THE HEDGEHOG” The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has had one of the more troubled production histories in recent memory. The license was originally picked up by Sony, however, not much came about from the project. There were several names being placed about, even Tim Miller (who directed Deadpool) was at one point attached to…

“BIRDS OF PREY” Birds of Prey is the latest film from the DCEU after taking quite a significant break after last year’s Shazam. The DCEU is in a bit of a weird quandary at the minute. While their films have been improving in their schedule now, suggesting they’ll be able to get back to the…

“THE GRUDGE (2020)” You probably can guess from my love of lots of Japanese media that a new version of The Grudge would be right up my alley. Well, I certainly was interested to see how it turned out considering that I actually do quite like The Grudge films. I even quite like the one…

“WEATHERING WITH YOU” Weathering With You is the most recent film from Makoto Shinkai, director of films such as 5 Centimeters Per Second, The Garden Of Words and the previously reviewed, Your Name, which I said was one of the best animated films of the decade. Now, when I went to see Your Name for…

  So, 2019’s at its end. And overall, it was a year in cinema where I felt really cynical. More than ever it felt like films were coming out with a rather cynical cash-grab feel. There were bright spots within the bunch, but it also became very clear that there weren’t as many reasons to…

“STAR WARS: RISE OF SKYWALKER” So, episode 9 finally came out and after a long break, I finally give my opinion of it. Well, this one has actually had a slightly troubled production. Episode 8 was not too well-received; it’s clear Disney were getting worried about this being a trilogy of flops. So, as a…

“KONOSUBA: LEGEND OF CRIMSON” So, this is a review that’s really just for someone like me. I really, really like Konosuba. It’s one of the funniest Anime series that have come out in recent memory. Now, I wrote a large portion about it in my book. In fact, it was one of the highlights of…

“THE IRISHMAN” Okay, I’m going to put my raging bias of my opinion of Martin Scorsese in light of his comments on Marvel movies to one side because all in all, I think it’s a bit unfair and unreasonable for the most part. I do however have to say, my opinion of Martin Scorsese is…

“PROMARE” Promare is the feature length debut for Studio Trigger, one of my favourite animation studios out of Japan. And it also is the feature length debut of Hiroyuki Imaishi, who’s directed excellent television series, including Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill and Space Patrol Luluco, and even worked as an art director on the one…

“FROZEN 2” So Frozen 2 was obviously going to happen. The original film really brought back Disney to the big time and has been a critical and major financial success. This time round, once again, we have directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee in the director’s chair, with Jennifer Lee directing the screenplay, and the…

“LE MANS 66” Le Mans 66, or as it’s known in America, Ford vs Ferrari, which is also what its listed as on IMDB, is 20th Century Fox finally doing the story of Carrol Shelby and Ken Miles’ historic run at the famous Le Mans 24-hour race. 20th Century Fox has been kicking around with…

“THE AERONAUTS” The Aeronauts is the latest film from director, Tom Harper, a well-known director who’s been mainly working as an episode director for very famous TV shows, including Peaky Blinders, Misfits, This Is England 86 and, rather recently, the 2016 War and Peace TV mini-series. He has moved into film, but his films have…

“DOCTOR SLEEP” Doctor Sleep is an interesting film out of the gate. It’s essentially a sequel to The Shining, which in itself provides a bit of an issue. See, Doctor Sleep, rather like its previous counterpart, is a film based on a book by Stephen King, and if you have the knowledge of Stephen King’s…