Review – Page 19 – Flicks and Pieces

Big Hero 6 (2014) Mini Review

“It is okay to cry. Crying is a natural response to pain.”

The set up for The Affair is as simple as it gets. A married author visiting a small town for the summer with his family meets a younger – also very married – waitress, sparks fly and an affair ensues (as the title would suggest). How the story is told however is far more complex, intriguing,…

Orange is the New Black: Season Three Review

Hands up, who’s still rooting for Piper? Though she was certainly never the most likeable lead, she had her moments. She’s self-centred, selfish and ignorant to other people’s feelings yes, but she had a certain charm about it at the same time. She was, after all, our Piper. She was our “in” into Litchfield Penitentiary, we were…

Terminator Genisys Review

If you’re heading into Genisys expecting the second coming of Judgement Day you’re going to be sorely disappointed, just as you’ll be pleasantly surprised if you’re expecting a disaster on the scale of Terminator 3 or Salvation. What you will find is a movie that almost doesn’t seem to be striving for anything beyond mediocrity as it fumbles its…

The Theory Of Everything (2015) Mini Review

“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”

Jurassic World Review

Welcome, to Jurassic World. A tourist attraction where dinosaurs great and small roam for all to see, where children can poke and prod at baby triceratops, and where everyone seems to have swept the events of Jurassic Park under the rug, along with those of its two sequels. It was never going to end well. Dinosaurs…

Spy Review

Genre movies tend to have an odd tendency of coming in pairs, be it Dante’s Peak and Volcano, The Cave and The Descent or The Illusionist and The Prestige. Sometimes it’s purely coincidence, other times it’s a cheap attempt at cashing in on another film’s success, and rarely do both movies end up being remembered…

Little Pieces Review

If there are two things British cinema is known for it’s gritty realism and melodrama. With Little Pieces, debutant writer/ director Adam Nelson is clearly striving for the former, but the limitations the film is shackled by regularly push it into melodramatic territory.

Max Max: Fury Road Review

What a rush! Mad Max Is back, and louder, brasher and crazier than ever. Yes, it’s borderline ridiculous, but boy does it know it. George Miller’s rejuvenation of the long slumbering franchise is a beast, embracing its roots, and the more ‘out there’ elements of its universe, to provide a non-stop, roller coaster ride of…

Spooks: The Greater Good Review

The mere fact that a Spooks film even exists is an achievement in itself. After concluding its TV run on the BBC nearly four years ago after ten seasons, it’s probably fair to say that there wasn’t an audience clamouring for the film to be made. Whilst the series had success in the UK, internationally…

Life Itself (2014) Mini Review

“I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don’t remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.”