WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As you can guess based on this blog, I am a massive film lover – so it really does take a lot for me to find a film that I dislike. I understand that the first Wonder Woman film was rushed in order to be ready in time to …
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Robocop 1987 vs 2014
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Interesting fact alert! The idea for the original Robocop film was conceived while one of the writers was working on the set of Blade Runner. How cool is that? However, with any good concept someone somewhere has to decide that they feel they could do it better – or …
Singer to Actor: Justin Timberlake
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers It probably comes as no surprise that Justin decided to become a singer, as this seemed to be the path chosen by his fellow well-known Mousekeeters (excluding Ryan Gosling but we’ll talk about him at a later date). He started out as a member of N*Sync but soon decided …
The Cat and the Canary 1939 vs 1973
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Now, I have a little confession to make. The 1939 version of The Cat and the Canary is not the original film. It is actually based on a 1927 silent film, which in turn is based on a play from 1922 of the same name by John Willard. However, …
Anti-Heroes
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Anti-hero def. A lead character who lacks what would be considered as typical heroic qualities. However, is it not also the case that someone doing a bad thing for a good reason could also be considered an anti-hero? Well, I’ve compiled a few films which I considered to contain …
From Board Game to Video Game
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers When Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was released, I was genuinely nervous that it was going to be a remake of the Robin Williams film that I loved watching growing up. However, while watching it, I spotted some key things (normal people call them Easter Eggs) that told me …
Singer to Actor: Mark Wahlberg
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers A little fact for all the millennials and Gen-Zs reading this, Mark Wahlberg used to be known as Marky-Mark and actually has two studio albums to his name with his band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (yes, they are on Spotify if you want to check them out).His …
Not a Good Day to Die
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’ve talked previously about not messing with the afterlife when I covered the Ouija films but actually putting yourself in a position to visit the other side is a complete different extreme to a simple board carved with letters. Today we follow two groups of med students on their …
Utopian Future
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I discovered something when watching the following films. With every Utopian future, something has to go wrong or at least not be quite right – in the same way that with every Dystopian future, someone overthrows (whether successfully or not) the powers that be. Westworld I’m just going …
Mutant and Proud
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Here is where my love for Marvel films began, long before the MCU truly began. I won’t say that I prefer the X-Men to the Avengers but they are definitely up there. Now, I know this became a very confusing franchise in terms of the timeline and there are …