WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers A book was once born out of the true story of the S.S Politician running aground on the rocks of the Island of Eriskay. From that book came a film in 1949 of the same name, Whisky Galore!. To me, it comes across as a rather strange style of …
Live or Die: You Decide
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This is another one of my ‘Tackling the Trope’ articles, I just felt that adding that into the title would have made it a little too long. So, everyone has their own opinion on whether they prefer the protagonists to survive the film or whether they are happy for …
Fright Night 1985 vs 2011
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers From the mind of Tom Holland (no, not that one) came the story of Charley Brewster and the vampire next door. It seems that when choosing to remake this film, Craig Gillespie believed that not enough death took place. So, here’s my opinion on who told the story better …
Tackling the Trope: Death by Sex
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I’m sure you’ve all heard Randy’s rules for surviving a horror film in Scream right? Well, I wanted to look at one of them a little more in depth – specifically rule one: Never have sex. BIG NO NO! BIG NO NO! Sex equals death, okay? (Couldn’t resist the …
Battle of the Prequels
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers It is very rare for two versions of a prequel film to be include in a film’s anthology. I’m being serious, both Dominion and Exorcist: The Beginning are included in the DVD boxset. It does make you wonder if one is a deliberate remake of the other or if …
Singer to Actress: Rihanna
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Born in Barbados, it seems that Rihanna has decided to become a jackie-of-all-trades. Unfortunately, she has only ended up being mistress of a few. As a teenager, before my music tastes began to change, I was a big fan of Rihanna’s. So much so that I owned her first …
Wonder Woman
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 …
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, …