*Contains Spoiler Alerts* In the world of 80’s action movies, The Running Man is one of my favourites. Its no Predator or Robocop, but I can’t help but enjoy it. As I watch it tonight
’99 Homes’ is a 2014 film that is grounded in the post housing market collapse across the US set in 2010, in Orlando, Florida. It’s both written and directed by Ramin Bahrani. It centres on
Well we’re off with the February Alphabet Challenge (Feb Alphabet Film Challenge), and we start with ‘The Aviator’. This phenomenal 2004 movie by Martin Scorcese is a biographical dramatisation about Howard Hughes. A man who
‘Everest’ is based on the true story of a 1996 group ascent of the largest mountain on the planet, led by Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke – recently in the new Terminator movie) of ‘Adventure
The third day of the Alphabet Challenge (Alphabet Challenge) sees us shaking off the disappointment of ‘B’ and moving to ‘C’ and more specifically, the Roman Polanski masterpiece – ‘Chinatown’. The film was made in
Day 7 of the Alphabet Challenge, and for ‘G’ its the 2014 drama ‘Good Kill’, written and directed by Andrew Niccol (previously of Lord of War, The Truman Show, Gattaca). The film centres on Major Thomas
To the 60’s we head to review Legend – a biopic about the later years of London based gangsters the Krays. The film is both written and directed by Brian Helgeland, who has previously had significant success
The lastest film by Tom Hanks is the 2015 cold war thriller Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on the true story of incidents around 1960 involving a convicted russian soy in the
In what appears to be a now season of ‘Corey Feldman’ movies, the day after watching The Goonies, I turned to The Lost Boys. From 1987, directed by Joel Schumaker (who would of course go
Hell or High Water is the latest film from Scottish director David MacKenzie, whose previous work includes Young Adam, Starred Up, and Spread. The writer is Taylor Sheridan who previously wrote Sicario (which is a good sign in