Movies that involve dogs usually give me shivers. They are often sickly sentimental with an obvious full-on emotional ending, or just plain annoying. Cujo was an exception, but that was a dog with rabies, and Channing Tatum’s 2022 Dog managed to avoid the usual potholes. Now we have Heart of the Beast, a survival movie…
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
50 years ago, Aardman Animations burst onto screens in 1976 when a plastacine character named Morph appeared on the art programme Take Hart. Since then, the studio has grown, not only in size but in reputation, with creations like Wallace and Gromit, winning Oscars and hitting the big screen with movies like Chicken Run. One…
Bad Apples
A few months back there was a film released called Good Boy, which starred Stephen Graham as a man who kidnaps a criminal, chains him up in his cellar and tries to rehibilitate him. Now we get Bad Apples, a film that follows similar lines, except this time it’s a primary school teacher and an…
Resident Evil
Since it burst onto the PlayStation back in 1996, we have had six movies, from the husband-and-wife team Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich, and a reboot back in 2021 subtitled Welcome to Raccoon City, which has been forgotten by almost everyone, as well as a short-lived TV series. Enough time has passed for another…
Practical Magic 2
Practical Magic was a minor hit back in 1997 and while a strong cast, wasn’t that memorable. In fact, before visiting the sequel, I had to revisit and watch the original. It’s a fairly sweet natured tale of witches that made more of an impact when it hit home entertainment than in the cinema. Now,…
Pressure
Many movies have covered the D-Day landings on 6th June 1944, most notably The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan. Yet we have never had a movie about the seaborne invasion told from a weatherman’s point of view until now. Pressure is the true story of how General Dwight D. Eisenhower made the decision of…
The Dog Stars
Sir Ridley Scott has always been a highly respected director, and his films always generate a certain amount of excitement, although the quality of his movies has been, in the most polite way, hit-or-miss. Starting out strong with The Duellists, Alien, and Blade Runner, there are some films that equal those now classics (Gladiator, Thelma…
One Night Only
In Hollywood, a web platform lets writers submit their work for executives to vote on the best unproduced screenplays. In the past, films like Juno and The Imitation Game topped the site, so we are looking at quality work that eventually was made. I have a question. How did One Night Only get to be…
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma
The slasher horrors of the 80s are often easy targets to ridicule due to the ridiculousness of their premises, particularly the Friday the 13th series. Yet no one has ever approached the popular horrors as a way to deal with the nature of the films, the sexual chaos of the franchise or even how they…
Coyote Vs Acme
Some films are never sure things, even after they’re completed. Coyote Vs Acme is one such film. Made back in 2023, it was shelved by Warner Bros Discovery as a tax write-off. However, Ketchup Entertainment managed to buy the rights and saved the film from never being seen, and we can thank them for doing…
The End Of Oak Street
Imagine, if you can, waking up to find your suburban street has been taken over by dinosaurs. Well, that’s the basic premise of writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s adventure film, which has more than a touch of Steven Spielberg about it. It is easy to do that, considering that Spielberg directed one of the greatest dinosaur…
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Someone recently said that the superhero movie was done and dusted, that public fatigue had grown, which is why films like Supergirl had failed miserably. Well, looking at the box office takings of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it seems that there is still a hunger for the web-slinger. This fourth outing for the current incarnation…
