I’m more than happy to admit that I’m not a fan of the deep ocean. There’s nothing better than diving into the waves and catching a ride on the body board, but just as long as I can touch the bottom then I’m all good! So, despite how tempting it’s been to give surfing a…
Steven Spielberg really is an amazing filmmaker, and sometimes I wonder what will we do when he’s not making films anymore. Not because he’s the only one who can make the types of films he does, or because his films are all amazing, but because, well, just because. He’s Steven Spielberg after all! In the…
John Hughes was the man responsible for a string of 80’s/90’s films which hit a real nerve with audiences, not only with the subject matter but his ability to really relate to the age of his audience. With almost all his films relating to the struggles of teenagers, or young people, he found a whole…
It’s not often you hear or read about really old films, unless you’re either studying them at university or are just a huge movie buff, and especially if that film happens to be a 1920’s black and white silent Russian film. But one of those films I had often heard about, and read about, was…
Guillermo del Toro is a director that I tend to like as a person more than the films he makes. I’m not saying I actually know the guy, but from the directors commentaries and interviews I’ve seen and heard, he comes across as a really cool and likeable guy. With his films though, it’s a…
It’s funny how time goes by so quickly, isn’t it? Or maybe we just think it passes by with great speed. A great example of this are my thoughts on Tom Hardy, who feels to me like he only does character work these days, and has been an age since I’ve seen him play a…
You can’t think of Mt Everest without thinking about New Zealand, or at the very least Sir Edmund Hillary, for those who aren’t aware that he was a kiwi. So when a film comes out about Everest, you’re pretty sure that he’ll be mentioned at least once, even if it was just for the Hillary…
When you think of Johnny Depp these days, and to be honest, the past 10 to 15 years, it’s easy to think of only his character work. Even then, when I say character work, I more mean the over the top kind of style rather than the more subtle kind. So when the trailer for…
When you go into a sci-fi film that has been backed up by NASA effectively saying everything in it would be possible, except for a few things, and they might even be doing just that in the coming years, does it still make it sci-fi? That’s an interesting question to think about, as most sci-fi…
Normally when I review films I have a semi-defined process. That being, I see it, and the next day, or sometimes that day, I write a review about it. Though when I saw this film, The Intern, it was the day before I headed off on holiday for a week, and so I decided to…
