Category: Films

  • Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

    Certificate 12A, 147 minutes Director: Christopher McQuarrie Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames Mission: Impossible – Fallout opens with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, The Mummy) and Julia (Michelle Monaghan) apparently having a wedding ceremony in a remote, if beautiful, location. There is only one other person present, apart from, the couple, the man officiating…

  • Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp

    Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp

    Certificate 12A, 118 minutes Director: Peyton Reed Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña Ant-Man and the Wasp opens with Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) talking about the night Hope’s mother died. Janet Van Dyne is telling a young Hope that she and Hope’s father have to leave on a last minute business trip. Which…

  • Movie Review: Ocean’s 8

    Movie Review: Ocean’s 8

    Certificate 12A, 110 minutes Director: Gary Ross Stars: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway Ocean’s 8 (also styled Ocean’s Eight) opens with Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) sitting in a chair in a room, in front of what is presumably the parole board, although they are never seen. The unseen parole board officer is telling her…

  • Movie Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    Movie Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    Certificate 12A, 128 minutes Director: J.A. Bayona Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom begins underwater with a two man minisub making its way towards what turns out to be a pair of huge metal gates, which then open as the sub approaches. The gates open into the Mosasaurus lagoon…

  • Movie Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Movie Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Certificate 12A, 135 minutes Director: Ron Howard Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second film offshoot from the main sequence of Star Wars films, after Rogue One. This one is about a young Han Solo and it starts with how the crime syndicates run people’s lives and…

  • Movie Review: Deadpool 2

    Movie Review: Deadpool 2

    Certificate 15, 119 minutes Director: David Leitch Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin Deadpool 2 opens with Deadpool/Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds, Life) smoking as he winds up a music box. The music box is entitled Logan and has a Wolverine impaled on a branch on the top. Which looks suspiciously like a scene from…

  • Movie Review: Avengers: Infinity War

    Movie Review: Avengers: Infinity War

    Certificate 12A, 159 minutes Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo Avengers: Infinity War begins with a ship stating that they are an Asgardian refugee ship with few soldiers on board. They are under attack by a much larger craft. Inside the refugee ship, most of the people are…

  • Movie Review: Peter Rabbit

    Movie Review: Peter Rabbit

    Certificate PG, 95 minutes Director: Will Gluck Stars: James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson Peter Rabbit is based (perhaps somewhat loosely) on the Peter Rabbit stories by Beatrix Potter. It beings in Windermere in the Lake District with a quartet of singing birds who land on the ground where they are knocked over by a…

  • Movie Review: A Quiet Place

    Movie Review: A Quiet Place

    Certificate 15, 90 minutes Director: John Krasinski Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds A Quiet Place opens on Day 89 in an abandoned-looking town. There are no people on the streets and the shops are empty. A board has posters of a number of missing people on it. Gathering Supplies Inside one shop there…

  • Movie Review: Rampage

    Movie Review: Rampage

    Certificate 12A, 107 minutes Director: Brad Peyton Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman Rampage is, very loosely, based on the video game series of the same name. It begins with a statement that, in 1993, a gene editing method called CRISPR was discovered and that, in 2016, the method was classed as a weapon…