Category: Films
El Chicano (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng]
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The super-hero film craze has proven to be popcorn-pleasing box office gold over the last several years or so within Hollywood circles. Plus, street cred dramas basking in drugs and gangs tend to capitalise on the gritty, realistic aspects of confrontational entertainment. Additionally, what are the chances that supplying your super-hero spectacle with macabre edginess […]
Sonic The Hedgehog (2019) (movie trailer).
Is it now time for a movie based on Sonic The Hedgehog? It seems so. This film hitting November 2019 is a live-action adventure comedy based on the Sega game. The film follows the misadventures of Sonic as he navigates the complexities of life on Earth with his newfound – human – best friend Tom […]
Swamp Thing (DC movie trailer).
Here’s the first trailer for the DC Swamp Thing film. This is one comic-strip and character that I could never get into, even back in the Golden Age of my youth. It seemed a complete waste of perfectly good pulp paper – like trying to engage with the emotional journey of the contents of a […]
Gemini Man (scifi movie trailer).
In the scifi thriller Gemini Man, Henry Brogen, an old assassin now looking to embrace retirement, finds himself battling a younger clone version of himself who is able to predict his every move.
Assimilate (horror movie trailer): all your bodies are ours.
In the horror-scifi movie Assimilate, some good old Invasion of the Body Snatchers/The Thing-style action comes into the fore when a group of people shooting a documentary inside their city realise their fellow citizens and neighbours are being murdered and replaced by alien creatures who are perfect duplicates of the original victims.
Aladdin (5th movie trailer) but was it magic for you?
Here’s the next trailer for the Disney live-action movie for Aladdin – the 5th trailer, which certainly makes this well-trailed. I should hate this toon-to-real type-thing on ‘cash cow’ principles alone, but it’s actually growing on me. The oddly much-maligned Will Smith looks like he’s doing a stand-up job in this one.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) (Blu-ray film review).
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ leads on from the previous ‘Avengers’ film, totally ignoring how Peter Parker gained his powers and the death of his Uncle Ben. The weirdest thing is at the rate his Aunt May is getting younger, I’m almost expecting her to turn up attending the same university he’ll be going to. Don’t kids have […]
Men In Black 4 International (second movie trailer).
A London-based team of Men in Black secret agents become involved in a series of alien attacks by ETs who can shape-shift (Skrulls, anyone?) and are trying to infiltrate the MIB agency. Actor Chris Hemsworth reunites with his Thor Ragnarok co-star, Tessa Thompson, in Men in Black International, for some new alien ass-kicking action – […]
Godzilla II: King of the Monsters: final monster (trailer).
Here’s the new and last trailer for the upcoming Godzilla 2 movie, aka Godzilla II: King of the Monsters. This latest instalment tracks the efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its agents face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the […]
The Curse Of La Llorona (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng]
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While the protagonists in director Michael Chaves flimsy frightfest ‘La Llorona’ feel the so-called ominous curse at large, some moviegoers may feel their own brand of cursing courtesy of a hackneyed horror film that revisits the tired tale of macabre mythology. However, ‘The Curse Of La Llorona’ has somewhat of an excuse to exist given […]
