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Review: Tom Cruise Delivers Sky-High Entertainment With TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Without a doubt Top Gun: Maverick delivers one of the best mainstream Hollywood action films of the last several years. Forget your Avengers or Justice Leagues, Tom Cruise shows how to give audiences the type of entertainment that they’ve been [...]

November 18, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Josh Boone’s STUCK IN LOVE

The world of movies isn’t what it used to be. The budgets of typical Hollywood movies have grown so vast, and their marketing has become so expensive that smaller, more interesting movies have been pushed aside so that these tent pole pictures can [...]

January 10, 2021

Trailer & Poster: It Looks Like TOP GUN: MAVERICK Will Take Your Breath Away

Topping Tony Scott‘s 1986 popcorn spectacular Top Gun was never going to be easy. However, it looks like Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski are going to give it their best shot with Top Gun: Maverick. The new [...]

December 16, 2019

Highway To The Danger Zone: Trailer & Poster For TOP GUN: MAVERICK

We’ve been waiting over thirty years, but Tom Cruise is finally flying back into the danger zone. Cruise returns to the role of Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to the 1986 smash hit Top Gun. This new [...]

July 19, 2019

I Get The Feeling This Is Going To Bomb! New Trailer For ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL

I’ve been looking forward to Alita: Battle Angel for decades and you won’t find a bigger supporter of James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez – but I get the feeling that this is going to be a massive bomb. This isn’t doing [...]

November 13, 2018

Blu-ray Review: The Heat Is On In ONLY THE BRAVE

Director Joseph Kosinski takes an interesting change of pace from stylish science fiction (following on from Tron: Legacy and Oblivion) and delivers an old school Hollywood dramatic action film with Only The Brave. The film comes with a brawny [...]

March 19, 2018

Trailer For James Cameron’s ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL; Was It Worth The Wait?

I’ve been hearing about (and looking forward to) James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel (since it was known as Battle Angel Alita) for decades. That’s not hyperbole – that’s the god’s honest truth. Robert Rodriguez [...]

December 9, 2017

Melancholy Movie Marvels

Cinema has the ability to cast a spell over its audience, to keep our eyes firmly gripped to the screen and not want to even blink for fear of missing something special. What is even stranger is when that is the case despite being transported to a [...]

May 2, 2017

Chasing The Dragon: Drugs On Film

Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, coming to Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms from February 1st, 2016 courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment, is a visceral, unflinching portrayal of the war against drugs. Critically lauded and impossible to tear your [...]

January 26, 2016

DVD Review: Russell Crowe Anchors NOAH But Aronofsky’s Film Misses The Boat

Darren Aronofsky harboured dreams of making Noah for over a decade and he was finally able to achieve his goal by using the critical and commercial success of The Wrestler and Black Swan as leverage so that Paramount Pictures would stump up the [...]

August 2, 2014

DVD Review: STUCK IN LOVE Is Well Worth Your Time

November 28, 2013