Category: movies

My Favourite Five awesome movies with terrible sequels that redeemed themselves in the third chapter

My Favourite Five awesome movies with terrible sequels that redeemed themselves in the third chapter.

^ man, what a title!

Basically, this is trilogies where the first and third movies are great and the second is somewhat terrible … Continue reading “My Favourite Five awesome movies with terrible sequels that redeemed themselves in the third chapter”

REVIEW: Terminator Genisys

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Let’s step back in time a second to September 1991. I was a lad all of 13 years old and I had just witnessed as close to a perfect science fiction film as I will ever see. That movie was Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the James Cameron masterpiece that took the brilliant ideas introduced in his 1984 original and expanded and explored them further than anyone could have hoped for. The ending of Judgment Day ended on a perfect, optimistic note, and I walked out of the cinema happy knowing that Cameron’s one-two punch of Terminator films was complete.

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Thoughts of Jurassic World (2015)

To be honest, I really wasn’t excited to see this movie. I’m a huge fan of dinosaurs and the Jurassic Park franchise but to me this movie seemed like pointless and unnecessary add on to an already completed trilogy. But I went along, and this is what I thought …

SPOILERS!

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My Favourite Five: Johnny Depp Character Transformations

There are those actors who give the same style performance playing pretty much the same character each time (with a change of accent or costume) and then there are those who really transform for a role and give it everything. Here are five times Johnny Depp has proven he can adapt and deliver the goods with appearance, body language and voice.

5.) SWEENEY TODD
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My Favourite Five: Childhood Movies

Everyone has a selection of movies that in one way or another shaped a part of their childhood or at the very least stayed with them well into their adult years. Here are the five movies that have made it to my list. I struggled to narrow it down as I have watched many movies that I have enjoyed or remember well. In the end, I had to go with what had the strongest connection for me.

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