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Optimus Prime on a Dinobot in Transformers: Age of Extinction

‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ review: A film that defies all attempts to label it

Post author:JL
Post published:July 3, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews

There are blockbusters, and there are *BLOCKBUSTERS* — the latter arriving in theatres screaming themselves hoarse with whizzbang special effects and ostentatious, ubiquitous publicity campaigns. Transformers: Age of Extinction falls firmly on the extreme end of the latter category, and will probably remain the end point of the scale until Michael Bay tops it, once again, with the untitled-but-practically-guaranteed Transformers 5. For now, it's safe to say I have never seen a louder, more epilepsy-inducing, incoherent film in my life.

Emily Blunt (Rita Vrataski) and Tom Cruise (Major William Cage) in Edge of Tomorrow

‘Edge of Tomorrow’ review (with bonus ‘Chef’ and ‘Maleficent’ reviews): LOVE ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Liked ‘Chef’. ‘Maleficent’ is ok.

Post author:JL
Post published:June 14, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews Show Business

Here's another massively overdue review bonanza. Unfortunately, I'm always watching things much faster than I write about them, so sometimes it's stale news by the time I post them.

Younger Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets older Charles (Patrick Stewart) in X-Men: Days of Future Past

‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ review: Loved the movie, but didn’t LOVE the movie

Post author:JL
Post published:May 31, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews Me and the Movies

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is great, though it couldn't live up to my sky high expectations. Mostly because I hate what they did with younger Erik (Michael Fassbender).

‘Godzilla’ and ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ reviews: One is much better than the other

Post author:JL
Post published:May 21, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews

This is going to be long, because I procrastinated on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review, and now I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone. So bear with me. All the spoilers ahead.

Russell Crowe as Noah in the self-titled movie

‘Noah’ review: A weird acid trip retelling of Noah’s Ark

Post author:JL
Post published:April 24, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews

Noah is a visualisation of what Noah's ark and the Flood would be like -- if the storyteller was on acid.

Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America) and Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanov/Black Widow) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ review: A smartly written political thriller

Post author:JL
Post published:March 30, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews Favourite Films

Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America) and Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanov/Black Widow) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America's second standalone outing goes where previous…

Shailene Woodley (Tris) and Theo James (Four) in Divergent

‘Divergent’ review: Watch for hot actor

Post author:JL
Post published:March 20, 2014
Post category:Books to Film Movie Reviews

Going into Divergent, I had very little idea what to expect. While nothing beats Twilight for terrible story (that still inexplicably earned hundreds of millions of dollars and literally devil-spawned four equally successful movie sequels), Divergent had a convoluted-sounding plot that made me never want to read the books, so I was skeptical of how good the movie could be.

Liam Neeson as air marshal Bill Marks in Non-Stop

‘Non-Stop’ review: Air Vigilante

Post author:JL
Post published:February 28, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews

If you like conspiracy thrillers like Flightplan and Unknown, and action movies like Taken, you'll surely like Non-Stop, which melds all these genres in a film put together specially for Liam Neeson, the star of the latter two movies. A Hitchcockian thriller set in the confines of an airplane, Non-Stop keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering whodunit, whydunit, howdunit, what-on-earth-is-it, and coming up with some fairly ludicrous theories along the way in your bid to preempt the reveal.

Chris Pine (Jack Ryan) and Kevin Costner (Thomas Harper) in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ review: Run-of-the-mill, but not unenjoyable

Post author:JL
Post published:February 5, 2014
Post category:Movie Reviews

Some Russians living in the past are planning the collapse of the U.S. economy, and it's up to a brilliant CIA analyst to stop them. If this plot sounds familiar, it's because every other action movie ever made, save those about unstoppable vehicles or sci-fi elements (and sometimes not even then), has it, give or take a few minor changes: the nationality of the villains, the "thing" they want to collapse, the government organisation of the hero's vocation.

Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Nan Yu in The Expendables 2

‘The Expendables 2’ review: A big old ’80s-flashback action cheese-fest

Post author:JL
Post published:December 5, 2013
Post category:Movie Reviews

Ah, the nostalgia, watching action stars of the '80s stage a comeback! Saw The Expendables 2 last night, and I couldn't stop laughing at all these hulking, muscled men, tendons popping out, grunting through their lines. Their cheesy lines. It's so rife with cliches, glaring showdowns, ridiculously overblown action, bad plot devices and one-note, unspeakably evil villains that it's essentially one big cheese-fest poking fun of itself.