Sunday, 15 February 2015

Annabelle




If you remember to the fawaway year of 2013 you will recall a short prologue at the beginning of the horror hit The Conjuring about some creepy doll that haunts a pair of nurses. The film, Annabelle, is simply about how the doll fell into their possession. John and Mia Form (Ward Horton and Annabelle Wallis) are a happily married couple with a baby along away, it is all seemingly blissful and perfect that is until two nutters from the cult The Disciples of the Ram invade their home and in the process impart an evil spirit into the Annabelle doll

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Whiplash



The circlejerking of this film on sites such as Reddit, IMDB, and other sites all over the internet has been nothing short of overwhelming to those who have yet to see it. The thousands of word of mouth responses that have sung its praises and drummed up anticipation gave the film the impossible task of matching the crescendo of praise that has repeatedly been heaped upon it. So to report that Whiplash is nothing short of absolutely extraordinary is greatly pleasing. Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is a student at New York's Shaffer Conservatory music school, there he joins the community band under the stewardship of Terence Fletcher (J.K Simmons) as they compete at a national Jazz festival. The film's central story is based on a student-teacher relationship, where the student shows promise and the teacher is determined to squeeze that potential out of him in ways that make Scrubs’Dr Cox’s teaching methods look as though they wouldn’t mentally harm a five year old.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Jupiter Ascending

Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) is apparently the exact recantation of a mother of three royal siblings vying for control of planet Earth, this of course totally unknown to her until a half wolf, half human crossbreed named Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) saves her from Balem Abrasax's (Eddie Redmayne) agents and introduces her to a world where alien royalty harvest the residents of planet Earth (and other planets) for their own Darwinist creation that halts the aging process and essentially grants them immortality. As she is seen as the exact recantation of the mother, the will asked for the ownership of Planet Earth be passed down to her but stuff happens and each of three sibling's want Earth for their selves.

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles (2014)



The plot the 2014 reboot of Teenage Ninja Mutant Turles isn't greatly disimilar to that of the live action films over twenty years ago in which the central the story follows April O'Neil's (Megan Fox) desperate attempts to prove that there is a crime fighting vigilante group consisting of genetically modified turtles, unsurprisngly nobody believes her. However, deep in the sewers of New York there is indeed a crime fighting vigilante group consisting of genetically modified turtles and when New York is a target of a chemical attack they leap to the city's defence.

Gone Girl



Based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, David Fincher's movie adaption stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne whose wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has disappeared in an apparent struggle. Eventually Nick becomes the main suspect of the investigation and media make him their target of their vulture like behaviour as they circle around their prey hoping to stumble across a mistake from Nick that will compound his guilt. So as Nick is public enemy number one having a young student (Emily Ratajkowski) as a bit on the side isn't going to help in the slightest.

Saturday, 31 January 2015

The Equalizer





Robert McCall is a retired Black Ops agent who now works in a hardware store. He lives a relatively lonely life as he has no family to speak of, however he goes down to the local cafe everyday and he meets teenage prostitute Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz). Robert finds her pimp and dispatches him and his cronies expertly. This leads to Russian gangster leader Vladimir Pushkin sending his enforcer Teddy (Martin Csokas) in retaliation and this leads to a violent game of cat and mouse.

Sunday, 25 January 2015

The Interview




Dave Skylark (James Franco) hosts Skylark Tonight, a chat show that focuses on the wired side of the news. The producer, Arron Rapoport (Seth Rogan), wishes to produce a serious report to boost the credibility of the chat show. The ideal opportunity seems to present itself when it is discovered that the Supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong un (Randall Park), is a big fan of Skylark Tonight. Using Skylark Tonight's popularity with the Supreme Leader, Arron manages to get an interview with the leader of the secretive nation. The CIA use this opportunity to instruct the journalists to assassinate the dangerous Kim Jong un.