Anne Hathaway, you will always be famous. A literal icon
John and Amanda are so bloody sassy in this film, I want to give John a big hug, bless him.
Fantastic idea, something I've not seen done before in a TV show with this kind of budget. I think the narrative was slightly lacking however, it just wasn't quite up to scratch with some of the best Black Mirror episodes. But really fun and wasn't bored at any point.
8/10
What a wonderful, beautiful and sad story. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper were simply outstanding in this film and i can't wait to see it again! Bradley Cooper came out the gate swinging with his directorial debut and can't wait to see what he does next. The music was amazing, almost every track pretty much worked for me. One of the best of 2018 so far, easily.
- 9.2/10
What an excellent gem of a horror / thriller. It does start off a little bit slow paced, and has the characters make some seriously stupid choices throughout. But despite that this film had some great tense scenes, fantastic performances from the entire cast, especially Emily Blunt. A bit of a disappointing final scene but overall, a great and unique horror that I can't wait to watch again.
8.2/10
Oh you go girl, you go girl.
Being straight up and honest but I had no anticipation for this film whatsoever. The trailers were cool and Gal Gadot looked perfect for the role from what I could tell, the problem was I never really cared for the character of Wonder Woman, admittedly I don't really care for any superheroes unless your name is Batman. And with the DCEU track record being abysmal, Suicide Squad being one of the biggest disappointments since my birth, Batman V Superman just being utter shite and appreciating Man of Steel but if not really being my thing, it was easy for me to go into this film with the lowest expectations.
I can safely say this is the best 'superhero' film I've seen since 'The Dark Knight Rises'. It's not a perfect film and not even close to being on the level of the Dark Knight trilogy, it doesn't need to be though because this is hopefully the first big step into making the DCEU into something...well, simply put, better.
First off, Gal Gadot, she owns the role of Wonder Woman and can honestly say nobody could've done a better job. She sold every aspect of the character to me, whether she's killing Germans or having more of the heart felt moments with Chris Pine's character, it all works incredibly well. You do have your basic 3 ark structure when it comes to these kinds of films, Origin, Action, 1V1. But it's the moments in between all of this that makes the film special and better than the rest. I found some of the smaller moments between Diana and to feel natural and didn't come off cheesy like it so easily could have, great chemistry together and really help flesh out her character even more when she's thrown into his world and we see it through her eyes, in great comedic taste might I add.
The action scenes are also spectacular, some of the CG and green screen downs unfortunately stand out and become blatantly obvious at times, but I can almost forgive that just because of how well choreographed it all was.
My biggest flaw and sadly it seems to be like this whether it's marvel or DC; villains (minus Heath Ledgers Joker don't worry). Yet again we find another generic 'I want to kill people' villain, just found the villain characters so bland and was there just to have a 'threat' and a big fight at the end, got to have a big fight at the end of what's the point right?
All in all, I found this to be a fun action film, but with some great heartfelt moments dotted through out, more than I thought there would be and that's what made this film a little bit more special to the rest. Gal Gadot does an incredible job at playing Diana and if anything, at least we'll have her in Justice League if all else fails in that film. Saying that however, I do hope all the trashy DC films are behind us and we can move onwards and upwards.
- 8.2/10
Had the potential to be an 8/10, but for me I think they focused way too much on the girl bully and I believe the ending could've been a little better by showing a bit more of their actual 'relationship'. That aside I loved the animation and simple yet in depth story of depression, love and friendship. Seems a bit overlooked this film and I do think it's special. 7.9/10
What a wonderful and magical experience that was. For someone who isn't a fan of musicals, if anything they're my least favorite genre of film, I found myself to fall in love with this film. The dance and song sequences never came off as too cheesy or forced in to have that 'musical' moment, they felt like they deserved to be there and were all just fantastic to watch.
The chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone will most likely go down in film history, every line they delivered was done so well and I hope they both win an Oscar for their performances.
You wouldn't think a film like this would exist in 2017, but I'm glad it does. Whiplash was my favorite film of 2014 and I can safely say this is my favorite of 2016. I can't wait to see what Damien Chazelle brings to us next.
La La Land - 10/10
Would have loved to have given this a better rating, unfortunately I found the story itself to be pretty basic and not a lot really happened when I look back on it. Luckily Tom Hardy does such an incredible job here that it makes it a watchable film, I think without him it really would have fallen flat. Can't deny that Emily Browning did a decent job too. - 7/10
Would have liked to have given this a higher rating, did find the ADR a little off putting at times though, and some of the sound design for the fight sequences were so over the top ha! But that's nit picking really, solid story and great characters, look forward to watching the second one!
What a beautiful film, I wasn't too sure at the start, like I didn't really know where it was going and was aiming for a 6 or 7/10. But by those last 20 minutes this film blew my mind, made the entire 110 minutes worth it and can't wait to watch it a second time because of that. - 8.5/10
Definitely proffered the first but still a fun film that didn't drag out, the actual film length is under 90 minutes excluding credits which I can appreciate, again I felt Zac Efron made this film for me. - 7/10
A decent movie yes, what's annoying however is how great it could have been. All the acting is fantastic here, especially Johnny Depp, like this is seriosuly the best I've seen him in a long time, but the movie just fails to deliver on intense and interesting scenes like a lot of mob / gangster movies do. Nothing original here really either and is pretty easy to predict where the movie is going to go. Phenominal acting, some good scenes dotted throughout, bit it's just the potential this had that botheres me more than anything, and that I could've done with more Dakota Johnson becuase hey, it's Dakota Johnson!
Black Mass - 7.1/10
