Review
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Film Review: Sometimes, Always, Never, starring Bill Nighy
Read more: Film Review: Sometimes, Always, Never, starring Bill NighyThree things come to mind while viewing Carl Hunter’s Sometimes, Always, Never. Bill Nighy is great in everything This feels like Moby Dick Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein quote “The limits of my language mean limits of my world”. Bill Nighy is great. He plays Alan, a scrabble obsessed man who is searching for his missing…
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Shazam: wizards, humour, and a great villain
Read more: Shazam: wizards, humour, and a great villainShazam is a story about Billy Batson (Asher Angel) who is given the powers of the wizard Shazam (Djimon Hounsou) and turns into ‘Captain Marvel’ (Zachary Levi). It is a fairly run of the mill superhero origin story that is elevated by a sense of awareness of how silly the movie is and by an…
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Movie Review: Milla Jovovich and David Harbour star in Hellboy
Read more: Movie Review: Milla Jovovich and David Harbour star in HellboySeeing as this is my first official review, I was excited to find out I get a free ice cream and popcorn to enjoy while I settle in for what I hope is a fun, silly move. Straight out of the gate I wasn’t sure that the movie had started. I thought I was watching…
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Easy soy candle making
Read more: Easy soy candle makingSoy candle making is easy. Let me talk you through it…
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Movie Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
Read more: Movie Review: Bad Times at the El RoyaleDrew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian, World War Z) writes and directs, for the second time, to bring us ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’; a movie about bad people doing bad things in a bad place. From the very beginning, ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ lays out what it is…
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Movie Review: The Old Man & The Gun starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey Affleck
Read more: Movie Review: The Old Man & The Gun starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey AffleckMovie Review: The Old Man & The Gun starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey Affleck… Starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck and with two excellent rounds of support from Tom Waits and Donald Glover, ’The Old Man & The Gun’ is a gentle, sedately paced film based on the life of career criminal…
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Movie Review: WAYNE- The Wayne Gardner Story
Read more: Movie Review: WAYNE- The Wayne Gardner StoryMovie Review: WAYNE The Wayne Gardner Story RELEASE DATE: 13/09/2018 RUNNING TIME: 95 mins DIRECTOR Jeremy Sims Enthusiastic and often emotional, WAYNE captures the complexity of a man’s passion for doing something that you love. WAYNE the film, much like its irreverent namesake, is a fun, fast-paced journey through the formative years and career highlights…
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Eye Creams – what they do, where to get them, and what they cost
Read more: Eye Creams – what they do, where to get them, and what they costAs I get older I am learning the value of a good eye cream, so I thought I’d take a look at some of the many brands available on the market across a broad price range and a variety of pharmacy, department store, and beauty spa brands. Why should I use an eye cream anyway? The…
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Film Review: Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis in TULLY
Read more: Film Review: Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis in TULLYTully, with a twist… Genre: Comedy/Drama Director: Jason Reitman Cast: Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Ron Livingston, Mark Duplass Rated: M (some nudity and sexual content) Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes So, Tully. Tully is… difficult. Charlize Theron helming as protagonist and producer, director Jason Reitman, and writer/producer Diablo Cody (of Juno fame) reunite to tell…
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Film Review: Jennifer Lawrence stars in Spy Thriller Red Sparrow
Read more: Film Review: Jennifer Lawrence stars in Spy Thriller Red SparrowRed Sparrow, based on the 2013 novel ”Red Sparrow” by Jason Matthews Genre: Spy Thriller Director: Francis Lawrence Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Noel Edgerton, Joely Richardson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling and Mary Louise Parker “Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as…