100 Word Review

100 Word Review – Minions

They’re plastered all over my Facebook wall with nonsense quotes, but the minions are cute and amusing. With that in mind, their movie is exactly as you’d expect. It starts off briskly as Kevin, Stuart […]

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100 Word Review – 50 Shades of Grey

Well that was…not very sexy at all. Despite the fuss 50 Shades is merely a few scenes of soft porn linked by cliché and bland performances. Dornan isn’t intimidating or particularly convincing at being commanding […]

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100 Word Review – The Signal

The Signal has ideas of grandeur. It looks impressive, but the final third drains if of all momentum, ultimately ending flatly and frustratingly incomplete.   The only intrigue I found stemmed from waiting for things […]

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100 Word Review – Wild Card

Wild Card needed to decide what it wanted to be; a cautionary gambling tale or an action film? It doesn’t commit to either, which is extremely unfair on Jason Statham. ‘The Stath’ does manage to be particularly […]

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100 Word Review – Total Recall

This retelling had countless hours spent on design, effects, and lens flare. There are also some striking action scenes. None of it matters when the story engenders nothing more than a ‘meh’ though. I can […]

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100 Word Review – The Voices

Between the rom-coms and more troubled comic book films Ryan Reynolds gets a tough time. The Voices adds to the often forgotten Buried as proof that there is far more to him than that. Reynolds […]

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100 Word Review – Stretch

Warning bells rung when I realised that even with a Hollywood cast Stretch was a VOD release. With a director of decent pedigree and an amusing trailer I wondered what prevented it hitting cinemas. Thirty […]

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100 Word Review – Son of a Gun

The usually charming Ewan McGregor swaps his smile for a semi-automatic in this tidy Australian crime story. Add his believable malevolence to his comfort with action and I wonder if this will spark a change […]