Beauty & The Beast - The Time-Old Tale Of Enchantment Lacks The Charm And Magic Of The Original

As has been the case with many reboots or sequels over the last couple of years, Disney’s live-action Beauty & the Beast was itself no stranger to controversy. The scrutiny began when it was announced that Emma Watson – famous of course for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies – was cast as the beloved Belle; the not-so-villagey village girl fated to fall in love with a beastly prince in a castle not so far away. 

Hacksaw Ridge And Fifty Shades Darker

I haven't blogged in little over a week, having been busy with preparing for my upcoming trip and all. Somehow though I always managed to fit in a cinema binge. But then it has been a good few weeks since my wedding now and I'm not working, so naturally my Cineworld membership card has been calling from my wallet...

Move Over MCU And DC - The Real Titans Are Coming...

Did you know you Skull Island on Google Maps? Okay, that's only half true. Skull Island is nothing more than the fictional setting for the infamous King Kong movies - but it really is on there, courtesy of Google's sense of humour, of course. That said though, parts of the new film Kong: Skull Island were shot in Bangkok and Hawaii - real locations that I'll be visiting on my upcoming round-the-world trip (aka "Greedy Honeymoon"). But for now, let's look at the film itself.

John Wick: Chapter 2 Proves Once Again That A Puppy Isn't Just For Christmas...

With the departure of the hugely-popular (though hugely-overrated) Taken franchise having coincided with the arrival of 2014’s already-sequel’d sleeper-hit John Wick, evidently there’s still plenty of room in the market for veteran male Hollywood actors to unleash relentless chaos on the scum of the silver screen. 

Logan Isn’t A Superhero Movie – It’s A Movie About A Superhero.

2000’s X-Men made Jackman a household name, and while he was mostly absent from last year’s stinker that was X-Men: Apocalypse and 2011’s “soft reboot” X-Men: First Class (with the exception of some fun cameos), Jackman has, for the most part, dominated the X-Men cinematic landscape, serving as the figurehead for the original trilogy, spawning his own now-trilogy of spin-off films and saving the franchise from certain doom in 2014’s critically-acclaimed X-Men: Days of Future Past. Now, after having played the character to whom he is forever inseparably affiliated for a whopping seventeen years, Hugh Jackman finally hangs up the claws as he reprises his role as The Wolverine in what it to be his final outing.