If Hell Is Really That Hot, Then It Must Be Bangkok…

Thanks to very poor WiFi availability here in New Zealand, this post is coming to you a little late seeing as we left Bangkok some nine days ago for Auckland. It’s safe to say that the best way to start this post is to address just how nightmarishly-hot Bangkok – and undoubtedly the rest of Thailand, though we didn’t venture too far from the city. Okay, we drove a good four hours out to an Elephant Day Care centre on the River Kwai but more on that in the next post. 

Boss Baby Review

       It's not hard to believe Alec Baldwin looked and acted like this as a baby...

Tim is your average, well-behaved nine-or-something-year-old; he likes bedtime stories, loves his parents and loves hugs from them even more and doesn't really want anything else. He's the perfect child that probably doesn't exist, and will likely become the most unrealistic teenager off-screen after the credits roll too. But when his parents bring a baby in a suit home (Alec Baldwin of course), his world is turned inside out and he's no longer the centre of his parents' universe. And when he learns that the baby can also talk in an adult voice and is a bit of a douche, things go from bad to worse for Tim. But also for the film.

Take Note, Cineworld...

I realise I've talked only about movies on this blog so far, but as always seems to be the case, I've got a bit of a backlog with my reviews. This doesn't mean I'm slow at putting up reviews, though - it probably just means I watch way too many movies! That, and I'm only a few days into my trip, and I don't want to talk about Bangkok too much just yet. I want to save that post for when we're about to leave for New Zealand later this week, as a lot can happen between now and then.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Squirm...

                     

When I saw the trailer, my first words to Sian were something like "I've seen this film a hundred times - I'm not interested." The plot: a team of scientists aboard a space station in orbit discover a microscopic alien life form, which soon turns nasty and starts killing them all one-by-one in a gory fashion. It doesn't reek of originality, but then what film does these days? 

With Cinema Suffocated By The Likes Of Marvel And DC, The Power Rangers Reboot Makes Its Superhero-Landing At The Right Morphin’ Time

                            A breakfast club you certainly won't forget about...

There seems to be such a pattern forming with films being targeted with controversy, doubt, hate and scrutiny, that you can almost expect these things to now form part of the promotional material and marketing strategy for most franchise films. But it probably doesn’t help when a film’s advertising is conducted mostly through its merchandise counterparts. And in the case of Power Rangers 2017, it was the toys.

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.