Calling Out To All Ghostbusters Fans: Upcoming Film Needs Your Contribution!

It's probably no mystery to you that I’m a pretty big Ghostbusters fan. You might have seen a selfie of me with the StayPuft that was breaking out of the concourse in Waterloo Station ahead of last year’s reboot (which surprisingly didn’t cause any mass hysteria amongst commuters), as well as one of me in the London Film and Comic Con the year before with Dana Barrett herself (okay, there is no Dana – only Sigourney Weaver). This was followed by some in Torquay shortly after at the Optimus Comic Con, where I had the pleasure of meeting many more stars from the original films: Mark Bryan Wilson (Slimer and the Librarian Ghost), Robin Shelby (Ghostbusters II’s Slimer and now the reboot’s Mrs Slimer), Billy Bryan (the StayPuft Marshmallow Man) and Ghostbuster himself Ernie Hudson (Winston Zeddemore).

This Summer, Dive Into The Fun And The Action With The Baywatch Movie

If you were ever a fan of the hugely-popular TV show, then the, ahem, premise, needs not explaining. But just in case you spent the 90's living on the Moon, then here it is - at least in its primitive form before all the spin-offs and direct-to-video movies came along: It's a drama about a lifeguard crew that works the beaches of Los Angeles, with a little action thrown in here and there for good measure. That pretty much sums it up. But let's face it; it was only a matter of time before it received the inevitable Hollywood-makeover.

Kauai Part II: The Not-So-Lost Jurassic World

Following on from my post on our Jurassic Falls experience, during our stay on Kauai we stayed in Kapaa, located on the east coast of the island. And let me first mention that it was the best accommodation we've ever stayed in. The campus, composed of accommodation blocks, was surrounded by tall palm trees, and beyond them gorgeous green mountains. 

The Real Isla Nublar

I remember one of my very first blog posts where I joked about King Kong’s Skull Island being on Google Maps. It is on there as a bit of a joke, but of course it doesn’t actually exist in any shape or form, although scenes from the latest Kong movie were shot on location in Vietnam as well as Kualoa Ranch in Hawai'i. However, there is a fictional island that pretty much does exist: Jurassic Park’s Isla Nublar...

Oahu, Hawai'i

Our time in Hawai'i saw us spend four days on Oahu and the following four days on the island of Kauai, where you'll remember we visited Manawaiopuna Falls - more commonly known as Jurassic Falls. This absurdly-majestic natural construction was used in the original Jurassic Park movie when our characters land on Isla Nublar by helicopter, but I won't talk about that experience just yet. Instead, like I did with Kualoa Ranch, I’m going to give it a post of its own. Why? Because Jurassic Park. 

Alien: Covenant Review - In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn...

The bitch might be back, but this time it's hardly war

2012's Prometheus was rightfully ill-received, given its unbelievably incoherent plot and the convoluted mess that was the origin of the once-simplistic xenomorph, not to mention a horribly out of place back story about the creation of both the alien species and mankind itself. From there it seemed only hopeful that its follow-up, designed to act as both sequel as well as yet another irrelevant prequel to 1979’s Alien, would be an opportunity for director Ridley Scott to at least retcon those mistakes and go back to basics, returning us to the horror roots that made the original and two out of its three direct sequels work. 

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Volume 2 Is A Groot Sequel...

The old and the new join the awesome mix

After both the critical and financial success of the original back in 2014, there was never any doubt that an inevitable sequel had a lot to live up to. Never mind that this is the fifteenth entry in the MCU, because the one of many things Guardians nailed was establishing its own identity in an otherwise generic-feel franchise. 

MoDana..?

Paradise comes at a price (literally)

After spending a month in New Zealand, we headed for Fiji; the chain of tropical islands in the South Pacific. There, we embarked on a tour with ‘Awesome Adventures’ which took us to four islands, each with a ‘unique’ resort of its own. Well, as unique as an island resort next to a beach can be, of course. Here though, I think ‘unique’ translates into ‘standards.’

Welcome To Jurassic Park...

At Kualoa Ranch, the gates to Jurassic Park are always open

Since landing in Honolulu, Hawai'i a few days ago, we haven't just been lucky enough to visit the city zoo where scenes from Jurassic World were filmed (see the elephant pictures below, whose enclosure doubled as the film's Gentle Giants petting zoo), but just yesterday morning we were even luckier to visit the real thing. Yes, we spent the day in Oahu's Kualoa Ranch, where the box-office monsters Jurassic Park and Jurassic World were filmed, in 1992 and 2014, respectively. 

The Fate Of The Furious Aka Fast & Furious 8 Aka Fast 8 Aka GTA: The Movie

Charlize quickly regretted saying, "Don't look, but I think I know that guy..."

After spending the morning – or at least ten minutes of it – falling from an aeroplane above the Fox Glacier outside the epic mountain town of Franz Josef, I was pumped and in the mood for some more adrenaline by the evening. From the safety and comfort of a cinema seat, of course. It seemed the skydive demanded a lot of energy and by nightfall I was feeling pretty exhausted, so it made sense to relax and watch the latest The Fast & the Furious instalment, The Fate of the Furious, also confusingly known as Fast & Furious 8 or Fast 8. Why not just keep it simple eh, guys?