LA And Seattle

There are very few good things to say about the central Hollywood Boulevard area, if any at all. I didn’t even really want to come back to LA this time around. But if you’ve seen my last post on the awesome theme parks here then you’ll know why we did. Our 2014 visit to LA was quite eye-opening at the time, but that’s not to suggest we had a bad experience when not in the parks, and nor did we this time. It just wasn’t a great one.

A Curious Wookie At Disneyland And Universal Studios

If you know us personally (that’s me and Sian), then you’ll have no doubt attended our wedding earlier this year. That means you know we’re a right pair of Disney buffs - and film buffs too. So naturally, during our visit to LA we visited both Disneyland and Universal Studios.

Wonder Woman Review

The past year hasn't seen much luck for the DCEU. That's not to say last year's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad were financial catastrophes, but critical ones they were, with their biggest downfalls being their focus on future movies rather than themselves (in a bid of course to catch up with the superior MCU), and with narratives made painfully-incoherent through some generally bad writing and post-editing. And though we've familiarised ourselves with the Wonder Woman and Justice League trailers over the past six or so months, it seemed that all hope was already lost; that the franchise would never do any better than Man of Steel and was doomsday'd to fail. 

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Review

For a film franchise based on a long-time popular Disneyland attraction, Pirates of the Caribbean really know how to flog a dead horse (that’s actually not a bad subtitle), with its fifth instalment Dead Men Tell No Tales having now arrived at cinema shores worldwide.

Get Out Review

When it comes to the horror genre it’s more than fair to say that originality is dead, at least more so in concept than execution. Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out might be no exception, but it does in part offer a semi-interesting approach to the age-old get out of that house alive formula while providing an acceptable level of comedy that doesn’t compromise the scares.

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.