
Be easier to like if its predecessors hadn’t been so excellent. Entirely generic except with apes.
★★★
Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Be easier to like if its predecessors hadn’t been so excellent. Entirely generic except with apes.
★★★
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

Damn this is a good looking movie. Other than that, it is what it is and it does it pretty well. However, I’m not sure what Brie Larson’s character (does she even have a name?) brings to this other than some Ann Darrow parallel, which is barely more than hinted at. Still, she does better out of it than Jing Tian…
★★★½
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low-budget horror with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.

This review may contain spoilers.
Bit disappointed we never found out what happened to Nina. However, that does leave guilt and grief as the explanation and, as the outcome emphasises the depth of those feelings, it becomes more unsettling than some “sinful” motivation. Even with the significant time lapse, it still feels credible, which is some accomplishment.
★★★½ (contains spoilers)
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
When a foster home placed teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to find out the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with UFO expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.

If this was in 6 parts, it could have been a TV show I watched as a kid and I’d have loved it 😊
★★★½
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

Not my choice for family pizza ‘n’ film night…
It was just about bearable. Unusually, I don’t think there was much wrong with the flim. I’d even go so far to say that the lead was good and Courtney and Teller made genuinely hissable villains.
But the souce material is pretty lame. It’s all very laboured and predictable.
★★½
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

I cried so much at the end of this movie that we stayed so long the cleaners came in. Absolutely heartbroken, I was.
I could never watch it again.
★★★★★
All the major DC superheroes are starring in their own films, all but the Teen Titans, so Robin is determined to remedy this situation by getting over his role as a sidekick and becoming a movie star. Thus, with a few madcap ideas and an inspirational song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.

I’m not exactly a fan of the TV show but this is clever, funny and short. Other superhero movies could take note…
★★★★
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.

As comic book movies go, it’s pretty great, but while I hate to pick on one actor, whenever Selma Blair is on the screen she literally sucks all the fun out of it. I don’t really know the character and maybe she’s playing it exactly as intended/directed but, stone me, it’s jarringly depressive.
And, while I do have a soft spot for practical effects, Samael looks a little too much like a guy on all fours in a rubber suit. I’m not saying that can’t work, it worked pretty well in Attack the Block, but here…
Other than that, the post-Matrix super-human leaping and environmental destruction are ace. Some (literally) smashing stunt work too!
Lastly, I think Pearlman makes a great Hellboy.
★★★