Category: review
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Ever since this blog has existed, I have managed to produce some sort of review of the year on the 31st December. I almost didn’t…
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‘Tis the day before Christmas, a day which also goes by the epithet of Christmas Eve. While one does occasionally happen upon advent calendars bestowed…
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The original incarnation of Black Christmas may not have fully stood the test of time but when you consider that it was made in 1974,…
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If at all possible, I do like to try and get at least one film into my advent calendar that was released in the year…
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Spider-Man movies are, as a general rule, fairly popular with audiences and critics alike. But as good as many of the live-action movies have been,…
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2023’s ‘straight-to-Netflix’ comedy Family Switch is objectively quite a bad film. Taking the parent-child body swapping trope and extending it to a whole family is…
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1995’s Money Train is not a movie I caught at the time of its release, although it very much ticks all the boxes in terms…
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As much as I enjoy watching a movie, one aspect of cinema I often lament is just how long some films are. I often think…
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Given that it was the seventh adaptation of the original novel, it could have been argued in advance that the world didn’t really need Greta…
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Whatever the merit’s of 2000’s The Family Man, and there are some, I am always troubled by a film which engages in the concept of…
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Appreciation of 2012’s Ted is quite possibly dependent on whether or not you can tolerate the relentless nature of writer/director Seth MacFarlane’s approach to comedy.…
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2016’s The Accountant is not really a film about accountancy but accountancy (of an admittedly implausible variety) does feature in the plot. Fortunately, so too…
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Regular readers of my annual festive countdown (if indeed such people exist) may be aware that I generally enjoy the kind of movies, which don’t…
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It turns out that there are quite a few films in existence that go by the name ‘Silent Night’. At least one of them, and…
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It would be pretty hard to make a compelling claim that Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves is a good film. Any objective viewer would surely…
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The third Harry Potter movie is a slightly less faithful adaptation of the source material than the first two films, and is all the better…
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The biggest problem with Home Alone 3 is that it’s called Home Alone 3. It’s a movie I have avoided since its 1997 release, mainly…
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I probably would never have seen 1987’s Moonstruck if I didn’t do this stupid annual list of movies with a tenuous link to Christmas. I…
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Since 2015, Charlie Cox has undoubtedly been the definitive on-screen version of Marvel’s Daredevil, which has been one of the stronger offerings of the Marvel…
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Last year, 1995’s Bad Boys made the cut for my annual countdown for the most dubious of reasons and it is a similarly questionable rationale…
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2007’s I Am Legend is, in many ways, a fairly run-of-the mill post-apocalyptic flic. It’s perfectly acceptable fare and there are worse ways to spend…
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I’ve enjoyed all of Kenneth Branagh’s outings as Hercule Poirot. It would be hard to argue a case for Branagh being the definitive version of…
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When 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels hit cinemas, it genuinely felt like the arrival of the UK’s answer to Quentin Tarantino. With the…
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2016’s The Secret Life of Pets is a largely derivative computer-animated movie that might struggle to stand out from the slew of computer-animated movies that…
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Once again the festive season is upon us and so once again I find myself strangely obliged to produce 24 posts about movies which may…
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And so ends 2024. And what a year it has been. A quick perusal of various news sites suggests quite a lot of stuff has…
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And so this is Christmas. Well Christmas Eve anyway. Which means that for another year my Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) films must draw to a…
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is, to date, the only sequel to the 1990 original that I’ve seen. I may, as a result…
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2020’s Fatman is an interesting concept that doesn’t necessarily deliver on it’s initial promise. You probably get as much out of watching the trailer as…
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The third movie to make this year’s advent calendar that was released this year is Red One. Promising to be the first entry in an…
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And so to the second of three movies to make the cut for my 2024 advent calendar that were actually released in 2024. Dear Santa…
James Proclaims! 