Category Archives: Film

The Pirates of the Caribbean Series Review

Posted on November 30, 2023 by JC

Over the last two years much of my entertainment has been focused on pirates. By pirates, I of course mean the famous fictionalised swashbuckling version of them and not the horrible reality of piracy. I re-watched the Pirates of the … Continue reading →

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A Pretentious Pedant on the Prequels

Posted on September 15, 2023 by JC

I recently finished reading Which Lie Did I Tell? by the now deceased (but still celebrated), screenwriter and author William Goldman and I am now an expert on the art and language of film. Actually, I wouldn’t claim to be … Continue reading →

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Army of Darkness: So Good, It’s Bad!

Posted on August 6, 2023 by JC

There was a time back during my university years when I was quite obsessed with Army of Darkness and its star Bruce Campbell. At the height of all this I owned four different versions of the film including one with … Continue reading →

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The Full Degeneracy

Posted on July 4, 2023 by JC

As I’ve mentioned before, I have become increasingly conscious of just how inappropriate much media is. This usually happens when I re-watch something I saw when I was young and notice a lot of things I thankfully didn’t notice as … Continue reading →

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Hideo Kojima and Michael Bay

Posted on June 17, 2023 by JC

This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for at least ten years but never did. This is mostly because I didn’t feel I had my thoughts together enough to get my point across — and I may yet … Continue reading →

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The Best Comic Film Adaptations

Posted on May 29, 2023 by JC

Films based on comic books have been around for at least half a century but have become both a lot more common and popular in the last twenty years. So many have been made in this period that there is … Continue reading →

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Street Fighter: Ludicrous Fun

Posted on April 10, 2023 by JC

As I write, the new Super Mario Bros. Movie has been released in theatres. I haven’t seen it yet but I will be this week with my son who is around the same age I was when the live-action Super … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Phil’s Time Adventure

Posted on February 5, 2023 by JC

Groundhog Day had its theatrical release in the United States thirty years ago as I write. It stars Bill Murray, Andy MacDowell and was directed by Harold Ramis. It was the last time Ramis and Murray worked together on a … Continue reading →

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A Picture of Petty Tyranny

Posted on January 22, 2023 by JC

Office Space is a 1999 film directed by Mike Judge and loosely based on his Milton animated shorts. I previously reviewed Idiocracy and intended to come back and cover this at some stage which I am now doing. Though I … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of the Replication of Electric Sleep

Posted on September 30, 2022 by JC

This is the first time I’ve mentioned Blade Runner on this blog which is not surprising as it is one of those films that has had so much written about it that it is hard to come up with anything … Continue reading →

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