This was not a fun movie. I’ll admit right from the first ads I saw on tv, I wanted to see this one because I have a crush on both Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro. And I also love movies with a strong female protagonist see Zero Dark Thirty. I liked that one because […]
Like most things in my life, we never do things by half measures and nothing could be more true than my current fixation with Batman, or as I like to call him, Christian Bale, the best Batman ever. Bale starred in Batman Begins, the first in a trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan followed by Dark Knight […]
It started back in December, when we weren’t really at home at all. We were on holiday in Tulum, Mexico at an all-inclusive with our kids and at night, all that ever seemed to be on the television was Lady and the Tramp. But one night we got lucky, and tuned in to see this fabulous […]
“Thanks to my Uncle Tommy in China, we get another chance at this.” What? They left this in the script? How can that be? One of the great problems with The Martian is the writing. Because even after astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, is left for dead on Mars, he manages to survive beyond […]
What a treat to find Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman in the robes of Harry Potter The Prisoner of Azkaban. This third installation of the J.K. Rowling series might be the best of the first three, especially with the children growing up into their adolescent selves and watching their chemistry on-screen blossom. I remember reading […]
The cast is pretty special with Stanley Tucci, Ewan McGregor and Nicolas Hoult, but this strange little fairy tale at times feels more like an episode of Lost than a story about a beanstalk. There’s the damsel in distress, so like Evangeline Lilly, and Hoult very like Matthew Fox. This strange world of CGI sets and […]
I wish I could say I walked out of the theatre with a look of wonder in my eyes. With that feeling that the Leo Dicaprio from the Titanic was back. He was a boy I fell in love with about 20 years ago and I haven’t seen him since. Where did he go? I […]
J.E. Reddington 