The Movie Addict

There haven’t been many Marvel films since Endgame that I can say that I have really enjoyed. Guardians 3 was perhaps the closest that I have really enjoyed and Eternals was the low point. It’s been a rough couple of years for Marvel but with the recent announcement that Robert Downey Jr is returning to play Dr Doom, the question remains as to whether this signals a change in fortunes for Marvel. The short answer is…..potentially. If we get films that are fun and less tv shows which don’t cater to anyone then Marvel might get back to its glory days. The plot isn’t really important, it's just about watching Deadpool try and convince Wolverine to do things.  The film makes many many many references to Fox’s days of owning the X-Men franchise and when Deadpool runs towards the camera and F**k Fox that did make me chuckle as did the line about Disney making Jackman do the Wolverine stuff until he’s 90. There are so many jokes in this film that if one didn’t work for you then don’t...

I’m not sure if the world really needed a Twisters sequel but here we are. 28 years after the Bill Paxton and Holly Hunter we get a sequel which isn’t really a sequel as there is no connection to the first one. There are no returning characters, there are no nods to the previous film. There are a couple of references that the film makes but they aren’t pushed in your faces and will only stand out if you have seen the first one. The use of Dorothy is perhaps the biggest one but they do have a part of the film where an actual film is being watched. In Twister it was The Shining but in this film it was Frankenstein. Presumably to say that the tornado is the monster. Also a perhaps not knowingly but Kate is dressed quite similar to Helen Hunt in the previous movie. The set up of the film is Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a Tornado Chaser and after her boyfriend and two friends are killed, the story moves along five years with Kate is lured back by her one friend that did survive Javi who...

Longlegs is a film that seems to have been getting quite a lot of buzz which is unusual for a horror film that isn't a familiar property like Halloween. I went in to this film not knowing much apart from the fact that Nicholas Cage is in it and its directed by Osgood Perkins who is the man that directed Gretel & Hansel and The Blackcoat's Daughter. The set THE GOOD One thing that Perkins is very good at is atmosphere. The plot isn't a million miles from what we would see on some criminal procedural drama but in the hands of Perkins, it is made to feel like its greater than it actually is. The slow pace is also something that I liked as it something that will always win me over if its done in the right way. There is slow and then painfully slow and this film never did that. There are also the performances from Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. I went to see this film with a friend and he thought that Monroe was a bit wishy washy but I found to be really good. There is a...

This is the third film in the X series after X & Pearl with MaXXXine taking place six years after the events of X. We follow Maxine as she tries to become a movie star in Hollywood whilst there is a serial killer in town. The film takes advantage of the type of horror films that existed in the 1980’s so this has a more more traditional plot like a lot of 80’s horror films have. MaXXXine is soon connected to the deaths of the women by the police and soon a private detective is following her to try and force her to meet his client.  There is a portion of the film which takes place around the Bates Motel and House from Psycho II which was released in 1986 the following year this film was set and normally its a sign that the film has nothing left when it starts invoking better horror films (FYI Psycho 2 is a very good horror film and well worth your time), however this film manages to get away with it. The whole idea of having Maxine become a movie star helps create this atmos...

I’ll be honest that I wouldn't normally have gone to see a romcom with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum but at the cinema I go to they had a special screening at a reduced price so I thought why not? Johansson plays Katy who is hired by Woody Harrelson’s Mo to try and put a positive spin on NASA after a series of mishaps and Channing Tatum’s Cole isn't pleased with the changes she is implementing just as he is trying to get Apollo 11 literally off the ground and Katy is then told to fake the film landing in case the real moon landing fails.  The romance part of the story didn't bother me as much as I thought it would and thats because its not really a soppy romance film. There is a connection between Katy and Cole but its clear that this is going to thaw as the story progresses and it does so that means the Apollo 11 part of the story takes centre stage which I liked because that was the more interesting story as opposed to the Katy/Cole love story. Scarlett Johans...