It’s the most wonderful time of the year… you know how the song goes, so yes it’s that time of the year where Christmas movies are thrown at us left right and center, so here’s a heads up on what is going to be happening this Christmas on my blog. 

Everyday starting from the first of December I will be posting a review of a Christmas movie whether it be a drama, horror, comedy or a classic like it’s a wonderful life, so just to clarify everyday starting from this Thursday I will be posting a review everyday up until the 24th of December. If you have any suggestions whether it would be your all time favourite Christmas movie or one that you have recently seen let me know by commenting and I will make a list of all the suggestions I get.

But until then from me to you merry Christmas.

See what I did there…. So yes the Star Wars franchise returns to the cinema screens with amazing results, the film has broke… Well not broke but smashed box office records making the fastest film to earn 12 million, Avatar managed to do it in thirteen days but Star Wars managed to it in twelve, yeah twelve days to earn 12 million amazing, so let’s take are tie-fighters and x-wings and fly in to a galaxy far far away… I wonder how Star Wars puns I can fit in to this review.

So if you you haven’t  seen this film then Luke no further because there will be no spoilers here… See what i did there anyway the film introduces some new characters including brand new terrifying villain Kylo Ren, oh believe me when I say terrifying I mean terrifying, we have new Stormtroopers who work for the First Order, one of them is called Finn, he then meets Rey a scavenger on the planet Jakku, who then meets BB-8 who is arguably the most cutest droid out there.

They go on to meet Han Solo and Chewbacca, who help BB-8 to find Luke Skywalker who has disappeared, and the only way to find him is a map, and there you go the plot for the force awakens no spoilers at all. I absolutely loved loved loved this movie it’s a proper throwback to the old trilogies none of that prequel rubbish  anyway it’s a really fun film, when the titles come on and we see the line ” a long time ago in a galaxy far far away” be prepared for the most well known theme tune out there you know it I know lets sing it together… Ahem… Daaaaa dadadada dadadadadadadaaaa dadada da da dada da daaaa da dada da daaaa da dadadaaaaa….. You get the point. Anyway I give this film a solid 10/10 it’s awesome it’s action packed it’s amazing.

Quentin Tarantino’s debut hit has finally found its way on to my collection of DVDs, well Blu-Rays to be exact and this is probably one of the biggest debuts I have seen a director make, the film has developed a massive cult following, and of course with a Tarantino movie you are going to get a very eclectic soundtrack, and this film has no exceptions with tunes ranging from Blue Swedes Hooked On A Feeling, to Little Green Bag, I always say to myself the soundtrack makes the film, a film with no soundtrack is like cake without custard it’s good on its own but misses the main ingredient that makes it special.

The film was realeased in the 90s and stars a big ensemble cast including Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi and Quentin Tarantino. The characters are all named after colours, for example Mr orange, Mr brown and Mr pink (“why do I have to be Mr pink” “because I fucking said so”) one of the great pieces of script right there not to mention my favourite line of all time in the film “you gonna bark all day little doggy or are you gonna bite” whoever Tarantino has hired to write his scripts he has done an amazing job, mind you everyone of his films have great lines including the infamous Ezekiel 22:17 line from Pulp Fiction (but that’s a review for another day) any way back to Reservoir Dogs.

The plot isn’t that confusing or impossible to follow, a group of thieves go and rob a jewellery store which doesn’t go according to plan, one of them is an undercover cop and the whole film is the fallout from the heist, the film also is told in flashbacks ranging from the setup of the heist to the actual heist itself. Now what did I think of this movie, well it was pretty good I am a huge fan of Tarantino, I like his eclecticness of the soundtracks, and also the scripts he produces are brilliant too, the line delivery is perfect and quick also the lines are sharp and quick fired by the actors saying them. Anyway I would give Reservoir Dogs a solid 10/10 it’s a great film and everyone should watch this, I would really recommend it. 

I love a good Christopher Nolan flick, but my god why does he make films so confusing, Inception confusing, The Prestige confusing and now Intersteller Christopher Nolan’s new film. So where do I begin with this one, I can honestly say I have never been so mind blown and confused in my life, any way the film stars Matthew Mconaughey, Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine and the film is about…. Well it’s about…. Umm… It’s about… Okay I’m going to be straight with ya I have absolutely no clue what this film is about I couldn’t even tell you, all I know is this right brace yourselfs cause going to be a long ride, this is Intersteller.

Right so Earth is dying, crops are dying, basically we’re fucked and Matthew Mconaughey who plays Cooper an ex NASA astronaut who has to find another earth in a newly discovered wormhole, a few spacecraft went in to this wormhole but never returned so Cooper and a few other astronauts have to go into this wormhole and find a planet habitable for us, they succeeded in finding a planet, so they venture down and see what this planet has in store for us, so turns out that two hours on this planet is the equivalent of a few years back on the ship, (still with me good) so once they go back to the ship to find that one crew member has aged, oh I should tell you that Cooper has a daughter named Murphy, who believes that her room is haunted by a ghost who pushes books off of a shelf (you’ll get why I am telling you this in a jiffy)

So they find out that Micheal Caine who is the lead scientist in this project has lied about a plan called plan a which basically means that this mission is good and we can travel to this planet and the lab that they are working on is good for launch (yeah the lab they are in at the start of the film is a big space shuttle) God I’m terrible at explaining the plot of this film, I’m leaving important stuff out, any who cut a long story short murph is older and working as a scientist, Cooper travels back to earth but there is a problem and finds himself in a timey wimey space time continuem mix up and is transported to a place kinda like a limbo type area, I don’t know just go with it, any way turns out that Cooper is in fact Murphy’s ghost, he is the one pushing the books of the shelf (still with me yeah you good okay) so umm Cooper sends a message using morse code to older Murphy, she gets the message and bam she yells eureka for some reason, then Cooper wakes up in a hospital bed in the future!! turns out Murphy is about 80 years old and is lying in a hospital bed, she tells cooper some stuff, and then we see Anne Hathaway’s character on a planet or someplace, talking about some space timey wimey type stuff, then the film ends.

And that was Intersteller and if you are still with me then thank god, because I was losing the plot with this movie, I mean I was bored out of my mind, the run time was 163 minutes, that’s three hours long ( I would not recommend you do a Christopher Nolan marathon because you are going to be there for a very long time, any way I absolutely hated this movie, one it was boring i mean really really boring, my mind was blown away at the special effects but it couldn’t help the dull storyline, which lets face it if you have a degree in science and space and time, your going to get what this movie is about, unfortunately I don’t have any of them things so I didn’t get storyline at all, I would give this movie a 1/10 the effects were good but the storyline was dull and boring, so that was Intersteller one of the most confusing films I have seen in my life. 

I hope you enjoyed this review as it may be my last review on here as I am heading for a new website named Cultjure who are a movie website that post news and reviews, so guys this is goodbye I may be on here to review some other films but I can’t promise anything so guys until next time catch ya later.

Remember the found footage genre, films like the Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity (the first one not the crappy sequels) and Rec those films were friggin amazing but alas you do get the bottom of the barrel found footage movies, films like As above So Below, Grave Encounters 1 and 2 and The Gallows which is the newest entry at the bottom of the barrel.

Now The Gallows does have its moments I’m not going to lie, but some of the scares are rehashed over and over again which does get really really dull and very quickly do you find yourself going in circles, so let’s dive in to this bottom of the barrel and take a look at The Gallows.

We open on a teenager named Charlie Grimille who is in his school play known as The Gallows, halfway through the closing scene a freak accident happens with the noose killing Charlie. Cut to 20 years later and we find the same school 20 years on from the incident is putting on the same play, that’s like an incident happening on the stage show Macbeth and then reopening in the same theatre 20 years on you wouldn’t do it so why? Any who a guy called Reece is playing the lead role to fight for his love for his crush Pheifer Reece’s friend takes the piss out of him for being in the play, so they along wih Reece’s mates girlfriend Cassidy break in to the school and vandalise the set. 

Pheifer finds out what they are doing and is angry but once they get back on stage the set has magically repaired.

Halfway through the film they see a TV with news footage about Charlie along with an interview with his girlfriend, once out of the room thy hear footsteps above them and suddenly Cassidy is hung with a noose but survives only to have a wound round her neck which gets worse as time goes on, Reece’s mate has died after getting hung by the mysterious figure known as the hangman scared and frightened they try to find a way out but can’t (as everything is locked because they are in a school) the hangman almost kills Reece but he survives, meanwhile Cassidy is sitting by some stairs crying nursing the wound on her neck but suddenly a noose appears and she is dragged down the stairs kicking and screaming. 

Reece and Pheifer are on the stage trying to hide from the hangman then the stage lights come on and thy act out a scene from the play, the stage then opens on the gallows (the hanging noose where charlie died) Pheifer still in character yells her lines as Reece tells her to stop, in the background you see the hangman pull the lever killing Reece, the hangman along with Pheifer take a bow revealing a figure in the audience… Ready for the mysterious figure… It’s Charlie Grimille’s girlfriend who gives a standing ovation and claps. 

Now we cut to cops coming to a house after getting a call the two cops come in and see a mother and a daughter sitting on a bed while the mother is brushing the daughters hair, the news footage is rolling and it shows the story of Charlie, suddenly charlie appears outta nowhere and kills the cop then the screen cuts to black and then the credits roll.

And that was the gallows, wow, I mean wow what a disappointment this film was, the acting was atrocious as was the whole plot oh my god was the plot bad, when I first heard of this film I thought it was great I mean the trailer sold me, but alas the trailer proved to be better than the actual film itself. 

I do think the found footage is dying sadly, the Blair Witch Project an Paranormal Activity were I think the benchmark for the found footage genre, but now it’s all the same rehashed garbage that comes out of Hollywood, oh no there’s a ghost oh no, seriously Hollywood get some better ideas you have made some gems in your time like whiplash and foxcatcher, keep at that don’t just use the same old story again, okay rant over, anyway I would give the gallows a miss don’t waste your money or time with this film. Do you agree with my opinion do Hollywood use the same stories over and over and over again let me know, until next time catch you later.