This is such an underrated film I mean not many people know about this film and I hadn’t until I stumbled across it on google, so I sat down and watched it.

Now I am a huge fan of found footage movies, I mean paranormal activity still scares the shit of me, I mean the whole found footage genre I love, now I have never heard of this film at all as I said in the intro it’s very underrated, so what’s this story about, well it’s about big brother 6 people agree to stay in a mansion for six months and at the end one of them receives a massive pay load of 1 million dollars but if one of them leaves then everyone loses, sounds simple ah but the six months are coming to an end and they start getting really weird packages with one of them containing some bricks and another with a loaded gun with 5 bullets in it.

So what happens you say, well all this commotion and one of the housemates starts wondering if it’s a stalker from her childhood (she starts seeing objects and messages on the window that remind her) well as all this is going on a strange man called Travis turns up completely out of the blue, and guess who Travis is played by (a very young Bradley Cooper) yep didn’t see that coming either, so Travis turns up and says that he does not recognise the housemates (they are all on a website on the Internet supposedly) which starts worrying the housemates.

 Well as the film goes on Travis starts talking to the cameras around the house and steals some underware from one of the girls rooms, the next morning Travis leaves and the woman whose underware has been stolen finds it in one of the guys rooms, she accuses him of stealing, which he declines she starts disbelieving him, as an apology he carves her a cat but she mocks it and he overhears everything, the next morning the guy has hung himself and has died (I did warn you there would be spoilers) as the film goes on everyone is paranoid until one night one of the guys finds out that they are not on the Internet, but instead on a blocked website that people would play up to fifty thousand dollars to view, as he tries to hack in to it cameras turn on in the room (it’s a room where cameras are not allowed) so the housemates start panicking, that night two of them talk about what they would do when they get out, suddenly this guy gives the woman a massage halfway through he says that he chose to come on here for the fear after that he looks into the camera and says “shall I kill her now” after that he strangles her with a plastic bag.

So turns out this guy is working for the company that is running the website so he kills the hacker and tries to kill the woman who had her underware stolen, as he tries to kill her a cop arrives and then bam he shoots the woman, later in a bar the cop and the guy working for the company are having a drink, and their keeping the girl the cop shot in a locked freezer, as the guy working for the company goes to take a look and the cop shoots him, and that’s it, it just ends there. 

Now I loved this film it was really tense but that ending was so horrendously God awfully bad, I mean it left so many plot holes in it and that ruined the whole film for me, I mean we don’t learn who this company is we hardly know this company we don’t know what they do I mean it was god awful, but the parts where they film in the house were fantastic, I mean they were filmed great and you felt the tension everytime the camera panned round, it was definatly a tense film, just the ending could of been a little bit better, but apart from that I thought it was a good film I would give it a 6/10 main,y because of the ending but the other parts were great, let me know if you have seen this movie did you think it was disappointing or did you enjoy it let me know I would love to hear your opinion on this, and until next time catch you later. 

Godzilla, what an epic movie, ignore the 90s version (we all know that was god awfully bad) now I wanted to go cinema to see this, but sadly it wasn’t up there so I had to wait for the DVD to come out, so I picked it up and sat down with the family (well not my mum it’s not her type of film) anyway we sat down and watched it. 

So what’s the story about, well as you can see it’s about Godzilla but it’s also about the people that tries to stop him people like the army and scientists. Now I loved this film I thought it was really good, cgi was impressive as was the acting, but did it have its flaws no, and I will tell you why minus the long running time (118 minutes) it definatly has pace and quick one too, I mean it’s very pacey and there’s action in almost every scene, but that doesn’t mean there’s no talking, now let’s talk about the cast, now there’s not an all star cast but is does have its fair share of actors so whose in it you say, well I shall tell you’ve got Bryan Cranston who plays Joe Brody Aaron-Taylor Johnson who plays Ford Brody and Elizabeth Olsen who plays Ellie Brody, there’s a lot more actors and actresses in here but too name them all will take forever. 

Now let’s take a look at the action/CGI, now the CGi was fantastic I mean Godzilla looked and sounded great as did Muto (a winged creature who is Godzilla’s nemesis) the action was superb and I mean brilliant I was on the edge of my sofa watching this, (the final battle with Godzilla and Muto was epic)  the character delevopment was great, we really learn a lot from these characters and their past. 

And that was Godzilla, and what a film it was I mean I really enjoyed this film I was on the edge of my seat for the whole thing, the action was amazing as was the storyline. So let me know what you thought of Godzilla did you like it, or didn’t you? did you like the 90s version or not? Until next time catch you later.

Umm. Hmm. Okay i have probably witnessed the weirdest film in the history of all weird, this film has a huge massively huge cult following i mean people would and still do go to the cinema to see this film dressed up as the characters from the film, now first time i saw this i was in college at lunch and a friend of mine got it up on his iPad, what followed was the weirdest moment in my life ever and I’m not exaggerating watch the film the. Get back to me. 

 So the rocky horror picture show… Oh boy, where to begin, see i can’t even start off with what it’s about its that weird, so a couple who have just got engaged drive to tell the husband’s fellow scientist, as they drive they break down and have to go find somewhere, they find a very cliched haunted house in the rain with lightning striking, well as they arrive at the house a very cliched creepy butler called Riff raff (don’t question the name) opens the door now this is where it gets weird and I mean really really really really weird, brace yourselfs people we are venturing down the rabbit hole into sheer craziness.

So Riff Raff (again don’t question the name) tells the couple that the master is having a party and that he is going to show off his creation he has created, so as he is telling this he breaks out in to the infamous time warp song, oh boy okay even the singing/dancing is weird but my foot was tapping along with the music (I had to do the time warp dance at my year 6 leavers assembly… In front of the whole school…. And my teachers…. And my parents) so where was we, oh yeah the time warp umm, I can’t even review this film it’s just so weird but I will try too anyway, so after the time warp we see (brace yourselfs) we see Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter (don’t question the name) so dr Frank n Furter is a transvestite (I don’t even know, it’s best not to question it) and then he sings sweet transvestite, after that we see his lab and his creation, suddenly out of the fucking blue meatloaf appears…. Yep you heard me, meatloaf, just appears and sings this rock number and he is killed by Dr Frank n Furter.

So we see Frank n Furter’s (we’ll just call him Dave as my iPad does not recognise the name Frank n Furter) umm so we see dave’s creation, wait for it you’ll like this, a human man called Rocky (again don’t question it) he is like a baby just been born so he doesn’t understand what’s going on, well anyway as the couple go to bed Tim curry visits the woman and proceeds to have sex with her pretending to be her husband (I’m going to tell you again don’t question it) after he has sex with her he visits her husband… Because why not, well Tim curry has sex with the husband, then things get even weirder when a fellow scientist turns up. Around the dinner table we see the body of meatloaf as one of dave’s groupies runs out of the room.

Cut to a few hours later and Tim curry is getting ready for the floor show (don’t know what that is but as I said don’t question it) so in his lab he medusafies (I don’t know just go with it) the couple along with the scientist and thus the floor show begins. So, well, now this is where things get even weirder and I mean friggin weird Tim curry does a big song and dance suddenly riff raff comes along and shoots Dave and then kills rocky and then it ends with the couple and the scientist all in full drag regalia singing about superheroes (just go with it) and the the film ends there and I mean ends like that. 

Well what can I say about this movie hmm, well I enjoyed it I mean it’s got catchy songs in it (time warp is just infectiously catchy) but it’s just so weird and I mean weird, I mean I couldn’t even tell you what the plot is, it’s that weird, but nonetheless I enjoyed it even if it was campy and really weird, I would give this film a 7/10 mainly because of its weirdness but the songs are very catchy indeed if you can get passed the weirdness then it’s a good watch, I would recommend this film definatly, I mean I enjoyed it but just don’t question it as much as I did when I watched it. So let me know what you thought of this film did you find it weird the first time you watched it let me know, until next time catch you later.

bababa dook dook dook that’s the knock you will hear when the babadook comes to pay you a visit. Now I love a good horror (you could call me a connoisseur of horror movies) so when I first heard of this film it didn’t sound appealing, I mean with a name like the babadook as the villain it doesn’t sound threatening at all, but nonetheless I picked this film up for a tenner in HMV (a shop where they sell DVDs and other things) then today I sat down and watched this. 

Now foreign horrors I enjoy (the ring and the grudge scared the fuck outta me) so this films hails from Australia, now the film follows a single mother (whose husband has died) and her son Samuel who has severe behaviour problems, because he believes in monsters, we see the mother suffering with insomnia because her son can’t sleep because of the monsters in his room. One night the son finds a book called Mr Babadook, so she reads the babadook and we see how scary and sinister this babadook is. 

The son starts believing the book is real and has made weapons to defeat Mr babadook, which the mother disapproves and tells him off, cut to a few scenes later and we see them at a birthday party where Samuel’s cousin finds him in a treehouse and tells him to get out saying that he never deserved to have a dad, so Samuel pushes her out of the treehouse then claiming that it was the babadook that pushed her not him, this makes the sister hate him and the mum. The mum then goes to the doctor and says that she needs Samuel to get to sleep, so the doctor prescribes sleeping pills for Samuel, so after days of these sleeping pills everything is dandy, Samuel is sleeping so is the mum, but that doesn’t stop old Mr babadook oh no, he comes and possesses the mum, after that we see the mum get even more loopy than she ever was (she tries to strangle their dog) and many other things.

So a the film progresses we see the mum go through some very rough patches (hallucinations and angry outburst) then one night she really loses it and goes to attack Samuel, oh not before strangling the dog then breaking its neck, then she goes after Samuel and tries to kill him, Samuel petrified ties his mother up in the basement saying that he loves her and doesn’t want her to go (I was in tears at this bit) the mum then starts having a seizure and then rises up then vomits blood ending the babadooks possession. 

So a few weeks have passed and Samuel is having a birthday party (he has never had a birthday on the day because his father died on the way to the birth) the mum tells us that she needed some time to get back to normal after her husbands death, then after Samuel shows his mum a magic trick they cuddle, do some gardening, and Samuel collecting a bowlful of worms, back in the house the mum goes in to the basement, Samuel asks her “will I ever see it again” to which the mum replies “of course when your older” she then goes into the basement and puts the bowl of worms down, suddenly the babadook appears and yells in the mums face, the mum then tells it that its okay, they are keeping the babadook in the basement pretty much. 

And then the film ends there and what a film this was, I mean it didn’t just focus on the babadook it focused on the psychological effects that this monster can do as well as the misbehaving son affecting the mum as well, the whole film was scary my heart was pounding at some scenes in the film, I really felt unsettled during this and that’s what makes a good horror for me you need to be unsettled and feels the characters emotion, and that’s exactly what the babadook done it focused on the characters emotion rather than the actual monster, we don’t get to see the babadook but we can sense his presence when he arrives, and we feel the fear that these characters fear. Take the shining that film was psychologiacal as we felt what the characters felt especially the wife (the scene in the bathroom those screams you hear were real not acted real) I would give the babadook a solid 10/10 mainly for the acting and the unsettling side to this film, I definitely will not be sleeping soundly tonight, let me know what horror film scared you growing up or if you have seen this film then share your opinion I would love to hear it but until next time catch you later.

Now I know what your thinking “But the Oscars happened last week why are you dong this now” and I know it did but i decided to watch them because I wanted to know who won certain awards (best picture included) and I have to say for this years Oscars I have never felt so awkward watching them.

Let’s get started with one of the problems, the host Neil Patrick Harris, now at first I thought he was going to be great but let’s just say he can not crack a joke, with every time he told a joke the audience never laughed or cracked a smile (all you needed was tumbleweed) seriously his jokes were God awfully bad, definatly not as good as barney from how I met your mother. Another problem was how predictable the awards were gonna be (I know your gonna disagree with me on this one but hear me out) they were predictable because when you saw who was up it was obvious who was going to win the best picture award I did not see coming at all this year, although there was some surprising winners this year, but I have my own theory, when ever someone wins a BAFTA they are in the seat to win an Oscar, boyhood won for best supporting actress and she won an Oscar as well, now I know it’s a rubbish theory but that’s my opinion.

But enough complaining let’s take a look at who the winners were. For best picture Birdman (didn’t see that one coming at all) now this was up against films like Selma, American Sniper even boyhood lost to Birdman. Another shock was in the best animated film category (I’m still glad big hero 6 won) but that doesn’t mean you snub the Lego movie I mean come on that film was the definition of awesome still at least it was up for best original song for everything is awesome (if you’ve not heard that song then you’ve been living under a rock) but hey at least it won a BAFTA, at least How To Train Your Dragon 2 was up (that film was awesome by the way) there were plenty more shocks but lets just say that opening number was the best (Jack Blacks part was awesome)

Here is a list of all the other nominees and winners http://oscar.go.com/nominees if your interested in having a look.

And that was my opinion on the Oscars this year I hope you enjoyed it and let me know what you thought of them, did you get your predictions right or wrong, did your favourite film win or lose, let me know I would love to hear from you until next time catch you later.

So instead of a review I thought to do a list of my top films I have seen, what are your top films let me know in the comments. So let’s get started with number five.

5) Boyhood



Now I loved this movie, if you don’t know what this is you have been living under a rock as this has been the most talked about film, it follows a boy called mason who we see age for 12 years. The reason I liked this film is because of how it was filmed (I mean for 12 years that’s something) also the soundtrack is pretty damn awesome, from Coldplay to Arcade Fire. The reason it’s at number five is the fact that it dragged out near the end but nonetheless it was a very good nostalgic trip with this one.

4) GoodFellas 



Now I love a good gangster flick and goodfellas is one of my personal favourites, the story follows true life gangster Henry Hill as he rises the the ranks of being a gangster, with an all star cast including Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro, this is a really good film, plus it’s a Martin Scorsese flick (one of my favourite directors) if you love a good gangster flick definitely check this one out.

3) Mad Max



Now normally it takes a lot to get me interested in an 80s action flick, one time on a day off from college I stumbled upon this film, so I decided to download it (and cue one of the best action films of the 80s) so we follow a guy called you guessed correctly Max, he is a highway cop and family man (aww) well after his family is murdered (in a really really gruesome way) by ruthless bikers he goes on a revenge fuelled mission to take down the bikers who slayed his family. I really enjoyed this film, but it does take a long time for the family die (they die like ten minutes near the end of the film) but I really enjoyed it.

2) Gone Girl



Gone Girl… Oh boy what a film (David Fincher is a master at crime dramas) what can I say about this, tense yes, twist filled oh boy yes, so the film follows Nick Dunne whose wife goes missing and he tries to find her, but his behaviour sparks trouble with the police who think he might have something to do with it. The wife (played fantastically by Rosamund Pike) is a nutter and I mean an absolute nutter, I won’t say anymore because your gonna have to see for yourself, but nonetheless it is a very good crime drama.

And finally.

Number 1! Shutter Island



You know I said that Scorsese is one of my favourite directors, well this film is probably one of my favourites by him (this plus Goodfellas and Wolf of Wall Street) so we follow a detective who goes to a mental hospital to find a missing person (that’s all I’m gonna say as the film takes a very very good twist) this film is number one because my heart was racing and pounding throughout the whole film, storyline wise it’s very good, acting very very good (Ben Kingsley as the head of the institute is fantastic)

And those are my top five favourite movies, let me know what you think comment your opinion and let me know what your top five films are, until next time catch you later.