The Great Raid (2005) – Review

It’s hardly a revelation to point out that WWII liked to sprawl (it was a world war, after all), and so by definition, a lot

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Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 8: You’ll Never Catch A Monkey That Way (2023) – Review

Whenever you get to the end of the debut season of any Netflix show these days, you can’t help but get a little bit nervous.

Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 6: Terms Of Endearment (2023) – Review

I’ve spent the last couple of reviews basically grumbling about the lack of Kong in this Kong related series, but in a much needed effort

Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 5: Doggone It (2023) – Review

Yes, it’s been a long standing complaint and yes, it’s a song I’ve regrettably sung many times before, but why the hell do modern animated

Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 4: Breakfast Fit For A Kong (2023) – Review

There is so much to enjoy about Skull Island, Netflix’s annimated continuation of Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise, and yet despite fun dialogue, perky banter and some

Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 3: What’s Up, Croc (2023) – Review

Due to a suprisingly high rate of TV reviews I had decidedly to inflict upon myself (what can I say, I’m a hard taskmaster), I

Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 2: The Last Blank Space On The Map (2023) – Review

After a solid opening that brought us back to Skull Island with a bump, Neflix’s King spinoff already set up some reassuring credentials. Neither slavishly

Skull Island – Season 1, Episode 1: Maritime Pilot (2023) – Review

Conventional wisdom suggests that there are certain rules to establishing and sustaining a cinematic universe. If we were to read from the individual playbooks of

Clear And Present Danger (1994) – Review

Having not been all that familiar with Tom Clancy creation and all round CIA boy-scout, Jack Ryan, I have to admit that Patriot Games had

Catwoman (2004) – Review

We currently live in a time where a female character can headline a superhero movie pretty much like it’s a normal, everyday thing. Wonder Woman,

Demolition Man (1993) – Review

There’s a theory I have and it’s quite new – not to mention fairly out there – but stay with me…What if Cobra, Demolition Man

Coco (2017) – Review

I’ll just say it.From around 2010 to 2016, Pixar had been what you’d politely dub: a tad uneven. For every Inside Out that fired the

Doctor Strange (2016) – Review

By 2016 Marvel Studios had successfully cast it’s spell over the world like a megalomaniac hypnotist and was hitting greater heights than ever before. Their