[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00DHJT4US][/pullquote] Boasting an incredible cast of Hollywood character actors, you could be forgiven for thinking that The Monuments Men was being geared for an awards glut. However a delay in release to put it immediately out of contention and raised concerns … [Read more...]
Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
The Viking Empire Strikes Back [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003BIFPG2][/pullquote] Dreamworks used to play second fiddle to Pixar in the hit animated movie stakes but not anymore. … [Read more...]
Review: The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
The kids aren't all right [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00JLC5IRS][/pullquote] Ruthless efficiency and teen cancer drama are not terms that necessarily go together. That is unless you're talking about the Shailene Woodley film The Fault in Our Stars. Based on the uber-popular novel by the former … [Read more...]
Review: Oculus (2013)
Through the Looking Glass [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00J9C05NM][/pullquote] Mainstream horror films have had a bit of a lull recently. The normal plethora of over-edited horror trailer were conspicuously absent from the beginning of my screening of Oculus, and it's been nearly a year since we … [Read more...]
Review: Sleepers (1996)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004JRQ0V8][/pullquote] Following the staggering success of The Godfather films, mafia-themed, New York-set dramas became something of a sub-genre themselves in the late 1980s and 1990s. Sleepers, which owes a fair bit to Francis Ford Coppola's magnum opus is one of … [Read more...]
Review: Maleficent (2014)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00IXGU8YG][/pullquote]If you hadn't worked it out from the Princess and the Frog, Frozen and Brave, then you will certainly learn it from Maleficent “ the all-powerful Disney brand is now well and truly on a new path. … [Read more...]
Review: We are the Best (2013, Swedish)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00KB1RQXM][/pullquote] Lukas Moodysson came to prominence with bittersweet comedy drama Together in 2000. But any ideas that he'd continue in a quirky, funny direction were quickly shattered by Lily 4 Ever and A Hole in My Heart which were very powerful, but almost … [Read more...]
Review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Eat Sleep Die Repeat [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00BC36U58][/pullquote] Following Oblivion, Tom Cruise continues his jaunt into the science fiction genre with Edge of Tomorrow. Based on the novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka it is directed by Doug Limen, best known for The Bourne … [Read more...]
Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Lazy Saddles [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00JKE4UGC][/pullquote] Stepping out from behind the camera, the creative force behind Family Guy and American Dad Seth MacFarlane takes his first leading role in A Million Ways to Die in the West. … [Read more...]
Review: That Awkward Moment (2014)
Bros before Brains [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00IJVM4GA][/pullquote] With the popularity of bromance comedies on the rise, it's nice to see That Awkward Moment straying away from the tried-and-tested cast members from Judd Apatow's stable of comic actors. By casting the excellent Michael B. … [Read more...]