You have to be very selective when making comic book movies. With characters like Wonder Woman, that have been around so long that there is a lot of aspects to her character that work well on-screen and a lot which … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Review
Views from the Sofa is 6 Years Old today! As has become tradition, we always use our birthday to look back at the past year and give some awards based on the movies we have watched this year. These awards are … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards 2018
Justice League is a movie that will want you craving more as the credits roll. This would usually be a positive, and to some extent it is, but it is also because Justice League feels like the first act of a … Continue reading Justice League (2017) Review
What a difference The Rock makes. It is a cynical view but a somewhat valid one that The Rock’s inclusion in the seemingly unstoppable franchise meant a few things for The Fast and Furious. First: That it was now looking to … Continue reading Fast and Furious Month: Fast 5 (2011) Review
It has finally happened. After Iron Man was released in 2008 and arguably started what is The Golden Age of the superhero movie, we now have a female-led superhero film and who better than Diana Prince herself: Wonder Woman. It would … Continue reading Fast and Furious Month: Wonder Woman (2017) Review
At a time when there are sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots and re-imaginings; Fast & Furious manages the hardest of movie types – The Soft Reboot. Fast & Furious isn’t a reboot or a remake. It starts again, with a brand new … Continue reading Fast and Furious Month: Fast & Furious (2009) Review
There is a huge problem in movie marketing these days. Studios are vying for the huge audiences and trying to get everyone to see their movie so have started to “spoil” their own films. Trailers and posters are giving away … Continue reading Why the Cloverfield series is the best example of movie marketing
You would be forgiven for thinking that director Zack Snyder had pulled the wool over your eyes. The marketing for this movie is effective. It promises one of the biggest battles in comic book history, if not pop-culture history. Everybody has … Continue reading Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Review
