It would be easy to look back at the ten years and over 20 films that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe and see it as a complete success but Thor: The Dark World is an example of a miss … Continue reading Thor: The Dark World (2013) Review
Views from the Sofa is 8 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 viewed and reviewed within that … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards 2020
Netflix seems like the perfect fit for Annihilation. It is a movie that would struggle with a traditional classification and certainly doesn’t fit into any genre comfortably. It can be described as a clever science-fiction movie but one that touches upon … Continue reading Best of the Rest 2018: Annihilation (2018) Review
Views from the Sofa is 7 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 viewed and reviewed within that year. … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards 2019
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
Only two films have managed to make me even a little bit interested in ballet. The first was Billy Elliott and the second is Black Swan. Black Swan is more impressive because it is actually about ballet and has plenty of … Continue reading Black Swan (2010) Review
(Views from the Wife is exactly as it sounds – these a reviews done by fellow movie-lover and coincidentally my wife). Warning: This review contains mild spoile This is another example of my love for a director leading me into … Continue reading Nightmares and Dreams Month: Views from The Wife – Black Swan (2010) Review
Career Peak – The point in an actor, actress or director’s career when they have given their best performance, reaching a point they will probably never match again! The idea is to examine a person’s film or television career and … Continue reading Oscars Month: What is their Career Peak – Natalie Portman
There were two major decisions that director Pablo Larrain had to make when considering a movie about the life of Jackie Kennedy. The first is whether to choose one aspect of her life or try to cover her whole life? The … Continue reading Oscars Month: Jackie (2016) Review
Everything that the fans wanted to see in the prequels for the original Star Wars trilogy is crammed into the last hour of this movie. It is only after watching the final act of the movie that you realise how pointless … Continue reading Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) Review
