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
The groundwork had been set so well in the first chapter that you couldn’t help but be excited for the possibility of return of Pennywise. The scares, the characters and the way relationships had been built in the first film … Continue reading IT: Chapter 2 (2019) Review
Disney don’t do many sequels to their animated movies which make it to the theatres. This is probably because it is difficult to follow “Happily Ever After” in any sort of meaningful way but things were different with Frozen. It … Continue reading Frozen 2 (2019) Review
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
After Curse of Chucky brought the series back to the series slasher franchise it was originally, Cult of Chucky decides to take the series in a random, bold and very different direction that if handled well, could be full of … Continue reading Cult of Chucky (2017) Review
It is a bold move to take a character which has been so over-exposed that it is no longer scary and rather than reboot and start again, change the tone of the film entirely and rebuild, keeping what has gone … Continue reading Curse of Chucky (2013) Review
By the time that Seed of Chucky, the fifth entry in the Child’s Play series, arrives the franchise has lost all sense of what it actually was. This is a series that has decided to go full comedy, using black humour … Continue reading Seed of Chucky (2004) Review
The fact that this film is no longer called Child’s Play should give you some idea of how loosely linked to the original series it is. In fact, it begins fairly weirdly with the focus set purely on Jennifer Tilly’s Tiffany, … Continue reading Bride of Chucky (1998) Review
A trilogy, of any franchise, is a good place to start branching out. The characters are familiar, the central idea of the franchise is established and it means that audiences should be more appreciative of a change or twist which will … Continue reading Child’s Play 3 (1991) Review
Horror movies have been around for so long now that it is difficult to look past the obvious cliches. The Child’s Play sequel hits almost all of the classic sequel cliches but as long as you expect this and understand that … Continue reading Child’s Play 2 (1990) Review
