Monthly Archives: February 2015

Morgan Freeman is Alex Cross: Kiss the Girls & Along Came a Spider (Reviews)

Posted on February 14, 2015 by OGR

Kiss the Girls Morgan Freeman is Alex Cross, FBI investigator extraordinaire, who throws himself headlong into a case involving missing young women once he learns his own niece is one of the missing. There is one lead in North Carolina, … Continue reading →

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What If? (Review)

Posted on February 13, 2015 by OGR

What If? does nothing to reinvent the romantic comedy genre. In fact aside from a few animated flourishes it stays in its own humble lane, humming along pleasantly while chugging towards the goal of attaining low key yet amiable entertainment. … Continue reading →

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The Fall (Review)

Posted on February 12, 2015 by OGR

Describing The Fall with mere words is pointless. This is film for the eyeballs, the synapses, the part of the brain that derives exhilaration through witnessing exquisite beauty and vivid colour. I look upon this film as a young child … Continue reading →

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Beasts of the Southern Wild (Review)

Posted on February 10, 2015 by OGR

Hushpuppy was born into a world of uncertainty, namely the ‘Bathtub’ area in the deep South of mainland America, an area essentially abandoned by civilisation thanks to it being below the water table and therefore in constant peril, only a … Continue reading →

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Four Rooms (Review)

Posted on February 9, 2015 by OGR

  One would think that New Year’s Eve might not be the ideal first day on the job, especially in a hotel chock full of zany characters. Nonetheless that is what confronts Ted the bellhop (Tim Roth) at his new … Continue reading →

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The Collection (Review)

Posted on February 7, 2015 by OGR

In the first edition of this lame franchise we were introduced to The Collector on one of his house calls, where he painstakingly laid a bunch of intricate and unnecessary booby traps and devices of torture for unsuspecting morons to … Continue reading →

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Into the Storm (Review)

Posted on February 6, 2015 by OGR

Into the Storm is a film about a town being struck by a big storm. A tornado actually, or more accurately again a series of tornados, each larger, more ferocious and more computer generated than the last. Fortunately for the … Continue reading →

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Detention (Review)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by OGR

Twenty sum years ago Will Smith had a song called Parents Just Don’t Understand. The title says it all really; different generations have different interests and quite often will not ‘get’ each other. Where Detention is concerned consider me as … Continue reading →

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The Negotiator (Review)

Posted on February 3, 2015 by OGR

Danny Roman (Samuel L Jackson) is a police interior decorator… Wait. The other one. Police negotiator. He is the best of the best in Chicago, responsible for saving many hostages even though his superiors lament his constant backtalk, flouting of … Continue reading →

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Sliver (Review)

Posted on February 2, 2015 by OGR

In the 90s Sharon Stone was a chameleonic and ambitious actress in the same way Katy Perry is an artist capable of criss-crossing genres and musical styles. And by that I mean neither statement is remotely true. But genuine talent … Continue reading →

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