Insidious: The Red Door

Insidious: The Red Door

The Lambert Family returns to travel into The Further once more in Insidious: The Red Door. It has been a decade since Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) and his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) was hypnotized to forget their ability to astral project into the supernatural realm known as The Further. Josh is now divorced from his…

City of Ghosts

City of Ghosts

A group of Syrian activists risk their lives to spread the truth about ISIS in City of Ghosts. In 2014, the city of Raqqa in Syria is taken over by the terrorist group Daesh, more commonly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS. With ISIS spreading propaganda about life in the city under…

X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse

The X-Men face their greatest foe in X-Men: Apocalypse. En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac) is the world’s first mutant, who was worshiped as a god in ancient Egypt, before he was betrayed and entombed for thousands of years. Upon awakening in 1983, En Sabah Nur decides to destroy the world and remake it in his own image….

Neighbors

Neighbors

From director Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), comes this comedy about new parents facing off against a fraternity that moves in next door.  Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) are a married couple, who are still learning to get used to a domesticated lifestyle with their new baby daughter.  To their surprise, the vacant…

Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2

James Wan returns with his second horror film of the year (and apparently his final one for the foreseeable future).  Insidious: Chapter 2 takes place nearly immediately after the events of the previous film and sees Josh and Renai Lambert (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) staying with their kids at the house of Josh’s mother…

Teenage

Teenage

It has only been within the last century when the second stage of life, known as adolescence, began to be defined.  Before then, you were either known as a child or an adult and it was not uncommon to see children as young as 12 working in factories.  When child labour laws were introduced in…

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

It’s been a little over 11 years since X-Men became the first successful adaptation of a Marvel comic property and spawned a decade long craze in comic book films. X-Men: First Class can be both described as a prequel and reboot to the original series.  For people who only know X-Men from the previous films, they would only really…

Get Him to the Greek

Get Him to the Greek

You get many movie sequels, but you don’t often get spin-offs.  In this case it is Russell Brand returning to his Aldous Snow character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It can be a bit risky featuring too much of a funny character, however I thought that the this film was quite funny. The also marks Jonah…