Reviews

This doesn't know if it wants to be funny, like Inside Number Nine, or clever and chilling like Silence of The Lambs.

It's a preditable story with a poorly constructed plot, charactwra who make ridiculous lifw-changing decisions on a whim, and seems to be nothing more than an excuse for David Tennant to do some serious emoting in the hope of winning a Bafta or something.

You could have scrapped the entire American plot and it ends practically begging for a second season which I hope it does not get.

Do yourself a favour and watch something, anything, better. This will just irritate you, as it did me.

No spoilers from me, but this was a great movie and had a fantastic fight scene towards the end that needs repeated viewing.

All theee GOTG movies have had humour and heart with great music and this has made them stand out from the rest of the MCU.

There are some surprises, and some things that you may see coming but will cheer for when they arrive anyway.

If you're a fan of the MCU and the Guardians in particular, you should try to see this movie on the big screen because it looks gorgeous and some of the set design and FX stand-out as better than anything yet seen in a Marvel movie.

Are there some problems with it?

Sure. Name a film without them (ok, Jaws, but name another).

However, if you're willing to go on the journey you'll have a great time.

This is the greatest 48 minutes of television ever produced.

That's it.

That's the review.

Five seasons lead up to the events of this episode which, in turn, speeds towards the conclusion over the remaining two installments.

TV may never get this good again.

Prey, the latest in the Predator franchise, is good.

It's funny in places, has some great action scenes, and everything is very lean; everything moves forward. There is no filler or padding here.

If you don't mind the actors speaking with modern accents (because otherwise they'd have probably made terribly offensive aproximations of Native American accents that went out of fashion in John Wayne cowboy films AND you can watch it in Comanche with subtitles if you prefer) it's an entertaining little action film.

A minor quibble is in the 'predator vision' because you'd have thought it would have changed a little between this film and the original given 300 years passed but we can forgive them that; it's a staple of these movies after all!

I've seen a lot of complaints about 'How can a GIRL defeat the predtor when armed marines couldn't?' They tend to forget that 1) this isn't the same predator, and 2) Arnie defeates the original by bashing it over the head with logs and a rock

There is a lot of toxic nonsense in the reviews for this film saying it's dreadful and, in turn, a lot of rabid fans saying it's the greatest film ever.

In truth, it's just a good little sci-fi action movie.

Not as good as the original, of course, but easily one of the top three Predator films.

I'm a sucker for the one-man-army action movie from the 80's and this, which is basically John Wick (and which in itself is one of those movies) is exactly that.

Funny, over-the-top and thoroughly entertaining, there is probably a Better Call Saul pun to be made but I'm not smart enough!

It's a great fun action movie; if that's your bag, go watch it!

After everything he went through, from BCS to BB, this flash forward episode shows that the character is and always will be that character - he can't help himself.

I thought it was a fantastic episode; tense, funny and brilliantly constructed and written.

I'm just sad that we're nearing the end of our time in the world.

This show had potential but after the first season it just got more and more silly and much less interesting.

The most recent seasons have been almost unwatchable (and I've only watched them just because by that point I'd committed myself to see this nonsense through to the end).

Watch season one and two and ignore the rest.

All the 1 to 3 star reviews are by entitled idiots (don't get me started on anyone who uses the word 'woke' about anything that gives a woman a speaking role).

All the 9 to 10 star reviews are by the rabid fans who would rate anything SW highly.

The first two episodes are fun and lead into a humdinger of a cliff hanger.

Ewan is Obi Wan.

Young Leia is the right side of bratty and shows how that character trait would turn into the Leia we know.

The fx are a bit shoddy at times and they don't like to explain what planet scenes are taking place on.

As a show, it is entertaining.

As a Star Wars show, it fills a gap between the shiny prequels and the more lived-in originals.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the full series turns out.

Big Boys is about a shy kid going to uni and although it has (somewhat-typical for recent Channel Four comedy) Inbetweeners-style humour it has a bit more heart to it than that show and the two leads are allowed to both lean into the silly bawdy humour and yet still be emotionally honest and plausibly genuine.

I enjoyed episode one a lot and will look forward to binging the rest.

Once again, they have written an astonishing piece of fiction that hits many bases and somehow only takes thirty minutes.

As always, darkly funny and both moving and thought-provoking with an ending that slams into the viewer unexpectedly.

Pemberton and. Shearsmith are national treasures, up there with Shakespeare and. Pinter.

This film is the slightly backwards love child of an afternoon tryst between Indiana Jones and the Fast and Furious and is a perfectly adequate fun brainless adventure movie.

That about covers it.

It's an enjoyable show, looking back at tales from Dwayne Johnson's life.

Some of the casting choices are spot-on for their real-life counterparts.

Taking cues from Batman and Tarzan, and throwing in a little of The Warriors for good measure and then sprinkling a bit of The Crow on top, this is a thoroughly enjoyable vigilante fable set in a barely recognsible to modern eyes New York.

As a Discworld show, it was just wrong on so very many levels.

From writing to the set designs to the acting, it was all just awfully far away from the characters it was based on.

However, as a show, removed from Discworld, it was... watchable.

I watched it through that lense; ignored the Discworld connection and just tried to see if it was a good steampunk fantasy sci-fi show since we don't get many of those made for British tv.

As I said, it was watchable.

Nothing more.

It was NOT Discworld.

This show has progressively got more ridiculous and yet it still draws me in to watch every episode... damn it!

Firstly, ignore the negative reviews.

This is a great first episode, full of action and comedic beats that fits perfectly into the MCU yet still gives a great introduction, along with the Loki tv show, to the multiverse idea and acts as a warm-up for the new direction the MCU will take.

The voice acting is phenomenal and the old cast mixes well with the replacement voices. Once again, Ross Marquand excells.

I am in two minds about this film.

On one hand, I really did enjoyed it well enough.

However, I'm in no rush to see it again and it was rather... dull... in places.

Not something I thought I'd ever say about a James Gunn movie.

The beginning is great fun, and I don't know where else they can take the Harley chatacter after this (other than maybe a prequel?), and there are plenty of funny moments with some great action beats.

It just felt a little... I don't know.

Maybe because Gunn was clearly let off the leash he didn't have to restrain himself and so moments that may have been handled with more care were allowed to simply explode?

There is a lot of blood and gore, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

As I said, I enjoyed it, and I will watch it again someday, I'm just in no big rush to revisit it.

A generous seven out of ten.

I've read the Suicide Squad and DC comics for a very long time, and all the low reviews with the 'restore the Snyderverse' hashtag can go away.

It's a loud, dumb and fun action movie and I like that Dave got to show a little more range than you might expect.

As with all time travel movies, none of this makes sense BUT they do a good job of keeping it within the science of the movie itself and there are some great performances from Chris Pratt (when isn't he watchable?) and JK Simmons.

In every episode there are at least two moments that make me roll my eyes at the ridiculous behaviour of characters BUT this show is still entertaining and we looked forward to every episode, because it did keep you hanging on to see the outcome. Give it a try!