I really think there is a place for cliches in movies, with some using them as a kind of wink to the audience. Like The Expendables for instance (we don’t talk about the third installment that went full PG-13). There are also movies like Jurassic World that are more cheese than Trevor’s socks after a grueling walk to the local candy store, but …

Independence Day will always be one of those landmark movies to me. It’s not the superb special effects, fantastic cast or wonderfully-paced story that makes it one of my all-time favourite flicks however. It’s the fact that for the first time ever, this was a movie that showed off just how screwed humanity would be if intelligent life ever decided …

Thanks to looks, personality or general demeanour, actors can very easily be typecast in certain roles. Owen Wilson makes the perfect beach bum, Michael Cera is always the awkward indie teen and Christopher Lee can’t be anything but a crazy supervillain. But what about when movies get weirdly specific with their typecasting? Sean Bean is notorious for (almost) always dying …

To paraphrase a certain arrow-shooting vigilante: I have failed this movie blog. It’s sort of my job to keep you guys informed of all the major movies and yet yesterday was the very first time I had ever even heard of The Big Short.  You would definitely not think that to be the case for a true life drama surrounding …

Despite all the rumours, leaked set pics, official images, character descriptions, trailers, merchandising and more, there’s still a lot we don’t know about Star Wars: The Force Awakens (this is a JJ Abrams movie, after all). And one of those unknowns is definitely Gwendoline Christie’s Captain Phasma, one of the villainous First Order’s military leaders. For starters, we had already …

Remember how Jason Statham talked trash about the Avengers a few moths ago saying that his grandmother could do it? Here’s a refresher: “A lot of the modern sort of action movies I see, you know, Marvel comic sort of things, I just think, any guy can do it. I have no ambition. I mean, I could take my grandma …

What if the dinosaurs had never vanished? What if they had stuck around, and that asteroid had missed the planet entirely? Contrary to what Cadillacs And Dinosaurs taught us as kids, I doubt that we’d be rolling around in classic muscle cars and getting into wacky hijinks every week. Because a rat problem is nothing compared to a slight T-Rex …

Believe it or not, but PE finally has an IMAX cinema. A proper, honest-to-your-deity venue for massive movies. And that’s something that I’m interested in, because I’ve never watched an IMAX movie. And dammit, I want the IMAX experience. I want a screen so big that it looks like it belongs to a section of the Great Wall of China. …