• Trailer Watch – Doctor Strange

    If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Stephen Vincent Strange… Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character, will be the fourteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At first glance, it adds a much needed new dimension to the series but in more...
  • Trailer Watch – Rogue One

    With The Force Awakens buzz dying down and the impending Blu-Ray release just around the corner it seemed that Star Wars’ firm grip over the film world was beginning to loosen… and then the first trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit. It has been a few...
  • Trailer Watch – Top Gear, Series 23

    Top Gear is back! Except it’s not actually the Top Gear we all love, because Jeremy Clarkson is nowhere in sight (too busy wizzing around on that scooter obviously), there’s no May and definitively no Hammond. As an ardent lover of the ‘old’ Top Gear, and a staunch cynic,...
  • Trailer Watch – War Dogs

    Todd Philips of The Hangover trilogy directs a new action-comedy War Dogs, about two 20 something year olds who secure a $300 million deal with the US government to supply arms to the Afghan military during the Iraq War. Sounds far-fetched? It’s based on the true story of Efraim...
  • Trailer Watch – Lego Batman: The Movie

    It’s great to see the Lego team ‘Robin’ some of the Batman attention away from Batman V Superman this week – with a trailer I can hardly ‘Penguin’ to describe. But will Lego Batman: The Movie live up to its predecessor, or is it destined to be the ‘Bane’ of our...
  • Trailer Watch – Bridget Jones’ Baby

    In the third instalment of the highly anticipated movie franchise, Renée Zellweger returns as the beloved Brit and 12 years later, nothing has changed.  If anything it looks like we’ve gone backwards.  The ending to Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was a sweet one for fans. We see...
  • Trailer Watch – X-Men Apocalypse

    There are many films with Apocalypse in the title. It’s one of the many clichéd and lazy selected titles that studios will slap on an unnecessary sequel in order to give it some “edge” over its predecessor. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the world wasn’t going to end. In  Avengers:...