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10.The Matrix When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth – the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber – intelligence. I watched this film in my teenage years and I thought this is rather good, it got element of a dystopianContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Dystopian, Apocalyptic & Post Apocalyptic Films Vol 2”

10.Snowpiercer In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges. It is one of those film that can be rather full on, but underneath it all there is a brilliant storyContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Dystopian, Apocalyptic & Post Apocalyptic Films Vol 1”

A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts. Underneath it all there is a brilliant story and I like the moral of grief and that does work well, the CGI/SFX is outstanding andContinue reading “Haunted Mansion (2023) Movie Review”

Three Thousand Years Of Longing A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Firstly, I admire this film that try to be something different and it is colourful, for me personally it’s the pacing as it doesn’t hold your interest, it notContinue reading “Mini Film Review Volume 68”

10.National Treasure Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure – seekers who’ve all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Foundling Fathers after the Revolutionary War. I got this film from my public library and I still remember this, it has got a fantastic story and the characters areContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Heist Movies”

7.Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. Firstly, it has got amazing scenery and it has got outstanding set pieces, it can be rather funny in some places and this is entertaining, the thing is theContinue reading “Article: Top 7 Mission Impossible Films”

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. Firstly, this has got amazing scenery and it has got outstanding set pieces, the acting in general is fantastic and totally believable and the film itself is gorgeous to look at. For me personally it’s theContinue reading “Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Move Review”

Firstly, I know The Guardian which Newspaper of the year did their own version of Top 50 (can be found here). But this is my own version, so I put my own spin of this category. 10.Yogi Bear (Ages 1 – 5) A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soonContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Greatest Children Films of All Time Volume 2”

Firstly, I know The Guardian which Newspaper of the year did their own version of Top 50 (can be found here). But this is my own version, so I put my own spin of this category. 10.The Wizard Of Oz (Ages 6 – 9) Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away byContinue reading “Article: Top 10 Greatest Children Films Of All Time Volume 1”

5.Parasite Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. With twist after twist but it never gets too overcomplicated, the pacing is perfect as it certainly holds your interest as this is never boring, this film is memorable from start to finish andContinue reading “Article: Top 5 Favourite Foreign Movies”