Letterboxd — Your life in film

To qualify the following few words I'm going to write on Snyder's latest comicbook adaptation, I am a fan of Superman as a character. What makes him so interesting to me is how flawed he can be, despite being pretty much a God among men. He is the ultimate being. The ubermensch. Whilst he himself may be practically invulnerable physically, it's the people around him that he cares for, the love he feels for friends, family and the species in…

Quite how this adaptation of a short Stephen King novella warranted an 18 certificate, I'm not sure. Pretty much nobody actually dies in this film, and those that do, you don't see it.

Not that I'm lusting after images of kids killing adults! Just that I think if you're going to make a horror film, the least you can do is show the horror.

I felt sure I'd seen Children of the Corn when I was younger, but none of…

With the 6th Child's Play movie (Curse of Chucky) due out this year, the final movie in the franchise before it gets a reboot from long time writer turned director Don Mancini, I thought I might as well get around to watching the 5th installment.

After Child's Play 2, my favourite in the series, I'd probably consider Bride of Chucky the second best. It is very different to the original conception of the series, and Seed of Chucky continues in…

Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film, released smack bang between The Godfather & The Godfather Part II, stars Gene Hackman as a secretive surveillance, erm, guy. He becomes all guilty when he starts to think the people he's spying on could be murdered based on the work he's been hired to do.

Although it's good, it's not really at the same level as his films that came before and after it. Hackman is very good, as you would expect. He comes across…

It may not sound like a "typical" Studio Ghibli film, the story of a bloke who reminisces about his school days, particularly about one girl and his best mate, but then I'm not really a fan of your typical Ghibli film anyway.

Ocean Waves is such a lovely film. Some of the key relationships seem a bit unusual at times, but I think there is a cultural divide that stops the film being too nostalgic for the viewer. Of course,…

Set in around 1870, Jimmy Stewart attempts to make peace with Apache leader Cochise only for narrow-minded white-folk to constantly threaten to ruin it, as well as a bunch of rebelling Indians led by Geronimo. As many others have said over the past 63 years, it is a very progressive film for the way it portrays the native American's.

As someone who isn't fond of westerns usually, I was actually really enjoying this film for a while. It didn't seem…

De Niro's name is also all over the poster and descriptions of this film, despite hardly being in it at all. It's mainly focussed on Meryl Streep, who is visiting her sister (Diane Keaton) who has leukemia, to see if she can donate some bone marrow. They haven't spoken in 20 years after some family bust up, so it's fair to say things a little bit tetchy.

Streep brings her son, Leo DiCaprio, with her too, who is quite the…

"Is that.. Lenny Kravitz? I think it is you know. Why is he being all.. sexual? I bet he can't help it. That's just how he is, I reckon. He's Lenny Kravitz for Christ's sake. Oh, now he's touching her face and all up in her personal space. Can they show that? What rating is this? Kravitz is too sexy for this movie."

And that's about the level of interest I maintained throughout The Hunger Games. For such an interesting…

Soderbergh's last film sadly before retiring is a biopic of flamboyant gay pianist Liberace and the relationship he had to his partner Scott.

There were lots of things I liked about this without ever thinking it was particularly extraordinary for long stretches, although there are some really memorable and great sequences. The first time Liberace steps on stage and sits at his piano, you can understand why Scott was swept up in the moment. It does seem magical and must've…

Will Smith plays the dad, Jaden Smith plays the son, set in the future, Jaden is stranded on Earth on his own ECCEPT FOR DA ALIEN WHAT SMELS FEAR. Someone really should've taken a closer look at the script before signing off.

I thought Fast & Furious 6 was going to be the dumbest film I'd see this year, but After Earth runs it close. I mean, it has a pleasant enough story that runs from A-Z at a gentle pace.…

I can see this being a rather controversial opinion, but REC3 is probably my favourite of all of the REC films.

I like the way that after 20 minutes in, it just ditches the wedding video stuff so unexpectedly and you get more of a traditional style zombie film. I suppose because the previous two films are found footage, that you don't expect it to break away so sharply. In that sense, it's not very "REC"y at all, more like…

Ben Wheatley's weird, dark, ultra-violent horror/thriller-type film that follows two guns for hire, focussing mostly on one of which (played by Neil Maskell, who is the best thing about the film) is not your standard British horror film.

The "horror" element is derived from the human characters acting in a way you cannot empathise with. Painting a portrait of murderers as having domestic problems, being all chummy and so on, it humanises people we generally see as monsters. It creates…