Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller Summer is here and that means it’s time for action blockbusters to keep people entertained through the holiday period. Skyscraper has been billed as a film that has raised audience fitbit readings according to Dwayne himself which sounds like a good sign … Continue reading Skyscraper (2018)
Month: July 2018
True Blood (Season 1)
[Originally published on dooyoo in 2009, improved and heavily rewritten in 2018] Based on Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels and brought to the small screen by Alan Ball, most well-known for creating HBO hit Six Feet Under, True Blood brought vampires back into the mainstream again in a less suitable for teens manner a few … Continue reading True Blood (Season 1)
The First Purge (2018)
Director: Gerard McMurray Starring: Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Y’lan Noel, Marisa Tomei The latest installment to The Purge franchise has made it's way to cinemas during a time where horror has become almost mainstream and more importantly damned good. Taking the audience back to the first ever run of a night of lawlessness for … Continue reading The First Purge (2018)
The Endless (2018)
Directors: Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson Starring: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, James Jordan, Shane Brady, Tate Ellington, Lew Temple, Kira Powell Continuing on from Resolution and Spring, Moorhead and Benson are back with another Lovecraftian tale of hidden dark forces in the form of The Endless, a twisty sci-fi horror made on a tiny … Continue reading The Endless (2018)
Tag (2018)
Director: Jeff Tomsic With: Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress We’ve had films with some odd premises of late (The Emoji Movie I’m looking squarely at you, honestly WTF?) and somewhat in that vein comes goofy action comedy Tag, a loose adaption of a true story that appeared in the Wall … Continue reading Tag (2018)
Special Features with Stacey Shaw 