Snow White and the Huntsman

It’s been a while, but I managed to drag myself to the cinema (not to see Prometheus, unfortunately, because I’ve promised the Certain Someone that I’d wait). I had a rather dark yet disney-esque experience with Snow White and the Huntsman. 

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I can fly!

Movie: Chronicle (2012)

As a lover of superhero (or super-power) movies and TV shows, I have been looking forward to Chronicle since I first saw the trailer. The story “what if a group of regular people suddenly got superpowers” has a fair few examples these days, and I would argue that this version is a perfectly decent addition. It also falls into the more dubious category of “found footage” films, but it manages to not annoy me at all with a few clever workarounds.

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Radio Review: The Devil Inside

This week I had the not-so-pleasurable experience of watching yet another pseudo-documentary style scary movie. Unfortunately, The Devil Inside is not even in the same league as The Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity (1, 2 or 3 for that matter) and as for the exorcisms: in a word, tame, compared to its 40 year old predecessor, The Exorcist. It’s a dice roll 2 for this one, and I’m being nice.