Reviews of the Bosch

          After her terrific performance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens , it was expected that Daisy Ridley would start showing up in other films. But many people may not be aware that she just has, though in one that’s only getting a limited release and was in fact actually released twenty-five years ago.           Only Yesterday originally released in 1991, is an animated film from Studio Ghibli made by the great Isao Takahata -the filmmaker behind the powerful Grave of the Fireflies and the more recently captivating The Tale of the Princess Kaguya . Until now it’s never been dubbed in English as every other Studio Ghibli film has. Thanks to GKIDS however it’s finally come to North America with an English dub starring Daisy Ridley and Dev Patel and is certainly a long time coming. With how long it’s taken, you might fear it’s because of poor reception or that this was the film Studio Ghibli didn’t want re-released arou...

How about those Oscars? The highs, the lows, the bear from The Revenant showing up. Let's recap:

         Sleeping Beauty is the third Disney Princess movie. And that’s sort of what it’s known for, being the third one; that it’s not as good or well-known as Snow White or Cinderella , but it exists. In many ways this is true, it’s not as good as its predecessors, but there are certainly some very good aspects to it that deserve to be remembered and addressed.           In a medieval kingdom in the 14th century, King Stefan and Queen Leah are finally able to have a child. On the day of christening for the child Aurora, the whole kingdom turns up to celebrate and she’s even betrothed in marriage to Philip, son of King Hubert, as a political alliance. But the party is interrupted when the sorceress Maleficent shows up uninvited and plants a curse on the young Aurora that on her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. Three fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather who had earlier...

          It’s almost Oscar time! 2015 was quite a year for film regardless of how you feel the Academy represented that. And though they’re not all nominated, these are the films I think ought to be. These are my ten best films of 2015! 10. Kingsman: The Secret Service was the first good movie of the year. It’s smart, stylish, funny, and absolutely exciting. Based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and David Gibbons, the film centres on Eggsy played by Taron Egerton, an average young Londoner and something of a vagrant who is inducted into the Kingsmen, an elite and classy order of highly trained  secret agent gentlemen. The movie pays plenty of tribute to the classic Bond films, from the charm and dedication of Colin Firth’s performance to Samuel L. Jackson’s over-the-top villain, and the most of Mark Hamill we saw last year. But director Matthew Vaughn enriches it with quick and energetic action that’s incredible to watch, and a sense of humour tha...

          In the past week a number of internet media outlets were going crazy about the Friends reunion that happened last night on NBC. All these headlines of “ Friends Reunion on TV this Sunday!” or “Why isn’t Chandler attending the Friends Reunion?” were floating about and it pissed me off. Not because I particularly dislike Friends (it was an okay show) or have anything against the cast reuniting, but because no one gave a damn about the reason for the reunion. Everyone was so focussed on seeing Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, and co. together again that nobody seemed interested in the fact that the reunion was only one of a number of TV cast get-togethers to celebrate the legacy of arguably the greatest sitcom director, James Burrows.           In my opinion James Burrows’ career is much more worthy of focus than six people from a 90’s show being in the same room together. This is a man whose career has spanned decades a...

          You can’t get much cuter than a love story about two dogs, and I think Disney realized how profitable that could be when they made Lady and the Tramp , which is that classic story about a high class beauty and a low class guy coming together and falling in love. But done with dogs. Despite having one of Disney’s iconic scenes, this isn’t a film that a lot of people think about. And there are reasons for this, but also reasons it should be remembered.           Lady is a cocker spaniel given as a Christmas gift by a well-off young man to his wife. She enjoys her life with the couple in their nice house, pampered and privileged occasionally interacting with other neighbourhood dogs Jock and Trusty. But she soon learns that her owners are about to have a baby and spurned on by the warnings of a street dog called the Tramp, worries that it’ll push her out of their lives. After the baby is born she is put in the care of Aunt...

         In 2009, comic book fans were excited for the appearance of Marvel favourite Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine . They even got massive Deadpool fan Ryan Reynolds to play the character. Then they saw the movie and quickly wanted a refund; among other reasons for the fact that they got everything about Deadpool wrong. And maybe no one was more upset than Ryan Reynolds himself.           The fact that 20th Century Fox gave Reynolds another chance to play this character was more than generous. As was the decision to completely reboot the idea of Deadpool for his own feature. And with Reynolds getting more creative control of the character, as well as the film being granted an R rating to better reflect the tone of the comic, and an amazingly impressive marketing campaign including online holiday videos, a cancer PSA, and even a TV spot for The Bachelor, the hype for this film was growing. And now finally Deadpool has arriv...