The Return of the King (1980) – BMDb
dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr A recurring musical refrain in The Return of the King goes, “It’s so easy not to try.” It’s so easy to try and use that line to judge the f…| BMDb
dir. Stefen Fangmeier A young farm boy, Eragon, stumbles upon a mysterious blue stone which soon hatches into a dragon. Thus, he is pulled in to a great adventure to save the kingdom of Alagaësia from the evil Galbatorix. These two sentences characterise Eragon – top level exposition conveying the most shallow “chosen one” fantasyContinue reading "Eragon (2006)"| BMDb
dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr A recurring musical refrain in The Return of the King goes, “It’s so easy not to try.” It’s so easy to try and use that line to judge the f…| BMDb
dir. Brian Robbins The premise of this reboot movie, The Shaggy Dog, sounds completely insane. Because it is. Tim Allen plays a man who is bitten by a sacred immortal dog. This means he is now able to transform into a dog, although only sometimes, and it’s never quite clear what exactly provokes the transformation.Continue reading "The Shaggy Dog (2006)"| BMDb
dir. William Byron Hillman “Sarah, the dog’s cute, but this is ridiculous.” This line of dialogue pretty much sums up the entirety of Quigley, in which Gary Busey’s generic …| BMDb
dir. Blair Hayes Jimmy (Jake Gyllenhaal) has lived in a sterilised plastic dome since birth due to having no immune system. Due to his isolation and overbearing mother, he is stuck in a naive, childlike state throughout his life. When his friend says she is leaving to get married, Jimmy decides to leave his homeContinue reading "Bubble Boy (2001)"| BMDb
dir. Tyler Spindel In Kinda Pregnant, Lainy (Amy Schumer) plays a woman who straps a fake belly to herself and pretends to be pregnant. Rather than treating this as the psychological horror show th…| BMDb
dir. Anthony and Joe Russo The graphic novel The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag is highly regarded as a great piece of fiction. Its best elements were ostensibly left behind in this one-dimensional, painfully shallow adaptation. In a dystopian alternative reality where humans and robots waged a devasting war, Millie Bobby Brown plays Michelle, aContinue reading "The Electric State (2025)"| BMDb
dir. Abbas-Mustan Engineer Deven Chaudhary (Ajay Devgn) is locked into his car and drowned by a group of businessmen who want to steal his futuristic car designs. Twelve years later, Deven’s …| BMDb
dir. Ishana Night Shyamalan In The Watchers, Mina (Dakota Fanning) – through a rather specific set of circumstances involving delivering a parrot – finds herself lost in an Irish forest. She soon meets up with other humans in a bunker who are stuck there, all at the whim of “The Watchers”, mysterious creatures who murderContinue reading "The Watchers (2024)"| BMDb
dir. Francis Ford Coppola A misunderstood, maligned artistic genius has the vision and skill to save the world from itself, if only the people would listen. This not only describes the central prem…| BMDb
