After a long time without even thinking about reviewing movies, I was suddenly, blessed with watching one of the best masterpieces I have ever seen. Star Wars Uncut is fan based remake of the massive hit “Star Wars: A New Hope” in which contributers from all over the world, recorded short 15 second segments which were expertly stitched together to form the final gem. The brainchild of Casey Pugh, this project of epic proportion took only a year to create and with a simply mind blowing budget of $0 what has been achieved is simply mind blowing.

For those of you who have just crawled out from under your rock, let me remind you of the basic story of Star Wars. Big war, good vs bad. Young hero thrust into the heart of the action with two witty android sidekicks. Avenging the death of his close family members and fighting for good he leads the team to victory in the epic finale. Boy becomes hero, shares a kiss with his (unknown until the next movie) twin sister and the...

The current trend for rebooting films has finally come full circle and we’re now treated to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a film that will mark the second time the Planet of the Apes series has been done over. The first attempt was the notoriously bad Tim Burton remake of the original which, although financially successful was critically panned. This put the planned sequel on the backburner and the franchise has remained in something of a limbo and now the whole cycle has started again with a film that seems to have created a whole new set of continuity, ignoring almost all the plot points from the late Apes films and just keeping the bare bones of the original.

The plot here is that James Franco is a scientist working for the Gensys Corporation and attempting to develop a cure to Alzheimer’s, a disease which is currently in the process of taking his father (John Lithgow) away from him. He eventually successfully develops a virus which repairs...

Following on from the success of numerous comic book movie adaptations, it was only a matter of time before the Green Lantern corps hit our screens. Based around the story of the first human Green Lantern recruit, the plot follows Hal Jordan, a test pilot, who is chosen to replace the dying alien Abin Sur. At first, Hal is a bit hesitant about fulfilling his new found role in the universe, but inevitably, he is persuaded to fight for team will against team fear in the ultimate battle or good vs. evil!

The film kicks off well and follows the general comic story as best it can, introducing us to the main Lanterns and giving us a basic insight into what is going on. The embodiment of fear itself, named Parallax, has escaped from his imprisonment and is charging around the universe whooping everyones ass. The Green Lantern Corps, aka the space police, are really all that stands in his way and using their rings of power, begin to devise a plan to halt Parallax’s march. All whilst...

Battle: Los Angeles is the latest high budget alien invasion film to come out of Hollywood. It’s starring cast and different approach to the classic tale made it a very appealing release but with a director relatively inexperienced out with the horror scene, this always had the potential to be another so close yet so far fairytale. Having said that, I went to view this full of excitement and with high expectation. It is one of my favorite genres and although not everyone will agree, I actually liked Liebesman’s Texas Chainsaw and really hoped he could pull this one off.

Without giving too much of the intricate details away, this in essence is the classic alien invasion tale. Aliens invade, they are stronger and better equipped than us and begin pummeling out military might. When it all seems over a near miracle happens and boom we send E.T back home to lick his wounds. Yeah it is a little unoriginal in that department...

Right so let me get this straight. Here we have a film, largely financed by Elton John, featuring almost all of his back catalogue of music,  has a cast that includes pretty much every British actor in the history of the world including Ozzy Osbourne and a cameo from Hulk Hogan (WTF?) and is a bastardisation of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies retooled to reach the ‘family audience’. How does this thing not suck?

In the main, this can be attributed to the confident direction of Kelly Asbury. Having previously taken the reins of Shrek 2, it’s clear that he knows exactly how to handle parodies without being too heavy handed. It would have been extremely easy for this film to descend into a stupid slapstick parody only aimed at kids and boring everyone else to tears, but instead the jokes end up being evenly paced and even when the jokes misfire (which is infrequent) there’s always a funnier line coming up shortly to...