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Mortal Engines ** (2018, Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, Jihae, Robert Sheehan, Leila George, Stephen Lang) – Movie Review

Director Christian Rivers’s 2018 teen fantasy action adventure Mortal Engines is very shakily based on the young adult novel of the same name by Philip Reeves. The story is cheesy and unconvincing on screen, lacking […]

Dec, 08

Maze Runner: The Death Cure *** (2018, Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Ki Hong Lee, Katherine McNamara, Rosa Salazar) – Movie Review

In the epic finale to The Maze Runner saga, Dylan O’Brien returns as young hero Thomas, who leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final mission to break into the WCKD controlled last city […]

Jan, 23

Girls Lost [Pojkarna] **** (2015 Mandus Berg, Adam Dahlgren, Malin Eriksson, Alexander Gustavsson, Wilma Holmén, Tuva Jagell) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Alexandra-Therese Keining’s entrancing 2015 Scandinavian film is provocative, haunting and very special, brilliantly acted and cleverly done. Keining’s screenplay is based on Jessica Schiefauer’s novel in which the friendship of three young girls is tested after […]

Nov, 04

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ** (2016, Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L Jackson, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Chris O’Dowd, Ella Purnell) – Movie Review

Director Tim Burton’s 2016 teenage fantasy adventure movie is, as ever, intriguing and lovingly crafted, not to mention strongly cast, but this time a disappointing let-down. I’m afraid I was rather bored by the dull and […]

Sep, 28

I Am Number Four **½ (2011, Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe, Jake Abel) – Classic Movie Review 4230

Alex Pettyfer stars as teenage hero John Smith in director D J Caruso’s interesting and intriguing though somehow lacking 2011 teen sci-fi action adventure thriller, based on Pittacus Lore’s young adult novel. Aliens and their guardians are hiding […]

Sep, 20

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief ** (2010, Logan Lerman, Sean Bean, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T Jackson, Catherine Keener, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Kevin McKidd, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Jake Abel, Joe Pantoliano) – Classic Movie Review 4334

A hero called Percy? I don’t think so! Logan Lerman lands a huge star part but a short straw as an over-cute American high schooler, who turns out to be a demi-god. No, really! Even if […]

Sep, 10

The Divergent Series: Allegiant ***½ (2016, Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Jeff Daniels, Zoë Kravitz, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, Bill Skarsgård, Jonny Weston, Maggie Q, Octavia Spencer) – Movie Review

The third instalment of the blockbuster franchise shows the Divergent series getting better and better. With Veronica Roth’s third series novel Allegiant split into two movies – the fourth franchise to do so, after Harry Potter, The […]

Mar, 07

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