Posts by Mad Dog Bradley
Seventh Son Review
Overloaded with 3D dragons, characters transforming into bears and panthers, supernatural explosions and other humdrum but expensive CGI stuff.
Monster Of The Week
”more fun than a barrel full of Bigfoots”
Interview: Jeff Bridges, Star of Seventh Son
”Discovering the tone of a picture is always a challenge, especially in a movie like this where you don’t want to take yourself too seriously – but you also don’t want to make it all seem too flippant too”
Project Almanac Review
Time travel movies are always pretty silly, but feature début director Dean Israelite’s epic is enjoyably silly, with appealing semi-unknown leads, some nice gags and lots of wannabe-brain-bending paradoxes.
A Most Violent Year Review
Writer/director J.C. Chandor’s third film is a drama set in New York in 1981, apparently the city’s most crime-ridden year.
The Second Best Most Exotic Marigold Hotel Review
The first Marigold Hotel was a beloved favourite, and this sequel is another license to, ahem, print money.
Beatlemania
”Pleasing roughness and rawness”
Bec Hill In… Ellipsis
”mind-reading antics with a hapless audience member were charming”
Jupiter Ascending Review
Hopelessly boring and overstuffed with endless, meaningless CG carry-on, Jupiter Ascending features a cast mostly unrecognisable under all the FX, make-up and silly voices, and seemingly all trying for the film’s worst performance.
Review: Rosewater
Jon Stewart, soon-to-be-ex-host of The Daily Show, makes his impressive feature début as script adaptor, co-producer and director with this powerful drama.
