Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: The Commuter starts slow and never really gets into second gear. What should have been throw away action thriller ends up being so laughably bad that by the end I wasn’t quite sure if it was meant to be a parody or not. This is no …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: Its taken me over 30 years but I finally watched The Breakfast Club. And i wasn’t disappointed. It’s odd how certain films skip you by but despite rating similar themed coming of age film Ferris Bueller as one of my favourite films fo all time, I …
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Phil’s (Not So) Quick Capsule Review: Empire Records was a massive bomb on it’s original release. Critically and commercially. Roger Ebert hated it (that said he hated The Usual Suspects…), Variety labelled it as “Soundtrack in search for a movie” and it grossed under £300k on it’s theatrical release. Yet as the years …
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Phil’s Quick Review takes a look at a film that you may not have seen first time around and lets you know, in 5 concise reasons, WHY it deserves your time! The Plot: Empire Records is a 1995 American coming of age film that follows a group of record store employees over the course …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: The Perfect Weapon is one of the best 90’s direct to video action films that you probably haven’t seen. Starring genuine hard man Jeff Speakman and a host of “Oh It’s him ” cast members (Mako, James Hong, Professor Tanaka to name but three), it’s low …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: Tank Girl is a hot mess. And the film is pretty chaotic also. Considered a flop in it’s day (it didn’t do good business and reviews were luke warm to say the least) I always held an odd affection for this slice of 90’s insanity. Watching …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: So the Last Jedi is good. On balance it could well be the best true Star Wars film since Jedi and It’s fair to say when it delivers it knocks it out the park – The opening, Rey/Ren, The finale. Even better watching it back on …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: Tonally Ready Player One is a bit of a mess. The humour doesn’t always work alongside the darker story undertones and the amount of swearing is very unusual for a Spielberg film. This all said – Ready Player One is visually stunning and as you’d expect …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: I liked the first two Pitch Perfect films. They were charming, funny and had a good heart. Pitch Perfect 3 pretty much throws most of that aside for an odd story that doesn’t really do much to advance the characters as it ups the action (in a …
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Phil’s Quick Capsule Review: It’s a shame that Peter Rabbit takes so many missteps because, at it’s heart, it’s got all the pieces in place to have been a good film. This said Sony need some serious guidance on how to script edit – there’s no way the berry sequence …
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