X-Men:
Dark Phoenix (12A) –
what’s it about? After Jean has a close encounter in space her powers begin to grow,
and she aligns herself with her new dark inner forces.
This is supposedly the
final in this series with the new X-Men and it is a nice end to the story, it
could have done with another film though before this rather than bam the Phoenix
story in just one movie. That said this is still a great film, though I may be
bias as I love the X-Men and this is by far my favourite part of the Marvel universe,
and plus you know you get to see Nightcrawler <3 total fangirl. Ok yeah, it’s
a good film if you enjoyed the newer X-Men movies, it’s got a good lot of story
and action scenes.
Meet
the Fockers (DVD – 12) –
what’s it about? The sequel to Meet the Parents where the Byrnes family meet up
with the Focker family with amusing consequences.
So if you liked Meet the
Parents then this would be right up your street. It continues on in the same
vein but this time at the Focker residence, and you can’t get such different
families its amusing. Yeah, it’s filled with humour and some things that are like
ohhh I probably shouldn’t be laughing at their misfortune/situation but as it’s
a movie and just make believe its ok. If you like a giggle at some stupid humour,
then you know check out this series of films.
Rating: ***
Ghost
World (DVD – 15) – what’s
it about? A couple of teenage girls finish high school and basically this is
about their lives whilst they figure out what to do with themselves.
Ok I’m trying to think
about something positive for this movie and well I’m sorry, but I can’t. Well I
thought I’d give it a watch as I’d never seen it and I don’t think I will ever
watch it again because it was bloody awful. The story was really boring and
slow, not much actually happened and it wasn’t really funny at all even though
it’s sold as a comedy – I don’t think I laughed once! Yeah this is what two
hours of my life I’ll never get back, seriously don’t even bother with this one…well
unless you want to bore someone to sleep that is.
Rating: *
Little
Fockers (DVD – 12) –
what’s it about? The third and final film in the “Meet the Parents” series, where
the families get together for the twins birthday party.
Well I actually had to
watch this after watching Ghost World because I wanted something to bring me up
after the massive downer of that film and I thought this one may lift my spirits
and that it did. It gave me quite a few giggles, it’s one of those where you
can just watch and not really think about anything, some parts make you a
little cringey, but others are just amusing as you can see it happening in real
life. Yep if you liked the previous movies then this one is worth watching too,
it may not be as good as it’s all been done a few times before but it’s still a
good light-hearted movie to watch.