Charlie Green

Gone With The Movies • 12th April 2016

'The Man Who Knew Infinity' (2016)

Since Danny Boyle’s 2008 hit, Slumdog Millionaire, Indian culture has taken a front-row spot in Hollywood’s cinema screens, with films such as The Million Dollar Arm and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel springing to mind. It is safe to say that it is popular spot to set a film. Mixed with the ‘genius-biopic’ narrative...

Gone With The Movies • 16th February 2016

'High-Rise' (2016)

Adapted by J.G Ballard’s book of the same title, High-Rise is simply bizarre. But let’s wind back a bit and try to explain and justify it. The year is 1975 and moving into a promising new high-rise community is Tom Hiddleston’s character Dr. Robert Laing. Mellow and precise, Laing slowly settles into the accommodation...

Gone With The Movies • 15th October 2015

'Black Mass' (2015)

Johnny Depp has a varied film career – and that isn’t exactly a bold statement. To date, he has seventy-five performances under his belt. In which he has played about seventy different character roles – from Indians, to vampires, to pirates – the only thing he hasn’t played (yet) is a CGI kitchen sink!...

Gone With The Movies • 7th October 2015

'99 Homes' (2015)

‘America wasn’t built by bailing out losers. It was built by backing winners’ - how is that for an American Dream statement? Written and directed by Ramin Bahari, that is essentially what 99 Homes is - a statement. A harrowing statement about one of America’s saddest times at that...

Gone With The Movies • 5th October 2015

'Kill Your Friends' (2015)

Imagine this; a drugged and topless James Corden on a table dancing to 90’s tunes and vinyl CD’s until he passed out onto the floor where upon he is then urinated on by Nicholas Hoult. That is literally how the opening scenes to Kill Your Friends starts … promising an unconventional...

Gone With The Movies • 6th September 2015

'Legend' (2015)

The only thing better than watching Tom Hardy in a film is watching two Tom Hardys in a film – or at least that is the films selling point. Having mastered the brutish roles in Bronson, Warrior and The Dark Knight Rises, portraying identical gangster twins, Ronnie and Reggie Kray in his latest film, Legend...

Gone With The Movies • 5th September 2015

No Escape (2015)

Owen Wilson’s last non-comedic role was in 2001’s Behind Enemy Lines. It was tense, real and showed his potential as an actor. Since then, he has almost declined into an abyss of type-cast ‘comedy’ films, where he plays rather silly portrayals or silly narratives for films that barely make back their budget...

Gone With The Movies • 24th August 2015

The Man From U.N.C.L.E (2015)

2015 is well and truly the year of spy movies. Now entering the double digits, we’ve had em’ all: Bond, Mission Impossible, Spooks, Kingsman (and so-on). And now, forty-eight years after the TV series finished, we have The Man From U.N.C.L.E returning to screens! Directed by Guy Ritchie...

Gone With The Movies • 5th August 2015

Fantastic Four (2015)

Despite already having two films under its belt, Fantastic Four has never felt like it has been a ‘good’ superhero franchise. Now, on its third attempt in just ten years, does rebooting, reshooting and adding a younger cast make a difference to the franchises needed / deserved success? ...

Gone With The Movies • 15th April 2015

Fast and Furious 7 (2015)

From small car races in deserts, to international heists, to saving the world heroics – nobody could have predicted the Fast and Furious franchise’s success when it first came out. Now, on its seventh film - which alone is well on its way to grossing one-billion dollars – the franchise doesn’t...

Gone With The Movies • 1st March 2015

Get Hard (2015) :: Gone With The Movies

Given the title 'Get Hard', writer and director Etan Cohen has a very specific audience in mind. Adding Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart into a mix of sexual innuendos and cheesy humour comes as no surprise either. Playing a corporate big shot, Ferrell’s character becomes incarcerated ...

Gone With The Movies • 1st March 2015

Insurgent (2015)

Based on the incredibly successful Divergent book series, Insurgent (a sequel to the first film), continues where it left off. Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) must confront her inner demons and fight again a powerful alliance that threatens her society. It has the stellar casting of Jai Courtney...

Gone With The Movies • 1st March 2015

Cinderella (2015)

The tale of Cinderella has been told many of times. This time around, and adapted for the live-action big screen by Kenneth Branagh, comes a burst of new energy into the out-lived story. With a longitude of talented cast included (Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Helena Bonham Carter...

Gone With The Movies • 1st March 2015

The Gunman (2015)

Sean Penn 'does a Taken' and follows Liam Neeson's stride as the ageing hitman who comes out of retirement for one last job. Even with the same director as Taken, the same background formula and visually similar action, The Gunman fails to hit its target and instead gives mild entertainment of Penn ...

Gone With The Movies • 1st March 2015

Chappie (2015)

Continuing his ‘Sharlto Copley trilogy’, director Niel Bloomkamp's latest film (also South African-based) is probably his best. Chappie, an artificial intelligent robot, is forced into loving with and helping criminals in gang-land SA’. Starring an ensemble of Copely (Chappie's voice), Hugh..

Gone With The Movies • 1st March 2015

Run All Night (2015)

Since the success of Taken, Liam Neeson has been quite busy. Sadly though, it is busy making carbon-copies of the same film, the same formula and the same action. His latest, Run All Night, albeit nobody is taken, does have the similar tones. Playing an ex-hitman, Jimmy 'The Gravedigger' Conlon, Neeson...

Gone With The Movies • 27th February 2015

The Voice (2015)

Out of his six films this year, The Voices is by far Ryan Reynolds most bizarre. Playing a reasonably likeable guy, Reynolds character pursues after his office crush - with of course the help of his evil talking pets (!?). As things get even weirder (talking heads in a fridge), things soon turn sinister ...

Gone With The Movies • 25th February 2015

Catch Me Daddy (2015)

When director David Wolfe first had inspirations for Catch Me Daddy it was – of all things – reading a newspaper article. Based from what he read, he cinematised it for the big screen. In the film, we follow Leila, a girl on the run from her family, who is now hiding out in West Yorkshire...

Gone With The Movies • 23rd February 2015

It Follows (2015)

The problem with recent horror films is that they often lack originality. Predictability, cliché and cheesy remakes often plague the genre. So what writer and director, David Robert Mitchell attempts is to create something new, with genuine horror - not jump-scares or convention...

Gone With The Movies • 21st February 2015

Focus (2015)

After Will Smith’s last two films – the disastrous After Earth, and the mediocre Men In Black 3 – it was unclear of where his acting career was going, and if his films were ever going to get any better again. Now, picking up an Ocean’s Eleven-type con-film, he seems to be on the right track...