Like the time travelling cousin to Josh Trank’s Chronicle, out comes director Dean Israelite’s Project Almanac, a solid-but-a-bit-predictable thriller which plays around with the found footage genre (wait, come back!) and presents you with a question that you may have already answered in the … [Read more...]
Marvel’s big space adventure – Guardians of the Galaxy – Dork Review
What do you get when you put two bounty hunters, an assassin, a space pirate and a vengeful maniac in the same space ship and have them work together as a team? You get Marvel Studios' biggest risk so far: a riotous space adventure based on a relatively unknown comic property, with a cast as ragtag … [Read more...]
Jolie’s horns of justice – Maleficent – Dork Review
You think you know the story, but do you actually know the story? This week, Disney unleashes their live action re imagining of fairy tale classic, Sleeping Beauty. With Angelina Jolie as the fairy with the world's greatest cheekbones, surely you can bet that you're in good hands for … [Read more...]
Oh Crumbs – The World’s End – Dork Review
In a cinematic summer that seems hell-bent on destroying Hollywood, Hong Kong and even the entire planet Earth, spare a thought for the citizens of Newton Haven. It might be a fictional village, but something rather nasty is happening to it... Closing off the loosely-connected Cornetto Trilogy … [Read more...]
The Next Three Days – Dork Review
There are a lot of films out there in which a regular chap (or occasionally chap-ess) suffers some personal setback or tragedy, often involving a child or love interest being endangered or killed. They immediately snap, seize the nearest automatic weapon and become an action hero. In The Next … [Read more...]