Transformers: Dark of the Moon [Review]

Shia LaBeouf lives a fairly abnormal life. You or I might wake up, grab a bite to eat and head off to the daily grind. But LaBeouf enjoys no such frivolities. Seemingly a typical day for our hero consists of waking up, being faced with impending doom and giant transforming robots, before ending in a haze of barrel-rolling gunfire and smog in a bland American cityscape. He wakes in a daze, a typically beautiful woman thrusting cuddly toys in his...

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Remember Potter? A Saga Overview

The past ten years have been a tumultuous rollercoaster ride for the Potter franchise - we’re not talking box office figures here, which are pretty much certified high, but instead the ability of each film to hold its own as a piece of cinematic art. Some managed it; others did not. The penultimate chapter, I’m happy to say, did. With the saga’s climax, Deathly Hallows: Part II, due for imminent release in cinemas, I revisited the first half...

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Blue Bloods - Series 1 [Review]

What struck me most in the four months I’ve been watching Blue Bloods (on a weekly basis as per the limits of Sky TV’s viewing schedule) was how inherently the scripts, week in, week out, bled with typical American morals and values. There’s the average American family: four generations, tighter knit than your annual Christmas sweater, all in virtually the same profession, aspiring to be ‘just like dad’. Then there are the weekly dinners, a custom...

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