Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

2013 Movie Reviews and Awards! There were a few movies released this year and I'm sorry I didn't find the time to post more critiques on them but here's what you need to know, in short. Pacific Rim  is GREAT. It doesn't try to be pretentious at all. It knows that its characters can't do the accents it's trying to. It knows that the dialogue is as ridden with cliches as it is cringeworthy. It realises that Ron Pearlman is a joke in it. But it doesn't pretend to be anything else. It is over the top. It is simple. It is a giant robot attacking a giant alien with a sword. And it is bloody entertaining! The Wolverine  is SMART, for the most part anyway. How do you approach the superhero genre after we have witnessed the Avengers? Are you going to try and beat it's Outrageous battle scenes? Try and better the special effects? Try and compete with its action scenes? With aWolverine film you could be tempted but they went down a different ro...

Not Another Happy New Year Post: A Year in the Life of an All Round Entertainer Why am I posting now? Because it's a new year so it's a new me? Nope. I'm posting now because for the first time in about 3 years I've actually had more than a week off and I've had some recovering to do. Keep reading for what I've been up to, news on more movie analysis and reviews and a look to my plans for the new year. 2013. What a year it's been, where to start? I haven't posted since July and here's a quick summary of what I've been up to. Well first of all the big highlight of the year was graduating. I have my degree so now you HAVE to accept my movie reviews as gospel. They are correct, I have been endorsed. Nicolas Cage is a versatile and credible actor and Indiana Jones 4 is a good movie. I got my first job in the industry, which was a pretty big step. I started off as a runner in an animation company with literally no training ...