Category Archives: Movie Review

5 stars Pequels are still on trend in Hollywood, and the latest addition to the ranks fills in the backstory of entrenched cult classic Alien. Director Ridley Scott returns to helm the franchise’s sixth instalment, yet for all the questions Prometheus asks, it offers very little in the way of answers. Set in the year 2093, exploratory […]

4 stars Clarissa Meffan, MovieFix Brave is Pixar’s highly anticipated movie release for 2012 – a funny and adventurous piece of animation just in time for the July school holidays. Set in the luscious Scottish highlands, Brave is a fairy tale adventure about Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), the headstrong and tomboyish princess with a head full of lovely […]

Directors Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier extend the Ice Age franchise with more wild adventures, wonderfully voiced characters, beautifully rendered animation, and of course, the return of Scrat, the acorn-amorous squirrel. Apart from the bespoke continental drift, (inadvertently caused by Scrat), no new ground is broken, but it’s a great prehistoric ride for the kids. Manny (Ray Romano) is now a […]

Seth MacFarlane, the creator of cult animated television series Family Guy, takes his first foray into film with Ted. The story picks up with John (Mark Wahlberg), a bullied single child living in a small town outside of Boston. With no friends to play with, John becomes inseparable from his plush bear, Ted. One night he wishes […]