After a release date which was delayed time and time again, Sony’s Marvel movie, Morbius finally hits the big screen. So, the main question on everyone’s mind is, was it worth the wait?… The Short answer, no.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Batman’ (2022)
As we tour Gotham city on a dark, rainy night accompanied by a gritty narration announcing it’s “October 31st”, you can’t help but feel like you’re within the pages of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns.
“They think I’m hiding in the shadows… But I am the shadows.”
Shortly after this, we’re met with the Mayor of Gotham City, who meets his fate – in quite a brutal fashion – at the hands of our main antagonist, The Riddler (Paul Dano) and with that, we get straight into it.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Death on the Nile’ (2022)
This week Jacked In’s, Jack attended Tyneside Cinema’s classic screen to view the adaptation for Agatha Christie’s even more classic novel, Death on the Nile.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Jackass Forever’ (2022)
Originally starting as a series about a group of buddies carrying out stunts and pranks on each other, Jackass went on to spawn several feature films with bigger budgets that allowed these crazy individuals to take their antics to even greater heights. It’s fair to say Jackass certainly isn’t for everyone but love it or hate it, you know what you’re getting, and Jackass Forever certainly follows this tradition. Watching a bunch of people putting themselves in harm’s way for our amusement, what could be better?
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Boiling Point’ (2021)
After perusing their menu, Jacked In’s, Jack, grabbed a seat at Tyneside Cinema on 13/01/2022 and ordered Philip Barantini’s anxiety-inducing, one continuous shot, masterpiece, Boiling Point.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Licorice Pizza’ (2021)
Similar to Paul Thomas Anderson, Jacked In’s Jack has a massive appreciation for the vintage aesthetic. So, it’s only right that he viewed Anderson’s latest feature, Licorice Pizza, on 35mm for another classic experience at Newcastle upon Tyne’s Tyneside Cinema.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Titane’ (2021)
As the movie opens – following a brief tour of the underbelly of an automobile – we see a middle-aged man trying his damnedest to concentrate on the road whilst his young daughter, Alexia, misbehaves in the backseat, continuing to distract him.
Before we know it, she undoes her seatbelt and the Dad skids the car to a halt, causing Alexia’s head to brutally connect with the passenger window. You start to feel like a horrendous human being as a slight grin begins to pull on your face and with that you realize… Julia Ducournau (Raw) has done it again.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ (2021)
1999, the year a movie was released that broke grounds like no movie before it. It showed a bleak outlook on the future of humanity as they were harvested by machines, whilst a fake world, known as The Matrix, is pulled over their eyes. The war between humanity and AI was being fought in both the real world and the simulated world. The only difference being, with one’s RSI (Residual Self Image), you’re able to bend the rules and kick some serious ass… and then some.
It’s been nearly two decades since the gravity-defying, action-packed, mind-melting, cyberpunk franchise last graced the big screen. And with that, we swallow the red pill to see how deep the rabbit hole goes in Lana Wachowski’s, The Matrix Resurrections.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ (2021)
For fear of having to dodge spoilers like the Green Goblin’s pumpkin grenades, Jacked In’s Jack hit the theatre bright and early on December 15th, 2021 to get involved in Spider-Man: No Way Home (in IMAX of course).
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Die Hard’ (1988)
To solve the ongoing debate for whether or not Die Hard is in fact a Christmas movie, Jacked In’s Jack, reinvestigated by seeing the movie on the big screen at Tyneside Cinema on December 3rd 2021… Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf*cker!
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ (2021)
As the eerie paranormal music begins to play over the opening credits of Ghostbusters: Afterlife you’re immediately transported back to the ‘80s. Quickly followed by practical effects for some ghostly smoke, demonic hands busting out of chairs and a quick glimpse of aged, former Ghostbuster, Egon Spengler with the classic P.K.E meter and ghost trap, all this in the first scene and you are f*cking ready for this movie!.. Who Ya Gonna Call?
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Last Night in Soho’ (2021)
Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho is a psychological thriller that sees a young student who is able to travel back in time to 1960s London, how’s that for a slice of fried gold?!
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Psycho’ (1960)
On June 16th, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s rollercoaster of suspense, Psycho, first premiered in New York. On October 29th, 2021, sixty-one years later, Jacked In’s, Jack saw the horror classic on the big screen for the very first time, at Newcastle upon Tyne’s Tyneside Cinema.
The cinema’s vintage aesthetic, accompanied by the red curtain reclining just above the screen, complemented this classic, black and white picture perfectly. Despite being a movie I’ve seen many times before, when Bernard Herrmann’s score played alongside the – larger than life – opening credits as I was nestled in a velvet theatre seat; all those previous viewings fell by the wayside.
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Jacked In Reviews ‘Candyman’ (2021)
Warning this review has SPOILERS regarding Candyman (2021), so if you wish to keep the element of surprise intact, shield your eyes and run as far away as you can from your screen!
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Jacked In Reviews ‘The Suicide Squad’ (2021)
With the same premise as the previous movie (and obviously its literary inspiration) The Suicide Squad follows a bunch of villains on a (pretty much, suicidal) mission in order to deduct years from their prison sentences. From the first five minutes, you have hilarious new characters, brutal fatalities and a weasel-human hybrid that eats children, and with that, you’re immediately sold on this movie. As the new squad (and some returning members of this soft reboot) begin jumping into the sea on their latest assignment, the dirt from 2016’s Suicide Squad begins to wash off them and audience members alike.
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