Sacha Baron Cohen returns to the big screen with his latest character, The Dictator is the story of a North African dictator called Aladeen who takes it upon himself to risk his own life to travel to America trying to stop democracy coming to his beloved, if what oppressed, country.

The Dictator – Blazing Minds Film Review

So I’m going to start of this review by saying that I’ve never been a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen, Ali G was painful, Borat was terrible and Bruno was just like being tortured, now I’ve probably upset a lot of his fans now and they are all sitting reading this review and foaming at the mouth, but wait, I haven’t finished yet, that just the opening of my review.

The Dictator is different from the other as it’s on a bigger budget and you can tell this from the production of the film for the costumes, cameo roles and complete style of the film compared to his earlier movies.

What I do have to say is that The Dictator isn’t afraid to poke fun and insult almost everyone and even to the point of making fun of 911 whilst on a sight-seeing helicopter ride with some American tourists, too soon, not too sure, but it does touch on a nerve.

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So today was “Tuesday Film Club day”, it was the perfect way to see a new film to review and this weeks film to review was the new Tim Burton film “Dark Shadows”.

Loosely based on the TV sitcom that aired in America on ABC in the 60′s-70′s, Dark Shadows is about Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) who is cursed by a witch, Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), and turned in to a vampire and buried for 196 years, until he is released in 1972 and returns to his family home in Collinsport to find that his descendants have taken a turn for the worse and the town and family business has been taken over by somebody else.

Dark Shadows – Blazing Minds Film Review

So what we have with Dark Shadows is a typical Johnny Depp and Tim Burton film, full of dark satire, one liners, Johnny Depp looking rather odd and Helena Bonham-Carter as her usual nutty self

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Ok boys and girls it was review night for me last night and though I did tweet out that I was going to review “Safe” at a last minute change of mind, mainly to one of my friends going in to see Piranha 3DD, I decided to go in and see that with him instead.

Let me start off by saying it’s extremely hard to take a film seriously that has a selling point of DD in the title and yes that is a a selling point to the male population of between 18-25, but hey, this film isn’t supposed to be serious it’s a comedy-horror and I say horror loosely.

Piranha 3DD – Blazing Minds Film Review

So after the complete carnage of the previous film (Piranha 3D), those hungry prehistoric Piranhas are back to cause more bloodshed and complete silliness in a water park called Big Wet, where scantily clad teenage girls flaunt their stuff to the patrons and to the cinema watching audience in eye-popping 3D.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the last American Pie Movie, I’m talking about American Wedding in 2003 with the original cast, not those four awful spin-offs that we had to endure over the last 10 years.

So 10 Years after Jim and Michelle got married, we have the American Pie: Reunion (American Reunion) hitting our screens bringing back the original cast of the class of 1999 and now we find out what everyone has been up to and how their lives have changed in the last 10 years. Of course you just know they are all going to be getting up to things they shouldn’t and now, as adults, they should know better, but do they!?

American Pie: Reunion – Blazing Minds Film Review

Let’s face it folks when we had American Pie: The Wedding back in 2003, we all thought that it would be the end of the series of movies and what almost killed the franchise was the spin-offs, “American Pie Presents”, these were really all a poor excuse to try to bring a fresh bit of life to the movies and perhaps introduce a new audience to the American Pie films, but sadly they were terrible.

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The anticipation and build up to Avengers Assemble has been going for a while since way back when we were introduced to the big screen outing of @Marvel’s Iron Man then with The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and then finally Captain America which all got us itching for this movie to finally hit the big screen in 3D

Avengers Assemble 3D – Blazing Minds Film Review

So here we have the Avengers team brought together by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the director of S.H.I.E.L.D.,  including Iron Man (Robert Downey jr.), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) in attempt to save the world from Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and the power of a cube called the Tesserat.

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There comes a time when a film comes along and gives you a feeling of “Wow this is going to be so exciting” when you see the trailers and you just can’t wait to get you bum on the cinema seats and wait for the film to be projected on the big screen for you to enjoy its wonder!

Sadly Lockout, isn’t that film, yes the trailer looks awesome and to the film does look good as well, but the problem with Lockout is it’s just one of those films that seems to have had a script thrown together on a whim of an idea, this time by Luc Besson, with not much thought gone in to it after that point.

Yes the special effects are good, yes the action sequences are pretty exciting, but when it comes down to the acting and the script it really has a long way to go for perfection.

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It was a while back when I first saw the trailer for Cabin In The Woods and to be honest, I really wasn’t sure what it was going to be like, but the first thing that came to mind, after seeing the cabin, was The Evil Dead.

Even with the outline of the film, it sounded like The Evil Dead:

Five friends go for a break in a remote cabin in the woods, but they get more than what they were expecting. What horrors await them in the Cabin in the Woods.

No Spoilers Here For My Cabin In The Woods Review!

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