The Screen Scribe

Recommendation: Back to the Future

May 7, 2025

Back to the Future is one of those rare movies that you can watch over and over and never get bored. At least for me it is. One of my personal favourite films of all time, Back to the Future was well received upon initial release, with praise for the humour, plot and performances. Replacing…
Review: Sinners

May 5, 2025

It’s a rare thing indeed when a film makes me sit up straight in my seat and pay attention, completely engrossing me in the cinematic experience of a quality, well-crafted film, and make no mistake, Sinners is most definitely a cinematic experience. There’s this feeling I get when I’m watching a film that is truly…
Side Notes: Are Video Game Adaptations the New Hollywood Trend?

May 2, 2025

Hollywood has a new favourite toy, and it’s not a reboot, a sequel, or even a Marvel spin-off (for once). It’s video games. For decades, video game adaptations were Hollywood’s awkward side project. Remember the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie? No? Good — I try not to either. But lately, something’s changed. Now, video games…
Recommendations: The Mummy

April 30, 2025

After watching the Mask of Zorro last week I got the urge to dust off another favourite classic adventure film, The Mummy. Like Zorro, The Mummy is a light-hearted adventure and the kind of fun, escapist film that Hollywood just doesn’t seem to care about anymore, and despite being released in 1999, The Mummy holds…
Review: Daredevil – Born Again

April 28, 2025

Since 2019 Marvel Studios has had a rocky relationship with its fans as the decade long bank of goodwill earned through multiple billion-dollar critical hits quickly eroded as the once unstoppable studio churned out a conveyor belt of hit and miss projects, with the onus mostly on the misses. As not only an MCU fan…
Side Notes: Whitewashing and Colourblind Casting – The Double Standards of Modern Hollywood

April 26, 2025

A long running and problematic trend of not just modern cinema, but covering decades of Hollywood releases, is that of whitewashing. For those not familiar with the term, whitewashing is an industry practice where a white actor is cast in a non-white role, often to the chorus of star power or box office draw in…
Recommendation: The Mask of Zorro

April 23, 2025

Last week I found myself scrolling through the endless river of content on the various streaming services, aimlessly looking for something casual and fun to fire on and lo and behold, an absolute classic hidden in the depths of Amazon Prime. And you don’t even have to pay to rent the damn thing. Starring Anthony…
Review: A Working Man

April 21, 2025

I think we can all agree that Jason Statham is an iconic action actor, yes? Reliable, stoic, athletic, delivering entertaining if somewhat predictable action films with his usual sense of wry humor for nigh on 25 years now? Yes? Agreed? Good. Because unfortunately, A Working Man is most definitely not a Statham classic. At best, it’s a poor man’s Taken. Though it…
Side Notes: The Death of the Hero

April 18, 2025

I think it’s a fair assessment to say that modern culture has somehow, in some bizarre fucking way, become a culture without heroes. In this week’s Recommendation, featuring Extraction, I touched briefly upon a point that action heroes had become a thing of the past and decided to explore it in this week’s Side Notes.…
Recommendation: Extraction

April 16, 2025

Remember those wonderful days of yore when action movies were unapologetically violent with morally compromised, jaded, but ultimately honourable men? And I mean real men, hard bastards that could take an arrow, a bullet, a knife to the gut but persevere, bloody and broken, with an iron will. Cinematic icons with cool names like Indiana…