Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Rating: ½
Jan 20, 2012Singing Chipmunks
It may say how doomed the Western world is that people have paid to watch three films so far all centred around these annoyingly cutsie helium-voiced chipmunks. This is marginally less annoying that the preceding two

Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)

Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 15, 2015Comic-Book Super-Villain Team-Up/Animation
This is more of a Suicide Squad than a Batman film. Based on the popular Arkham videogames, this a Justice League-type adventure but with super-villains where the emphasis is on dark humor and gleeful mayhem

Suburban Gothic (2014)

Suburban Gothic (2014)
Rating: ★★
Oct 27, 2014Middle-Class Satire/Haunting
From the director of Excision, another film that satirically digs its claws into middle-class values but there is the feeling we have seen all of this before and the film fails to provide anything funny. Added to this is a barely scary ghost plot the film occasionally remembers to get back to

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
Rating:
Apr 4, 2016Singing Chipmunks
The end of Western civilisation is surely upon us that studios have devoted multi-million dollar resources to making four of these films and that audiences flock to them despite universally terribly reviews. Ok so maybe I hated this one marginally less than the preceding three