BURTON REVIEWS (and news)

School’s ended and there’s only one thing on your mind. You run out of your class to your parents. You pull on their hands, shirts, legs, begging for them to get you home as quick as possible, because you know it’s almost time. You’re in your car, bouncing off the bumper seat with excitement as you near home. You make it. Your mum begins to slowly open the car door. As soon as you see a you-shaped gap you make a break for it. You zoom to the house, leap through the front door and drop your school bag at the bottom of the stairs. You sit down before the almighty TV, turn it on, and those epic cords ring through the front room, and inside, you know what time it is, and you’re ready. It’s mother-loving Morphing-Time! (Imager sourced from http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Rangers_(2017 ))   Power Rangers holds a special place in my heart, starting at a very young age and finally deciding to quit the obsession way too long after I should have, I absorbed about five ge...

(Image sourced from https://twitter.com/saga_nerd/status/768194734418497537 ) The Facts: This past Thursday Netflix released a trailer for one of its new upcoming original movies. Big whoop right, Netflix does that all the time, right. Well when the trailer is for a highly anticipated adaptation of one of the biggest and most beloved anime classics of all time, Death Note, then yeah, probably gonna be a whoop. Starring Nat Wolff (Paper Towns) as the morally ambiguous Light Turner, Margaret Qualley (the leftovers) as love interest Mia Sutton, Keith Stanfield (Get Out) as nemesis L, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as Ryuk one of the gods of death , and being directed by the Blair Witch Projects Adam Wingard. The trailer is currently sitting at 7,310,711 views on Netflix’s official US and Canada YouTube channel, with 132,822 likes and 54,367 dislikes. (Image sourced from https://moviepilot.com/p/death-note-2017-trailer-netflix-remake-anime/4231202 ) For any of the uniniti...

(Image sourced from http://www.ibtimes.co.in/iron-fist-trailer-five-things-you-learn-about-finn-jones-new-netflix-marvel-show-video-715263 ) With success, after success, after success; it seemed that Marvel could do no wrong and so fans rejoiced in a never ending fountain fresh tomatoes and nerdgasms. That was until the early reviews of Marvel’s 4 th Netflix show, Iron Fist, were released to the internets and the early reports weren’t looking good at all, with sites across the web heralding the fast approach of Marvel’s first flat out failure. So, has Marvel’s hot streak of victories been distinguished? Or are critics abit too blood thirsty for the seemingly invincible Marvel’s downfall? Only 13 hours of nonstop binging will tell, lucky for you lot, that is exactly what I did. Oh my butt’s sore. (Video sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSPda7xQ3s ) The story of Iron Fist follows the return of the once thought dead Danny Rand (Finn Jones, Game of Thrones). A...

(Gif sourced from http://giphy.com/gifs/love-netflix-gillian-jacobs-Onqb49GApAFig )   Love, it’s complicated. Human Beings, that’s a whole other kettle of fish. So when Netflix debuted a trailer about an original series that would charmingly explore both with a romantic indie film type atmosphere, ala 500 Days of Summer, with big names such as the romantic comedy legend Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) also attached to the project, I was a lot more than interested. And last year’s season 1 of Love started the show off to a very strong start, chronicling the meeting and unexpected attraction between the show’s leads as their relationship spiralled more and more down the hole of complication. With season 2 introducing a logical but still interesting dynamic shift in the twos relationship as they make their way up the relationship ladder, will the show still retain its loveable charm, or like a lot of relationships, loose the spark that made the beginning so great. (Video sourced fro...

(Image sourced from http://www.foxmovies.com/movies/logan )   Before Robert Downey Jr. just was Ironman, before Chris Hemsworth embodied Thor and Chris Evans became the symbol of the American way as Captain America, there was a man who became so absorbed into his character that I bet when I mention the name Wolverine that it is his face that pops into your head instead of an iconic panel from Wolverine’s long fictional past or his gruff, all too 90s look in the animated series. Of course I am talking about Hugh Jackman, who just is the Wolverine, Logan. And with his almost two decade run as the character coming to a tearful end, is the conqueror of nerd’s hearts across the world going to get the farewell he deserves, or another X Men Origins: Wolverine sized mess. No on puts Deadpool in the corner with a sewed mouth, no one. (Video Sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viputbvuTJ0&list=PLdJC4EBLm-xVrRk-RcQ03H00hXSLIAvKU ) The story takes place in a dark and...

(Image sourced from http://screenrant.com/john-wick-2-keanu-reeves-training-video/ )   With DVD shelves full of by-the-numbers action films that are 2/3 rds boring exposition and 1/3 rd sub-par fighting, the action movie genre needed waking back up and reminding of how awesome it can be.   And that’s exactly what it got in 2014 with the glass of ice cold water thrown at the genre to shock it’s systems back into overdrive being in the form of John Wick, an unassuming film that had the goofy concept of killing a whole Russian mob over the death of a dog, but the film knew exactly what it wanted to be and it excelled at it with ferocious action, a perfect lead in Keanu Reeves, and an extremely cool world for Mr. Reeves to kick, duck, and shotgun-boom his way through. But now with such high expectations on this action-movie’s shoulders, will it buckle under the weight of its unexpected success, or do what it does best, blow our minds with a perfect pistol shot. (Video s...

(Image sourced from http://www.hercampus.com/school/ucf/split-and-stigma-shyamalans-new-controversial-movie-advocates-mental-health ) After just over a decade of awful box office and critical bombs such as the painful The Last Airbender in 2010 and the mind numbingly boring After Earth in 2013, the release of The Visit in 2015 seemed to declare M. Night Shyamalan’s return to actually well-crafted and enjoyable film making as he scaled back the scope of his films to bring a more relatable and engrossing edge to his films that seemed lacking in the past decade of his filmography. Now, with the release of Split, will M. Night be able to remain on this re-ascension to greatness, or falter once again?   The story of Split sees three teenage girls: the outcast with obvious deep emotional issues, Anya Taylor-Joy as Cass Cooke, the popular girl who has never had to worry about anything in her life before, Haley Lu Richardson Claire Benoit, and her best friend, Jessica Sula as ...