Shadow Wave CHERUB Book Review

CHERUB: Shadow Wave
RRP: £12:99
Type: Hardback
Pages: 352 pg
Genre: Children/Teenage Fiction +12
Shadow Wave
The twelfth book in the major CHERUB series, Robert Muchamore has hammed it up at the end of Brigand's M.C, the eleventh book. With a quite brief, of what this book lies in stall. Over all, I don't think Muchamore ever looked back at this text and thought, 'yes, this is what I'm going to do.' Because he doesn't give half of what he promised. The first four or five chapters shows James Adams, the star character watching football and attending a certain wedding. Then it's a flashback to the leftover wreckage of a tsunami and the lead character is Kyle. Then it's Jame's mission to protect Tan Abdullah and his wife and kids on their trip to London! It's an interesting book with a great ending!

4/5

The Other Guys Review

Disappointing.....The Other Guys

As much as the reviews said I was sadly disappointed by this film. The Guardian said: "It was like a 107-minute comedy sketch." At times I agreed at others I didn't. I entered Cineworld thinking, I'm going to enjoy this. The plot was fairly good until a quarter of the way through when it went into a load of financial rubbish and suicides. Will Ferrell, as much as everyone loves a funny man, he failed to give the same performance as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (coincidentally is by the same director). Mark Wahlberg, though I have seen little of his films (The Lovely Bones and Date Night) produced the most comedy out of the duo and I thought the "relationship" between him and Sheila (Eva Mendes), Ferrell's on-screen wife. Detective Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Detective Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) are the 'other guys', the backbenchers who applaud the two biggest New York cops, (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson). Until one day they are brought into a large financial scam involving David Ershon (Steve Coogan). They have to stand up and be heroes despite the humorous laughs from their colleagues and boss (Rob Riggle, Damon Waynes. Jr, Michael Keaton) and their hilarious comments about Gamble's Prius car.


3/5

The Sorceror's Apprentice Review

Here's Nicky........The Sorceror's Apprentice

With a dash of Harry Potter and a tiny bit of the BBC's TV series Merlin, The Sorceror's Apprentice is pretty good for a cheesy kid's movie about magic with Nicolas Cage in it. It stars, the slightly irritating and annoying Jay Baruchel whom some people will recognise his voice from Dreamwork's How To Train Your Dragon. He plays, Dave Stutler, a geeky Physics student in New York who happens, one day when he is ten years old to encounter Balthazar Blake (Cage), who was one of Merlin's three apprentices. He explains that there is a prison in which Morgana le Fay (Alice Krige) is trapped waiting to be unlocked by Horvath (Alfred Molina), another evil baddie. The prison is in the shape of a Russian doll and is called a Grimhold. There is also a lot of love chemistry going on between Dave and Becky (Palmer), a girl from the university he is teaching at. The film lacks unpredictability and you always know what is going to happen. There are a few funny jokes and even a pun on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse sketch Fantasia.


4/5

Scott Pilgram vs. The World

Beam me up, Scotty........Scott Pilgram Vs. The World

Imagine an American teen love story about a girl with an number of 'exes' and a comic book thrown into one, the thing you would get out the other end would be Scott Pilgram. This film is probably my favourite movie at the moment. It has action, violence (not that way), it has thrills. It stars Scott Pilgram (Cera), a lonely teen in Toronto, Canada, who is still getting over being dumped by Envy Adams (Brie Larson). One year later he meets Ramona Flowers (Winstead), a multi-coloured haired teen working as an Amazon.com delivery girl. He then discovers she has an extensive dating history and soon he is forced to battle, Ramona's seven evil exes. The League of Evil Exes is run by the mysterious Gideon (Jason Schwartzman), whom Ramona has a long previous relationship with. If I tell you any more it will ruin the story completely. Just look out for Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin), Scott's gay roomate.