Question: what do you get if you cross The Goonies, ET and Cloverfield? Need a clue? Well, you're reading a review about it, dummy! Yes, Super 8 is about as Spielbergian as you can get, with a small smattering of JJ Abrams thrown in. From Its 80s, small town America setting to the father-son issues; from its focus on kids setting off on a wild adventure to the "coming of age" tale it's got Spielberg written all over it. It's no surprise, then, to discover that this was produced by his Amblin Entertainment or that he was Executive Producer. It's clearly JJ Abrams' love letter to a director who has influenced his career. Meanwhile, the rampaging ...  Read the complete review

Star - Director JJ Abrahams Run Time -112 minutes Certificate - 12A Blockbusters - £2.99 per night Genre - Action/Adventure Country - USA -------------------- 'Super 8' is JJ Abrahams homage stroke tribute to Steven Spielberg, simple as, in substance, texture, oral and visual, playing magpie with the great mans works and sticking them all together to make a rather enjoyable and traditional action adventure movie for all the family, stuff that Hollywood doesn't seem to want to make anymore. JJ, the creator of the Lost TV series and the director of the last Mission Impossible and Star Trek films, admits he did just that although ...  Read the complete review

Super 8 is a 2011 Science fiction / fantasy movie written and directed by J.J Abrams and starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler. -------------------------------------- The Plot: The movie begins in the summer of 1979, at the wake for Joe Lamb's ( Joel Courtney ) mother, Louis Dainard ( Ron Eldard ) comes to the wake but is escorted out and arrested by Joe's dad, Deputy Jackson Lamb ( Kyle Chandler ), we later learn that Jackson blames Louis for her death as she was covering for a shift he didn't show up for, due to being drunk. Roll forward four months and Joe's friend Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) ...  Read the complete review

Cited as one of the summer blockbusters, Super 8 arrives with great credentials. JJ Abrams has already cut his teeth on the increasingly ludicrous, but initially promising, tv series "Lost" and has gone on to do the unthinkable - he made Star Trek appealing to the masses. A couple of years on, and he is now becoming a Hollywood name, and is joined by the great Steven Speilberg on this throwback to the 70s. Half monster movie, half children's fantasy, Super 8 takes us 30-something's on a thrilling ride back to our childhood, when kids played outside, BMX's were the toys of choice, and walkmans were a new invention. Set in the summer of 1979 (the ...  Read the complete review

Before I start, I'll make a point to explain what films Super 8 channels, therefore proving that, now and again, they do make them like they used to. This movie very much harks back to the whimsical Hollywood kid/family movies of the late 70′s and 1980′s. Super 8 aims to recapture the emotional beats of those sort of movies that you wanted to be in, the giddy adventurous heights of The Goonies, the genuine sense of friendship achieved in Rob Reiner's classic coming-of-age tale Stand By Me, and also, of course, this is a movie dedicated to the works and stylings of a one Mr. Steven Spielberg. His stamp was certainly on the likes of The Goonies, and its  Read the complete review