Simon Cocks

Simon Cocks

London-based film and TV addict. Writing mostly appears at television-addiction.com, but also a contributing writer for TwitchFilm and CultBox...

Film Review

THE MARTIAN (2015)

[usr 5.0] If you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of...

Film Review

EVEREST (2015)

[usr 4.0] When a film’s based on a true story, it often means it’s telling such an incredible story that it’s hard to believe...

Film Review

AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)

[usr 3.5] Weird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times....

Film Review

NO ESCAPE (2015)

[usr 2.0] Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there...

Film Review

HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)

[usr 2.0] There’s no real reason why films based on video games shouldn’t work. However, there can also be no denying that the vast...

TV Review

BANSHEE – Season Three

[usr 4.5] Banshee simply isn’t a show that could drag on for years and years. Its premise doesn’t really allow for it, and the...

Film Review

PIXELS (2015)

[usr 1.0] Laziness is how we get films like Pixels. The desperately sad lack of commitment on display here is astounding, as Adam Sandler...

Film Review

FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)

[usr 2.5] There’s no way to argue otherwise; the main reason a Fantastic Four reboot’s been made is so the rights can stay with 20th Century Fox....

Film Review

ANT-MAN (2015)

[usr 4.0] Ant-Man, the newest film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a little rougher around the edges than some of the studio’s recent...

ant-man (2015)
Film Review

KNOCK KNOCK (2015)

[usr 3.0] With Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out...

Film Review

TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)

[usr 2.5] Fairly early into Terminator Genisys, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pops utters this line to Emilia Clarke’s Sarah Connor: “This is a meaningless gesture. To...