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)

If you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of space, surely...

Film Review

EVEREST (2015)

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 it’s actually...

Film Review

AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)

Weird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times. It’s not...

Film Review

NO ESCAPE (2015)

Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there are, of...

Film Review

HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)

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

TV Review

BANSHEE – Season Three

Banshee simply isn’t a show that could drag on for years and years. Its premise doesn’t really allow for it, and the show’s rapid...

Film Review

PIXELS (2015)

Laziness is how we get films like Pixels. The desperately sad lack of commitment on display here is astounding, as Adam Sandler and cohorts...

Film Review

FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)

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. The situation...

Film Review

ANT-MAN (2015)

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 offerings, but...

ant-man (2015)
Film Review

KNOCK KNOCK (2015)

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

Film Review

TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)

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