
Mike has written over 2,100 essays, critiques and capsule reviews of popular films since 2006.
The following reviews were published by the Observer Local News, 2012-2013:
- Warm Bodies: ‘Braiiins’: A love story
- Skyfall: James Bond, resurrected
- Zero Dark Thirty: A war on terror, and uncertainty
- Lincoln a love letter to America
- Mama knows best?
- Side Effects: Pick your poison
- High style, high cost of doing business in Killing Them Softly
- The Last Exorcism Part II – Hopefully the last Last Exorcism
- Texas Chainsaw 3D: Horror franchising: When to kill a killer
- Practice makes predictable in Playing for Keeps
- The Hobbit: Big looks, small ideas
- Oblivion: The end of the world never looks so shiny
- Dark Skies builds creepy tension before it collapses
- 42 a capable but unsurprising biopic