Movie Editor's Blog

Wanna know how to survive the apocalypse? Get a job.

If Hollywood’s morbid fascination with the end of the world has taught us one thing, it’s that being ordinary helps your chances.

Tom Cruise’s post-apocalyptic repair man in ‘Oblivion’, out this week, now joins Bruce Willis’ ‘Armageddon’ oil rigger, John Cusack’s ‘2012’ limo driver and Kevin Costner’s postman in, well, ‘The Postman’, on the list of blue-collar folk who survived disaster movie Doomsdays.

We set our Joe on the case to investigate the trend, and whilst he’s at it, maybe get a job too…

In the world of movie spin-offs, anything’s fair game. Even your childhood.

In ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ (that’s Action Man to us Brits), out this week, classic action figures are morphed into actual people. Like Bruce Willis, and The Rock.

Does exactly what it says on the tin? Not really.

So, in this week’s Home Movies, our Joe investigates the toy spin-off trend, to find out just why Hollywood wants to get its hand on your childhood.

And, if Transformers and Battleships can do it, why not Monopoly? Or even KerPlunk?

Now there’s an idea…