Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited follow-up to his Academy Award-winning film Parasite and his first English-language film since Okja. Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs up for a colonisation expedition to the planet Nifheim to avoid a violent loan shark. The only job he can get is being an expendable, someone who does dangerous jobs and when he […]
Author: Kieran Freemantle
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Review
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is the eighteenth feature-length film in the Dragon Ball series. The extended cut was recently re-released in cinemas. Goku (Sean Schemmel) has defeated many powerful enemies and opponents. However, his victories gain the attention of Beerus, the God of Destruction (Jason Douglas) and he seeks a prophesised Super Saiyan […]
Attack on Titan: The Last Attack Review
Attack on Titan is one of the popular anime series. It’s a pop culture phenomenon and the series has been popular beyond anime fandom. The series finale has been adapted into an epic film with Attack on Titan: The Last Attack. The Titans have formed a herd and are being led by a former Survey […]
Exposing Fields Data Recovery
The business of data recovery is a Wild West, at least within the UK. They are a patchwork of sole traders and independent businesses and access to a good company is geography dependant. I have a broken hard drive that has many years of photographs and music, which has led me down a path I […]
One of Them Days Review
We all have had ‘one of them days.’ For some people, those days can be worse than for others. Two friends and roommates experience a particularly bad day in a Los Angeles-set buddy comedy. Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) have been friends and roommates for seven years. Dreux is about to have the job interview […]
License to Be Killed: James Bond at Amazon
The James Bond franchise has experienced a seismic change with the announcement that Barbara Broccoli has given up creative control to Amazon. The franchise has gone from being a personal legacy for the Broccolis to being a part of a corporate entity. The news has been received badly by Bond fans, including myself. There are […]
Captain America: Brave New World Review
Captain America enters a brave new world with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) taking on the mantle of the shield-wielding hero. Sam Wilson operates as Captain America for the American government, partaking in clandestine missions. Sam stops a black market deal in Oaxaca, Mexico, which results in him saving an international treaty and the hero getting […]
The Monkey Review
The Monkey is a darkly comic offering from the pantheon of Stephen King adaptations. This film is the follow-up of Osgood Perkins’ sleeper hit, Longlegs. In 1999 twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn (Christian Convery/Theo James) find a toy monkey amongst their father’s possessions. When the boys use The Monkey people they know die and […]
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Review
Bridget Jones returns for a fourth film with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. This time the romcom icon deals with motherhood and widowhood after the loss of her beloved Mr. Darcy. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) has been a widow for four years after her husband (Colin Firth) died on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. She […]
Britflix: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones is a rom-com icon and a piece of British pop culture. She has appeared in a series of novels and seeing that a fourth film is out, now is a good time to check out the film that started it all. Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is a 32-year-old singleton living in London. After […]