The history of films based on video games is a torrid one. There have been many failures on a critical and financial level. 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog was considered one of the better video game adaptations and it has earned a sequel. Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) has found a way to escape the Mushroom Planet and […]
Author: Kieran Freemantle
The Novice Review
The quest for perfection is an elusive one and it serves as the subject of the indie drama The Novice. Alex Dall (Isabelle Fuhrman) is a college freshman who joins the university rowing team as a novice. Her goal is to master the sport and join the varsity team. However, her goal becomes a single-minded […]
Morbius Review
Morbius is the third entry in Sony’s Spider-man Universe. This time the studio brings the living vampire to the big screen with Jared Leto in the title role. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a genius haematologist who has a rare blood condition that requires three blood transfusions a day to live. In an attempt to find […]
The Bad Guys Review
Dreamworks’ latest film The Bad Guys is based on a graphic novel by Aaron Blabey. This animated crime caper asks the question of whether stereotypes should dictate someone’s role in society. Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) is the leader of the Bad Guys gang. After the governor, Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) makes a personal attack against the gang, Wolf […]
Ambulance Review
Ambulance is a film with a plot that can be summed up in one sentence: a couple of bank robbers hijack an ambulance after a robbery goes wrong. Michael Bay uses this concept for a smaller-scale film by his standards. Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is a veteran who’s desperate for money to pay for his […]
Umma Review
The 2010s saw the rise of elevated horror movies. These are horror films that have dramatic elements or a wider theme and have often been well-received by critics. Iris K. Shim has gone to this subgenre for her feature debut, Umma. Amanda (Sandra Oh) is a Korean American woman who lives on a farm with […]
The Nan Movie Review
The Catherine Tate Show was a sketch comedy show that propelled Catherine Tate into stardom in the 2000s. One of the most popular characters from the series was Joanie Taylor, AKA Nan, and she gets a cinematic adventure for British audiences. Joanie gets a letter from her sister, Nell (Katherine Parkinson) saying she’s dying and wants […]
X Review
X sees horror filmmaker Ti West and the acclaimed production company A24 team up for the ‘70s set slasher flick. In 1979, a small team of actors and a crew from Houston go to a farm to film a pornographic film. The team included Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), a cocaine-addicted porn star, and her producer boyfriend, […]
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Review
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a prequel to the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. This prequel shows how Yuta Okkotsu joined Jujustu High and must face a great threat towards Japan. Yuta (Kayleigh McKee) is a 16-year-old who’s embedded with the spirit of his dead childhood girlfriend, Rika Orimoto (Anairis Quiñones). When Rika kills Yuta’s high school bully […]
The Duke Review
The Duke is a comedy-drama about how one man used the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a way to enact social change in 1960s Britain. Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent) is a taxi driver in Newcastle and a political campaigner with a confrontational personality. Kempton’s campaigning ways lead to him getting imprisoned for not […]