Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a Hong Kong action crime film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as a part of their Out of Competition Midnight Screenings. Chan Lok-kwan (Raymond Lam) is a refugee who arrived in 1980s Hong Kong. After being screwed over by the Triads, Lok finds refuge in the infamous […]
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Spoiler-Filled Review
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is an action-adventure sci-fi animated series created by Dave Filoni. He is the creator of Star Wars Resistance and Star Wars Rebels, and supervising director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Tales. For over eight years, Filoni has headed Lucasfilm Animation, which has produced all Star Wars-related animated series […]
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review
It has been nine years since George Miller reintroduced audiences to the world of Mad Max with Mad Max: Fury Road. Now he has made a prequel focusing on Furiosa and has Anya Taylor-Joy in the lead role. In the future Australia becomes an eradicated wasteland with the only area that has fresh water and plant life being The Green Place of […]
Doctor Who – 73 Yards Review
One of the hallmarks of a great episode of TV is that it can take you through a gamut of emotions throughout its journey to the end. And that’s precisely what “73 Yards” did, as we walked along with Ruby as she not only attempted to solve the question of just who the woman following […]
The Garfield Movie Review
The loveable ginger cat Garfield makes his third appearance in a theatrical film. This reboot sees Garfield move back into the field of animation and sees an all-star voice cast in a heist adventure. As a kitten Garfield (Chris Pratt) was abandoned by his father, Vic (Samuel L. Jackson). Luckily he adopted Jon Arbuckle (Nicholas […]
Cherry Magic! Spoiler-Filled Review
Cherry Magic!, also known as Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, is a comedic boy’s love series, adapted from a manga of the same name by Yuu Toyota. There were previously TV drama and film adaptations. The anime is directed by Yoshiko Okuda and written by Tomoko Konparu. Tomoki Hasegawa […]
Doctor Who – Boom Review
Well, that was quite the episode of Doctor Who. We got a treatise on the horrors of unchecked capitalism (timely, as always), a quick swipe toward militant religiosity (although having the military consist of various Anglican clerics of differing ranks didn’t really have enough time to gel into a statement of sorts – although, you […]
The Big Cigar Review
About midway through the second episode of The Big Cigar, the latest AppleTV+ series, I found myself wondering just why this particular story hadn’t been made into a movie instead of an over-long and wholly unnecessary six-episode limited series. And when I dug a little bit, I discovered that in fact, it was originally optioned […]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Review
20th Century Studios have returned to the Planet of the Apes with a fourth entry in the reboot series and the tenth film overall in the franchise. This film shows how ape society has developed since the fall of man. Generations after the death of Caesar ape society flourished and formed many different cultures and […]
IF Review
IF is a family film that shows a young girl navigating the hidden world of Imaginary Friends in New York City. Bea (Cailey Fleming) is a 12-year-old girl who moves into her grandmother’s (Fiona Shaw) apartment as her father (John Krasinski) is taken into hospital. Whilst living at her grandmother’s, Bea comes across some strange creatures […]