Audiences are in a golden age of video game adaptations with The Super Mario Bros Movie pleasing fans, whilst The Last of Us and Fallout were critical hits on TV. Borderlands shows that video game adaptations are still tricky beasts to tame. Pandora is a planet with a legendary vault that was created by an […]
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Indiana Jones Retrospective: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
After a 19-year break, Indiana Jones returned with Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It’s a film where the fan reaction can charitably be called mixed. In 1957 Indiana Jones has been abducted by Soviet agents and forced to infiltrate a secret American government base in Nevada. This leads to Indy getting accused of […]
Tár Review
Tár is an American-German film by Little Children director Todd Field. It is considered one of the biggest contenders during this awards season. Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is a highly accomplished composer and the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. She is about to record a live performance which could lead her to be considered one of […]
Nightmare Alley (2021) Review
Nightmare Alley is the first film made by Guillermo del Toro since winning Academy Awards for his monster romance The Shape of Water. This time he has made a neo-noir mystery involving people faking that they have mystical powers. In 1939 Stanton “Stan” Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) leaves his home and takes a job in a travelling […]
Don’t Look Up Review
And the award for Most Cynical Movie of 2021 goes to… Don’t Look Up is the latest genre-defying dark comedy from the very specific mind of Writer/Director Adam McKay. The film paints a bleak portrait of humanity through its satire, reveling in the worst of our impulses with its tale of scientific denial, greed, and […]
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Review
How to Train Your Dragon has been one of the Dreamworks most successful franchises – a fantasy series that strikes the right balance between action-adventure, comedy, and genuine heart. The studio has concluded their trilogy with How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Set a year after the events of How to Train Your Dragon 2 Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) have been fighting other […]
The House With a Clock in Its Walls Review
From the director of violent horror films like Hostel and The Green Inferno comes something completely unexpected – a charming fantasy film that the whole family can enjoy. In 1955 Lewis Barnavelt (Owen Vaccaro) is a 10-year-old who has lost his parents in a car accident and moves in with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) in New Zebedee, Michigan. Lewis […]