Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a zany time travel comedy from Gore Verbinski, making his first film in 10 years. In a diner in Los Angeles, a man (Sam Rockwell) enters, claiming he’s from the future and needs volunteers to help him save the world. He leads a gang of six different people […]
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Avatar: Fire and Ash Review
The financial juggernaut that is the Avatar series film returns for a third film and continues the conflict between the Na’vi and RDA, and Jake Sully and Quaritch. The Scully family are reunited after the events of Avatar: The Way of Water, but is suffering from grief after the death of their oldest son. The […]
In Defence of Avatar
Avatar is the highest-grossing film of all, with a worldwide gross of $2.9 billion. It was a cultural phenomenon back in 2009/2010. Yet it is a film that had many detractors and was dismissed as a “Dancing with Smurfs” and “Ferngully in Space.” Whilst I have been critical of Avatar: The Way of Water, the […]
Predator: Badlands Review
The Predator franchise has endured for nearly 40 years. The alien hunters finally get a chance to lead a film with Predator: Badlands. Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is a young Yautja runt who is dismissed by his father, Njohrr (Reuben de Jong), as being too weak to join the clan. Njohrr demands his other son, Kwei […]
The Long Walk Review
The Long Walk is a retro-dystopian film based on a Stephen King novel, which he wrote under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. The United States has suffered war, military dictatorship, and economic depression. This has led the government to introduce an annual competition where a boy from each state must compete in “The Long Walk.” The […]
Tron: Ares Review
The Tron series has returned for a third entry. This time, elements of the Grid enter the real world and get used in a battle for corporate supremacy. Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) and his company, Dillinger Systems, have developed a system that can bring creations from the Grid into the real world. He attempts to pitch his […]
Jurassic World Rebirth Review
After a three-year break, the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise has rebirthed itself with a soft reboot, with old and new franchise DNA for a standalone adventure. The dinosaurs are dying out, unable to survive in a modern climate. The few that are alive survive on small islands across the equator, and they have been made […]
M3GAN 2.0 Review
M3GAN was a hit in 2023, making $181 million from a $12 million and a sequel was quickly greenlit. M3GAN 2.0 sees the series move from self-aware horror-comedy to a sci-fi action comedy. Two years after the events of the first film, Gemma Forrester (Allison Williams) has become an advocate for regulating AI and limiting […]
Elio Review
Pixar had many great films that have tugged at audiences’ heartstrings. The studio aims to pull off that trick again with the sci-fi feature, Elio. Elio Solís (Yonas Kibreab) is a lonely young boy whose parents died and who now lives with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña). He becomes obsessed with extraterrestrials and seeks to […]
Mickey 17 Review
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 […]










