Denis Villeneuve and his all-star cast return to the desert planet of Arrakis, with the second part of his adaptation of Dune. The Harkonnens have taken over Arrakis and House Atreides has fallen. However, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) survived the attack and joined the Fremen in the depths […]
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Wonka Review
Willy Wonka is probably Roald Dahl’s most recognisable character, appearing in two novels, two adaptations of Charlie of the Chocolate Factory, and the Gene Wilder version being lovingly parodied in numerous American shows. The team behind the Paddington Movies aims to make a prequel about Willy Wonka and how he became the famous chocolatier. Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) arrives in […]
Bones and All Review
Based on a novel by Camille DeAngelis, Bones and All is a film that mixed horror, romance, a road movie, and a coming-of-age story. It was a film that attempts to tackle a lot. Marin Yearly (Taylor Russell) is an 18-year-old high schooler who has an overprotective dad (André Holland). One night Marin sneaks out […]
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 […]
The French Dispatch Review
Wes Anderson is a subgenre unto himself. From Rushmore to Moonrise Kingdom, the quirky auteur’s films are so uniformly meticulous and bizarre that they could not be mistaken for anyone else’s work. Regardless of the individual movie’s specific genre or plot, Anderson has consistently brought the same style and tone to all his films. His […]
Dune: Part One Review
Dune, the complex, winding novel from Frank Herbert, isn’t the easiest read. Its timeline can become twisted, its plot is at times quite dense, the scale and scope of the epic massive and at times wholly unwieldy, and it takes a good bit of time for the real narrative arc to reveal itself, before things […]
The King Review
The King is the most recent film that retells to the story of Henry V and his 1415 campaign in France. It comes across as the English version of Braveheart. Prince Henry (Timothée Chalament), or Hal to his friends, is the reluctant heir to the English throne. He is a disappointment to his father (Ben […]
Little Women Review
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is seen as a classic piece of American literature and it has been adapted numerous times. Greta Gerwig’s all-star version is the eighth cinematic iteration. Josephine “Jo” March (Saoirse Ronan) is an aspiring writer living in New York City after the Civil War. When Jo receives a letter stating that her younger sister is […]