After mankind inadvertently brings the Great War to the shores of Themyscira, Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) ventures to the front lines of WWI to save humanity from itself. With Wonder Woman, Warner Bros and DC Comics simply could not afford to fail. After Man of Steel – a Superman story I thought worth exploring –… Continue reading Wonder Woman: Flawed but triumphant
Vaulted forward by a powerhouse performance by Amy Adams, and supplemented by journeymen Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker and Michael Stuhlbarg, Arrival dares to conclude on a sombre and thinker’s note. It is a film that shuns the crescendo and aims for the silence … a film that preaches about language but finds its most telling… Continue reading Arrival Review: sci-fi at its best
Logan is filling. It’s funny, sombre, saddening, brutally gory, beautiful throughout and utterly enjoyable. It is the crescendo Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine deserves to leave on but still positions itself as a continuation of the, at times frustrating, X-Men continuity. Let’s get this out of the way to begin with. Lifelong Wolverine fans, those that collected… Continue reading Logan Review: Finally, Wolverine
The Lego Batman movie is an adult look at lifelong loneliness, family and selflessness but also a film bursting with starburst-like colour and giddiness. It can seem like, with the current Hollywood machine churning out franchises and intellectual properties without a moment’s notice, the Batman story has been overdone. Even people who hate movies, there… Continue reading The Lego Batman Movie Review: two for two
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – which still remains the stupidest and most ham-fisted way to set the anthology films apart – is the prequel Star Wars fans have been waiting for. The film does have some glaring issues but they are faint in comparison to what is otherwise a pulsating prequel. It starts… Continue reading Rogue One Spoilers Review: pulsating prequel
Donald Drumpf is the President of the United States of America. Whilst that top line might read like the scroll spearheading a big budgeted dystopian epic akin to The Hunger Games or Logan’s Run, the truth is far more frightening. His policy’s range from building a wall between America and Mexico, pulling out of all… Continue reading Donald Drumpf’s worst policy: fast-forwarding films
There is a worrying trend, in modern film and television, to skive off creating in a substantially threatening villain. More often than not, villains are written as secondary characters rather than one on equal fitting with the hero. As a result, the central conflict between the warring forces falls on deaf ears and appears wholeheartedly… Continue reading The worrying trend of defensive comedy undermining villains
Star Trek Beyond, the third entry in the rebooted sci-fi franchise, is good clean sci-fi that draws from Star Trek’s meaningful television roots whilst splashing the screen with sweeping blockbuster action and enjoyable cast chemistry. After accepting a five-year long mission into deep space, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and the crew of the… Continue reading Star Trek Beyond Review: clean sci-fi
Doctor Strange is the most visually interesting and rewarding Marvel Studios movie to date. It is brimming with psychedelic and challenging frames and accented with the usual brand of callback humour but it’s need to fit the Marvel formula and a lacklustre conflict stop it from being one of the best in the genre. After… Continue reading Doctor Strange Review: stunning and fascinating yet generic
When Marvel announced that Tilda Swinton, a white actress, would be filling the role of The Ancient One, typically an old Asian man, in Doctor Strange, the casting rightfully experienced backlash. C. Robert Cargill, co-writer on Doctor Stranger, argued that the Ancient One’s race was changed from Tibetan because the film needed to appeal to… Continue reading Marvel needs to STOP LYING about Doctor Strange’s ANCIENT ONE
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