If this was released 15 years ago, opinions would be very different. Young Jaime Reyes returns from university to find his family’s situation in disarray. When he is looking for work to save the family home, an alien artefact called The Scarab falls into his possession and changes his life forever. Directed by relative newcomer…
Review: Gran Turismo
It lacks a certain something, but is still a surprising true story! Nissan motorsports joins forces with Sony PlayStation’s Gran Turismo developer to train gamers into real race car drivers. Jann Mardenborough is one such gamer, but does he have enough to turn dreams into reality? Gran Turismo is an unusual video game “adaptation”, in…
Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem
If Tom Cruise got rolled over by the Barbenheimer phenomenon, the heroes in half-shells never stood a chance. The shunned, sewer-dwelling, mutant turtles must save New York City and the humans that detest them from other mutants born of the same ooze that created them. It seems like every seven years or so, a Teenage…
Review: Barbie
Who knew that a movie about Barbie would not only draw so much attention and discussion, but also be quite good?? Barbieland, a parallel existence to our own, is thrown into turmoil as Classic Barbie begins to experience thoughts contradicting her fantastic plastic existence. Thoughts of death and despair. This takes her and her friend…
Review: Oppenheimer
Don’t ask director Christopher Nolan how a car works. You will get an answer, but it will probably be elaborate and overcomplicated. As Nazi Germany invades Poland, the United States turn to any solution to end the war. They turn to a theoretical physicist named Robert Oppenheimer, and so begins a secret arms race to…
Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One
Mission: Impossible continues to impress in its penultimate entry. Ethan Hunt and his crew are still seen as rogues who get the job done. But when an algorithmic AI goes missing and appears to be a threat to global digital security, they might be on their most difficult mission yet. Directed and co-written by Christopher…
Review: Elemental
Elements mix into a lukewarm reaction in Pixar’s latest. In a city where elements live together, fire is the newest addition. Ember, a daughter of a traditionalist family, goes off on an adventure with a water guy named Wade. Together, they hope to save Ember’s father’s shop. Elemental has been quietly flopping at the box…
Review: Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny
What was the point of this exactly? In the tapestry of Indiana Jones, this one leaves you bemused. A lost, lonely and befuddled Doctor Henry Jones hears the call to adventure once again when his goddaughter Helena reappears into his life, seeking the antikythera device, aka Archimedes’ Dial. However, dark forces from his past also…
Review: Asteroid City
It is always nice to experience a director’s distinct style, even when the film is quite bonkers. Asteroid City is a play written about a widower and his family travelling to an isolated town in the desert to take part in a science stargazing event. But events certainly take a turn for the weird. Directed…
Review: The Flash
And with that, the DCEU as we know it crashes into a chaotic, messy grave. Barry Allen, aka The Flash, has never gotten over the loss of his mother and his father’s false conviction of her murder. Despite warnings, he uses speedforce to time travel and save her. Unfortunately, the warnings were warranted, as Barry…