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…
Review: Transformers – Rise of the Beasts
The Transformers movie franchise really had the quietest renaissance ever, didn’t it? It is an actual shame no one really cares. Following, loosely, after 2018’s prequel Bumblebee, the Autobots are stuck on Earth and in hiding. But when an ancient technological device is recovered by a museum, it could be their ticket back to their…
Review: Spider-Man – Across the Spider-Verse
When the dial is already at eleven, it is going to break if you push it further. Following the events of Into The Spider-Verse, we follow both Miles Morales and Gwen Stacey in their own universes, trying to cope with their own lonely vigils of their cities. However, the Spider-Society, formed over thousands of universes,…
Review: Hypnotic
This is definitely a movie that thinks its smarter than it actually is. Danny Rourke, a cop whose daughter mysteriously vanished without a trace, finds clues to her whereabouts when a bizarre bank heist occurs. But as the strangeness unfolds, his life is turned upside down. Directed and co-written by Robert Rodriguez (a man with…
Review: M3GAN
Haunted doll movie is self-aware, and in more ways than one! A roboticist becomes the legal guardian of her niece at the same time she breaks new ground in robot technology: M3GAN. A robot designed to be part of the family… While Insidious and The Conjuring director James Wan has his name on it, he…
Review: Air
It certainly would take Amazon Studios to fund a movie about a product. Set in 1984, sports brand Nike is struggling against its competitors, but one of their employees wants to make a deal with rising Basketball star Michael Jordan. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, with Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, and Chris…
Review: Sisu
A gory, grisly action movie straight from a time when movies were simpler! In Finland at the tail end of World War 2, a war veteran goes on a rampage against a band of Nazis. Directed by Jalmari Helander, who you may or may not know from 2014’s Big Game starring Samuel L. Jackson as…