Star power alone can’t push this slow moving spaceship. An ark of five thousand stasis-sleeping passengers, on a trip to a new planet to call home, suffers from damage to its systems, waking two people while there’s still ninety years of travel remaining. They find the task of getting to know each other complicated with saving…
Tag: drama
Review: Swiss Army Man
Apparently I am watching all the weird films I missed this year! Hank is marooned on an island after his boat is caught in a storm and moments before he is about to take his own life he sees a body on the beach. Through sheer determination to have a friend and a lot of…
Review: Anomalisa
What an incredibly moving, compelling and strange experience this was. Michael Stone is a writer successful in the field of retail and sales but is suffering from a crippling sense of apathy and loneliness in what to him is an incredibly mundane existence. But could all of that be about to change when he visits…
Review: The Lobster
What a bizarre experience, this might take some time to unpack! Set in a dystopian future, single people are rounded up to live in a hotel with the goal of finding a partner within forty-five days. If they fail, they are turned into an animal. Those single people are also tasked to hunt down and…
Review: Sully
Probably one of the most concise and honestly made films I’ve seen this year since Spotlight. Based off the true events from January 2009, Sully follows the frightening and dramatic events of an airliner forced to land on the Hudson River in America, and the following investigation of its pilot Chesley Sullenberger. Directed by Clint…
Review: The Girl on the Train
A taut, grim thriller with plenty of twists and turns and great characters. An alcoholic ex-wife takes a train ride daily that passes by her old house. When she sees something unusual happening in one of the next door houses during one particular trip, she starts to investigate. But when secrets and relationships become entangled,…
Triple Review: The Magnificent Seven
We got ourselves a little Mexican Standoff! This is a Remake Rumble Review with a difference. While some are quick off the mark to argue the 2016’s Magnificent Seven as a worthy remake, touting their knowledge that the original was a remake too (le gasp!) I am happy to say that I had seen both…
Review: Aftermath (2012)
Well that was depressing. The wars in the middle east trigger a nuclear catastrophe, and survivors find themselves trapped in a basement in Texas after their country was hit by multiple nuclear strikes. Recommended by a fan of Cinema Cocoa, I had zero expectations and no knowledge of the film. Limited release in 2012, the…
Review: War Dogs
From director Todd Phillips, War Dogs is surprisingly serious in tone. Based off true events War Dogs follows David, a twenty-something American who has no idea what to do with his life. That is until he teams up with his eccentric school friend Erhaim and his business of selling military hardware to the US military….
Review: Capote
Finally got around to watching this, possibly the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s greatest performance. One of the greatest writers in 1950s America decides that his best novel would be a biography following the hideous murder of an entire family by two men, and the trial that came after. What he doesn’t expect, in his overconfidence,…