So much quality here, so why does it leave such an empty impression? In the distant future, people want off Earth. Mickey is wanting freedom as well, for reasons, and enlists as an Expendable. He didn’t read the fine print, though, and finds himself as a human canary; experimented on until death in the depths…
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Review: Captain America: Brave New World
An MCU paint-by-numbers. It is perfectly serviceable, but doesn’t have any real punch. Sam Wilson, aka Captain America, finds an old friend being tried for attempted assassination of the American President. But upon investigating this, he finds a darker secret underneath. It isn’t uncommon knowledge that Captain America: Brave New World was in development hell…
Review: Companion
Yep, this is very much my frequency of movie. Five friends take a trip to a countryside house. But for Josh, Iris, Kat, Eli, and Patrick, not everything is as it seems… Companion is arguably a career first feature film by writer/director Drew Hancock. Previously having worked on television, shorts, and Tenacious D videos, his…
Review: Wolf Man
It does have heart and conviction, but is a little too shallow. When husband and father Blake learns of his own father’s death, he takes his family to his woodland home to settle affairs. However, things quickly go wrong as something in the woods is hunting them. Wolf Man comes to us as the second…
Review: A Complete Unknown
Another musician biopic. This one about beginnings and endings. A young man arrives in New York City in the 1960s to meet his musical heroes. His journey is influenced and moulded by them, but this prodigy cannot be contained for long. A quick recovery from director James Mangold (Ford Vs Ferrari, Logan) since the disastrous…
Review: Better Man
Intentionally, the film is far more affecting that appearances might suggest. A dramatization following the personal story of British pop singer Robbie Williams, his meteoric highs and crashing lows. Directed by Michael Gracey (2017’s The Greatest Showman) and starring Kate Mulvany, Raechelle Banno, Steve Pemberton, and of course… Robbie Williams, the film turned heads for…
Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
In a rare turn of fate, the third in a film series is the best one? Sonic, a high speed creature from another world, has a new adversary: Shadow. But even with his friends, he might need to make an unlikely alliance to thwart this new foe. Director Jeff Fowler has had exclusivity of the…
Review: Nosferatu
Remakes of classic movies never looked this good before. In 1800s Germany, a woman is haunted by visions, while her husband travels to distant lands to settle a housing transaction. However, these events will bring a terrible plague upon them and the country… The boom of horror movies continues. Director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, VVitch,…
Best and Worst of 2024
2024 has been a real rollercoaster of movie quality. Sometimes it swings one way or the other, but this time it has been fairly samey with big swings and big misses. For every Monkey Man there was a Borderlands. The samey-ness came from Hollywood just churning out unnecessary stuff. A sequel to Beetlejuice? A sequel…
Review: Wicked
You know what…? It was quite fun. Before Dorothy fell from the sky and into the land of Oz, two aspiring witches of very different backgrounds meet. A conspiracy lurks as well, but can they settling their differences and discover what is wrong in the wonderful world? Wicked has quite the history. Unfortunately I personally…