This higher concept rom-com actually worked for me. Good job. Joan wakes up in the afterlife to find it a hotel where souls decide how to spend their eternal life. But it isn’t an easy decision to make; her lifelong husband is here, and her first husband who died in the war… and has been…
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Review: Bugonia
Crazy diamond Lanthimos shines again. Bugonia is as weird as it is thought-provoking. Two cousins agree to kidnap a high-value pharmaceutical company CEO believing her to be an alien. Their plan: to have her confess, then contact her Emperor with demands to stop her species from destroying the Earth by systemic means. Director Yorgos Lanthimos…
Review: One Battle After Another
A modern day classic, perhaps? The explosives expert in a modern revolutionary militia finds himself and his daughter hunted by American military police. One Battle After Another is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. No, not the one who makes the symmetrical movies, nor the one who made the Resident Evil movies. This Anderson brought us…
Review: Prey (2022)
Making me a believer of the Predator series. In the 1700s, an Apache tribe finds itself at the mercy of an otherworldly hunter. Released in 2022, mere months “after” the Covid pandemic, Prey was and continues to be a Disney+ exclusive. It was never released in cinemas. The rather teasing title betrays that this film…
Review: The Legend of Ochi
What a strange, throw-back experience this was. Yuri, estranged daughter of a man possessed in fighting rare creatures called Ochi, would rather befriend the creatures. When she runs away from home, it becomes a race to protect or destroy the strange creatures. Debut director Isaiah Saxon brings us this original story The Legend of Ochi,…
Banter: So I tried ScreenX cinema
I’m back at it again. Last year I took myself to Cineworld cinemas to finally experience their 4DX format. The one that throws water in your face and shoots air at your ears (y’know, fun?) and it proved quite insightful. Did I say insightful? I should also say “resoundingly negative.” But you don’t know until…
Review: The Salt Path
Deliberately slow and meandering, but an effective story on human endurance. Based off a true story, Raynor and Moth Winn trek one of the longest countryside paths in England after losing their home and Moth’s terminal diagnosis. Produced by the BBC and directed by Marianne Elliott, adapted from the journal “The Salt Path” written by…
Review: The Killer
A neat, dark, little thriller. A professional assassin takes things into his own hands when a mistake turns his retainers against him. Directed by legendary director David Fincher, and starring Michael Fassbender, The Killer is a short and understated thriller. It would seem I am not the only one who sees huge similarities to the…
Review: Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning
And so it all comes to an end. Quite a disappointing end. Following the events from Dead Reckoning, Ethan Hunt finds himself as the only hope for planet Earth. The Entity, a malignant digital menace, is quickly taking control of nuclear silos everywhere, and Ethan is the only one it is afraid of. But can…
Review: Sinners
Ludicrous, but when it is all said and done, Sinners is a classic horror in the making. In 1930s America, young Samuel wants to become a blues guitarist. To achieve this dream, he joins a pair of twins who are setting up a new club house. But everyone’s plans and excitement are about to be…