A movie made for a very specific audience. It is fun, but it is largely “Illumination noise”. After the defeat of koopa king Bowser, the Mushroom Kingdom is in relative peace. However, when the villain’s son kidnaps another princess, he has the power to not only rescue Bowser, but terrorise the whole galaxy. The Super…
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Review: Arco
I will always respect an animation studio that goes for hand-drawn animation. Arco, a boy living in a house above the clouds, risks everything and finds himself in a strange world below. Iris, a girl who finds him, has her life turned upside down trying to help him return to wherever he came from. Arco…
Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Your mileage will certainly vary with this one. A man from the future bursts into an American diner and recruits several customers at random. His intent? To save the world from impending AI catastrophe. Is he talking nonsense? Can the team succeed if it is true? Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is directed by…
Review: Mercy (2026)
Silly, cliché, and slightly disturbing. Mercy ultimately isn’t anything good. A law enforcer finds himself on trial for the murder of his wife. His judge, jury, and executioner is a powerful AI program. Mercy stars Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, who both must have needed to pay off private yachts or something. Timur Bekmambetov directs…
Review: Eternity
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…
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…