What is this all for, James? While Jake Sully and his family grieve for the losses from their last battle, war escalates as Quaritch allies with the violent Ash Clan. Three hours and fifteen minutes, summarised in a single sentence. I want to get on board with what director James Cameron is doing with Avatar,…
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Review: Avatar – Way of Water (3D)
The film is absolutely gorgeous. But it caused a lot of head-scratching. Following the events of 2009’s Avatar, we see Jake Sully’s avatar at peace with his family; two sons, a daughter, an adopted daughter, and an adopted human son, as well as Neytiri. But when the humans return to Pandora, he sees that they…
Review: A Monster Calls
A surprisingly morose and sad story, old lessons exceptionally well explored. Conor lives with his mother who is slowly dying of cancer. The young boy’s life is a wreckage of bottled emotion and absent father figures and childhood, but when a colossal, fifty foot monster takes an interest in him, Conor is about to learn…
Review: Finding Dory (2D)
Finding Dory is like a metaphor for our lead character. Insane, dotty and full of slapstick comedy with just a dusting of heart string-pulling. After helping her friend Marlin rescue his son Nemo, the fish with short-term memory loss Dory begins to remember her past. Can she find her parents… somewhere out in the ocean?…
Review: Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Well, at least there’s one positive to enjoy: I get to rewatch these films again! Ghostbusters (1984) Wow, what can you say about this 1984 classic? Two Oscar nominations, the film’s a true product of the time and most likely a catalyst for the movies we have today. Three scientists investigating supernatural apparitions in New…
Review: Chappie
From the director of District 9 and Elysium, a robot is given a chance to experience growing up in a city of gangland warfare after an experimental artificial consciousness is loaded into it. Dev Patel (of Slumdog Millionaire fame) plays Deon, a praised robotics designer responsible for ending most crime in Johannesburg by inventing Scout robots for…
Saga Review: Alien
The Alien franchise has to be one of my favourites, and I am always excited to have an excuse to rewatch them all, and what better excuse than a new film to be added to the series! Yes, I am off to see Ridley Scott’s Prometheus shortly, and so I have made a Saga Review of…