Somehow, surprisingly, more dumb than expected. The Mortal Kombat tournament is here, and Earthrealm needs one more defender to stop evil Shao Kahn’s rule. The gods have chosen dead-beat action star Johnny Cage… who quickly refuses the call. Can the world be saved by these unlikely heroes? 2021’s Mortal Kombat was released to streaming during…
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Review: Exit 8
A neat little horror movie. Not overly scary, but it is an interesting experience. A man finds himself trapped in a subway’s liminal space that repeats itself. The only way to escape is to observe his surroundings for peculiar changes. Exit 8 is the movie adaptation of the indie video game of the same name….
Review: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
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…
Review: Iron Lung
For a debut actor, writer, director, distributor, it is remarkable how good this actually is. The stars in the universe are disappearing, humans are disappearing. So begins a radical search for answers and solutions on deadly worlds. One such world is a moon of blood, and the only way to explore its depths is in…
Review: Until Dawn
I am not sure who this movie is made for. After her sister goes missing, Clover brings her friends on the trail on which she was last seen. But in finding an isolated hotel, the group find themselves trapped for a night that seems to never end. Directed by Peter F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam!)…
Review: A Minecraft Movie
Everything is not Awesome. Random people find themselves thrown into The Overworld, a magical land where creativity is endless. But they quickly find it threatened by a malevolent force. Directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and starring Jack Black (Borderlands, The Super Mario Bros Movie) and Jason Momoa (Dune: Part One) the movie……
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: Borderlands
All the progress made for the video game adaptation… undone. Lilith, a bounty hunter, returns to her home planet of Pandora in search of a business CEO’s daughter who has been kidnapped. Little does she know, this girl’s fate is entwined with opening a legendary vault, containing unparalleled power. Borderlands was a hit video game…
Review: Boy Kills World
Frenetic and extremely gory, but also a little tiring. When his family is killed by a tyrannical family that holds an iron grip over the city, a mute, deaf boy is trained into a killer. His sole purpose is revenge. Directed by relative newcomer Moritz Mohr, Boy Kills World is an extremely bloody, visceral action…
Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
A strong collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Studios; the film is a lot of fun! The “Super Mario Brothers” are a two-brother team of plumbers in Brooklyn, hoping to take the plumbing world by storm with their skills. But when they are sucked into another dimension, they have a lot more to deal with than…