Andy really is a boring child if this was his favourite movie… After crash landing a ship of 1,200 crew, space ranger Buzz Lightyear goes on a daring attempt to refuel the ship so they can go home. But his attempts fling him into the future, where an evil villain awaits… Despite 1995’s Toy Story…
Review: Jurassic World – Dominion
There has been far too much splicing involved to keep this prehistoric franchise going… Dinosaurs are freely roaming the Earth, and corporations are now using genetic power to affect the ecosystem. When mercenaries kidnap both Blue’s daughter and cloned human Maisie, it is up to Owen and Claire to get them back. 2015’s Jurassic World…
Review: Men
Possibly the most over-indulgent film by Alex Garland yet… When a woman’s husband kills himself, she rents out an old manor in the English countryside to escape the haunting memories. However, the town doesn’t seem to be all as it appears, and her escape might be taking a completely different route. Alex Garland is something…
Review: Top Gun – Maverick
When someone says longingly: “They don’t make films like that anymore,” this is the sort of film they are talking about! Pete “Maverick” Mitchell may not be in the Navy’s good books anymore, but when a deadly mission requires the best of the best to be even better, he is called in to teach them….
Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Moments of absurdity, emotion-filled, comedic, action packed. This film quite possibly has everything. A Chinese laundromat owner in America struggles with the balance of her work and family life, especially with her estranged daughter, traditional father, and seemingly weak-willed husband. But when her husband exhibits near inhuman abilities, and suddenly tells her she is the…
Review: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness
Poor Sam Raimi… It feels like he was left holding the bag… Doctor Stephen Strange finds himself defending a mysterious young woman whose powers allow her to move through the multiverse at will. But others are looking to take her powers from her… When Marvel Studios announced the first schedule for the MCU’s “Phase 4”,…
Review: Fantastic Beasts – The Secrets of Dumbledore
Does anyone care about the Fantastic Beasts franchise anymore? Evil wizard Grindlewald is still out there, but with the great Dumbledore powerless to act against him, a political powerplay seems inevitable. However, a team of unlikely heroes could stop the conspiracy, if they act as unpredictably as possible. In 2018 we got our first look…
Review: Morbius
The Sony Marvel multiverse raises its head, slowly but surely. An intelligent scientist attempts to cure his rare blood disease by infusing himself with vampire bat DNA. With a monstrous transformation comes great guilt; especially when a friend also takes the cure and goes on a rampage… Sony Pictures are permanently hobbled in the hearts…
Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
After a pretty successful first outing, the sequel has some of the hero’s… overconfidence. Doctor Ivo Robotnik has returned from being marooned on an alien world, hellbent on destroying the blue hedgehog hero that put him there. But he isn’t alone; a new adversary joins him, while Sonic himself gains a new ally. This is…
Review: Knives Out
A modern whodunnit thriller. Funny, classy, but a little simplistic. When a famous author is found dead, seemingly within a closed room in his family’s house, his nurse becomes the centre of attention as a private investigator is called in. But stranger things are afoot. Released in 2019, director Rian Johnson (who at the time…