It will make you want to take your earbuds everywhere! A family move to the German countryside as the parents work on designing a new resort. However their estranged teenage daughter starts to suspect not everything is as it appears. Written and directed by Tilman Singer, and starring Hunter Schafer (The Hunger Games), Dan Stevens…
Review: The Crow (2024)
Another example were legacies die and audiences are left bereft. Two escapees from a rehab facility, Eric and Shelly, are murdered. But Eric’s soul returns from the afterlife to seek answers and vengeance. Director Rupert Sanders doesn’t have a great track record. Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012 and the live action Ghost in…
Review: The Crow (1994)
It can’t rain all the time. Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally murdered, Eric returns from the dead to lay vengeance upon the drug gang that killed them. Released in 1994 and directed by Alex Proyas, The Crow is a visually striking revenge film based off the comics of the same name. It has…
Review: Trap (2024)
M. Night Shyamalan is back. What could be the twist this time…? A father takes his daughter to a concert of her favourite singer/songwriter. But a heavy police presence is the first sign that the concert is a trap to catch a dangerous killer. Straight off the bat, I am a little uncertain how to…
Review: Alien – Romulus
New tricks elevate Alien: Romulus. But there’s an evil lurking inside of it. A group of young friends, in seeing their bleak futures working in a mining colony until they die, seek escape. But when escape leads them to an abandoned research station, they discover something horrific. It is safe to say that the Alien…
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…
Banter: So I tried 4DX cinema
Film has changed a lot over the years, and one of the most current and advanced formats is 4DX. I rejected the format on principle. Why on earth would anyone want to watch a static image of a movie while their chair was shaking and stuff is blown in their face? It simply made no…
Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
It is a lot of fun. But for everything going on, it rings surprisingly hollow. Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, finds his entire reality at risk of obliteration. In a desperate attempt to save those he cares about, he finds a Wolverine from another reality. But can this team-up work at all? The meta narrative is…
Review: Longlegs
A horror movie with retro stylings that, while flawed, stands above its peers. FBI agent Lee Harker joins a cold case following a string of murdered families. The families seemingly killed themselves without provocation or cause. Can Harker discover the truth behind the murders? Longlegs is one of those small horror movies that gets a…
Review: Twisters
For a sequel no one asked for, it’s alright. Kate has an uncanny sense of weather prediction, but after disaster strikes she quits “tornado chasing”. But years later an old friend brings her back, hoping to tame the tornado. Twister was a 1996 film by Jan De Bont, who had come hot off the press…