It’s a tale of two blockbusters and an indie. If you want a snapshot of the diversity of today’s cinema, then this is it; sure blockbusters are like the eighty ton gorilla that seems to cinematically stomp over everything, but the well done ones, and let’s hope these are among Continue Reading
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Movie review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
As characters go, Sonic the Hedgehog is a big deal. A staple of Sega’s video game portfolio, Sonic is an an anthropomorphically alien blue hedgehog who, after first emerging in 1991, went on to star in countless games for the franchise, earning the company healthy sales and putting the plucky Continue Reading
You are cleared for hyper launch! Lightyear drops its third and likely final trailer
SNAPSHOTThe definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, Continue Reading
Movie review: Moonfall
If you thought the days of batshit crazy big, bombastic, sanity-chewing blockbuster epics were well behind us, then please think again. Moonfall, steered by the expansively unedited hand of Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) is gloriously unhinged proof positive that there is a great deal of mortally-imperilled life left in Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The trippy character intensity of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
SNAPSHOT“‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in Continue Reading
Movie review: Sing 2
Pixar has been the main game in the animation town ever since Toy Story came alive in a deserted metaphorical toy room in 1995 and won our hearts with vividly-realised characters, clever, smart, emotionally insightful scripts and visuals so sharply drawn that you swore Woody, Buzz and the others were Continue Reading
Movie review: The Last Bus
The English have a welcome ability to make whimsically meaningful films that get right into your heart, which while they may be a little sentimental and comically cute at times, restore faith in audiences that life can be more than a thousand kinds of negatively awful. The more cynical among Continue Reading
So animated! Ice Age Scrat Tales, The Seabeast and Minions: The Rise of Gru
Thank goodness for animation! In a world beset an apocalyptic level set of events from the COVID pandemic to war to climate change to, likely somewhere on the planet, zombie uprisings and aliens (over the top, true, but their existence would certainly fit the dark and dismal spirit of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Unless you have been sleeping under a great big rock made of some sort of superhero-enervating material, you would have noticed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) likes to go big, very, VERY big. That’s hardly a surprise – it’s there in the name, after all. So, the fact that Continue Reading
Movie review: The Adam Project
One of the very worst things you can call any story is “derivative”, a casually poisonous accusation that inevitably coats the object of the derision in colours both inspired and cliched. But as with anything, it’s not the fact that the cliches and tropes are there in abundance that is Continue Reading