All you need to know is that you should say Yes To this rather than No, at the end of the day. To say a lot without giving much away would be mean on my part, but think UFO phenomena, with a satirical film industry approach. Jordan Peele makes a very different film to Get…
Top Gun Maverick
As a spectacle, you get your ticket’s worth. You can tell the footage was for real, especially if you see this in IMAX. As a drama, it part delivers. Cruise – as Maverick, has declined in relevance although hilariously it goes to lengths so you wouldn’t know it’s a contemporary film. It has its own timeline. …
Jurassic World Dominion
Fun fact: 1st major Hollywood blockbuster to gear up again during Covid. Thanks to Universal’s insurance, you can’t tell this was the case. It sure takes an OTT approach and globe-trotts almost like a James Bond film. Sadly, I think it’s a 3 1/2 out of 5 till the last 40 mins, becoming long for…
Lightyear
Ain’t tons to say. It opens with a title card explaining how this was Andy’s (Toy Story) favourite movie and from there becomes a semi-adult sci-fi. Chris Evans voices Buzz Lightyear and does good job with what he has, but isn’t given the self-aware comic potential Tim Allen had. So he’s a little more thin. And Taika…
Fall
I don’t like heights. I’m sure not everyone likes heights. And I couldn’t tell you how much of this is green or blue screen. But I can tell you that you’ll likely have vertigo regardless afterwards. All you need to know is two young women, as best friends, resolve to climb this ridiculously high tower….
Squid Game
Me gets a little cynical about Netflix because if 2 minutes counts as a view then are we just picking things off of a buffet like at Pizza Hut?? So Squid Game‘s quite the achievement. Across 9 episodes, Seong Gi-hun rises as a tragic protagonist, while he and unfortunate others play a sadistic series of…
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
MCU films can lack a sense of worldbuilding wonder and feeling of creativity within the action, so it’s pleasing how different this is with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Simu Liu plays Xu Shang-Chi, who in shame of a past moves to San Fransisco. Naturally he has unknown special abilities, and Liu…
Black Widow
Been two years since Spider-Man: Far From Home, and so two years since we last got an MCU movie. It was always going to be a tall order to compare notes on how Black Widow would stack up? Think a conservative superhero film, but with James Bond spice. So in spite of things it is…
Fast & Furious 9
As we came out I said (tongue-in-cheek) “And the award for most realistic film goes to…”. Could be argued though that cartoon realism’s built up to this point where Tyrese Gibson questions whether they have invincibility? They even survived a submarine incident, without scars. After multiple dialogue lines about this ensemble being “family” that’s served…
A Quiet Place Part II
The first one was quite a sleeper hit. I’d not heard of John Krasinski before this even with The Office’s American version being quite popular, but after watching Part I I figured he really established himself not just as an actor but as someone who can direct genre (in this case a post-apocalyptic horror) with…
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