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…

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. …

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

It’s been a really interesting year, certainly for film, and with Wonder Woman 1984 accidentally being 2020’s closing movie there’s pressure riding on that to deliver. Worth a watch? For sure it’s worth watching. To go too much into why’s spoilery but I can say that amidst its epic OTT spectacle is a well-earned message…

Sarah Gavron, as the director, previously did Suffragette (2015). That was a reasonably raw and dare I say it, single-minded (although focused) insight into what they fought for back in the early 1900s, specifically in London. Here there is also a focus on female empathy (within an urban environment although obviously the results are no…