Pixar continue to be as inventive as ever with each new movie. You can almost guarantee that the central story or character is like nothing you have seen before and that they will be able to build an impressive world … Continue reading Luca (2021) Review
With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Marvel Studios delivers one of its most creative movies yet. Doctor Strange always lent itself to impressive imagery but this is a film which manages to bring the mind-bending and reality warping … Continue reading Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness (2022) Review
There is something powerful about simply retelling a story as a matter-of-fact series of events. This is the form that Attica takes, using witnesses from the event, people in and around the protest and those still affected by it, be … Continue reading Attica (2021) Review
Ascension is a good idea but you need to buy into what you are watching. There is no “hand-holding” here and it becomes fairly clear, fairly quickly, that you will witness events as a fly-on-the-wall rather than as a narrative … Continue reading Ascension (2021) Review
The best movies could put the characters in any situation and you would still be engrossed. If you’ve written your character well enough, you should be able to watch them shopping and it would be interesting. This is exactly the … Continue reading The Mitchells vs The Machines (2021) Review
Animation suits the documentary format so well that its surprising that more movies of this medium don’t use it. It is especially fitting when a person is recounting incredible events of their life. Rather than recreations, which documentaries like The … Continue reading Flee (2021) Review
Although the buddy cop film has been done so many times before that there is little to add to the genre, there is something about Rush Hour that makes it special. Even though it brings absolutely nothing new to the … Continue reading Rush Hour (1998) Review
Its impressive that Guillermo Del Toro creates a movie which has two plot threads that could easily hold an entire movie to themselves. It is even more impressive that neither of these plot threads buckle under the pressure of sharing … Continue reading Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Review
The best of M Night Shyamalan movies have “the hook:” the concept that gets you invested in the story and Old has that. The movie follows a small group of holiday makers, made-up of differing family dynamics, thrown together on … Continue reading Old (2021) Review
It is rare that you watch a movie where Tom Cruise is not likeable. Unfortunately for Jerry Maguire, where Tom Cruise plays the titular character, that is exactly the case. This would be fine if you slowly grow to like … Continue reading Jerry Maguire (1996) Review
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