One of the main problems when it comes to remaking huge, unsubtle sci-fi action movies from the 80s and 90s is that they tend to lose the bolshy personality and razor wit that made them so distinctive in the first place. Take both Robocop and Total Recall for example: two undisputed bangers from Paul Verhoven […]
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, one of the most fruitful director-actor partnerships of recent times, are back for the third time in as many years (and the fifth time overall) with Bugonia and, wouldn’t you know, it’s another knockout. Though I was less keen on 2024’s Kinds of Kindness, both The Favourite and Poor Things […]
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1h 37mins 8/10 First time watch in the cinema Bloody – Twisted – Hilarious A weekend getaway to a remote cabin with a group of friends, we all know in the world of horror/thrillers there’s only one way for this to go down… only this time the danger is not from the outside, the group are […]
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I’m cold, but rowing with this icy current. Embracing The “Wu wei” principle of Taoism.
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Natural prehistory comes to life in a series of special effects ‘attractions’ as Zeman’s charming adventure sees four boys enter a cave that transports them back to millions of years ago.
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When Americans leave home in search of meaning somewhere on the European continent, it’s usually a recipe for disaster (at least in the world of horror cinema). Young, brash, naive Americans have to face ancient beasts (The Ritual), human traffickers (Hostel), and even covens of witches (Suspiria). Watching enough horror films might make you think […]
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When you think of the 1970s, you probably think of free love, cults, psychedelic drugs, and maybe Jimmy Carter. Giulio Paradisi’s film, The Visitor (1979) has most of these things, but more than anything else, it embodies that whacky, hallucinatory vibe that only 70s films can capture. It seems to me that people back then […]
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As a film critic, there’s nothing more satisfying than discovering a director with a truly distinctive and entertaining style. With so many films I come across, I feel as though I’m watching something I’ve seen before, simply pushed through a grinder to give it a unique texture. It may look a little different, but it’s […]
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Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods Cast: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt Review Author: Tony Synopsis: After crash-landing on prehistoric Earth, only two survivors must navigate the hostile terrain and fend off vicious creatures to ensure their survival. I’ve always had a soft spot for schlock in my genre films, so when Hollywood decides to splurge on a B-movie […]
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It’s always great pleasure seeing such movies where from the opening scene you’re thrown into strange atmosphere of weirdness, tempting and seductive world from where you don’t really want to come back, no matter how uncontrolled the environment is. But in the end when the film over, you will feel a strong feeling of appreciation […]
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Let me clarify something – I have been rooting for Megalopolis ever since I first learned about it. Written as a passion project by Francis Ford Coppola himself, entirely financed by him, he also directed it… If one of the cinema’s best directors to have ever picked up a camera wants to tell a story […]
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While cinematic adaptations of novels are common and biopics about famous writers are hardly exceptional, a film made to put a real author through fictions similar to his or her own work is something else. That is the central issue in Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka, a taut nightmare that never quite convinces its purpose is equal […]
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John Boorman directs Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling and Sara Kestelman in this sci-fi fantasy where a brutal warrior hides in a flying stone head to discover how the secret society who control his people live. Another folly. This one from before my time. Infamous for Big Tam strutting around the Irish countryside in a bandolier, […]
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Dark Matter has the potential to be a fun, exciting show that successfully builds from a rather lackluster opening.
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Editor Jacob Calta takes on Francis Ford Coppola’s latter-day sci-fi epic and tries to articulate what it is that made this such a fascinating and powerful watch.
Megalopolis (2024) – A Future in Latin
I feel like I should start out this review by saying I was a big fan of the 2 previous A Quiet Place movies. You can read my reviews here and here. They did a great job establishing atmosphere and creating compelling characters I could breathe with for the moment. However, they are not movies…
A hilariously satirical disaster epic that pokes fun at the media, government incompetence, and capitalist excess. Don’t Look Up is a satirical, science-fiction disaster movie where two scientists discover a comet, a “planet killer”, that will directly hit Earth and destroy all of human civilization. Their efforts to warn and save humanity are hindered by politics, […]
There’s few things more annoying than the cinematic bait and switch; setting up the idea of one movie in the minds of an audience, then delivering something else. Sometimes it’s because film-makers or studios change their minds, or sometimes the product doesn’t fit the marketplace; delivering a trailer for Sweeney Todd that provided no hint…
Adam McKay’s new film “Don’t Look Up”, which was released on Netflix on Christmas Eve after being released at theaters early in this month, attempts to laugh about how absurd and incorrigible we can be in front of one big global disaster, but it comes to resort to a series of cheap and superficial laughs […]
Don’t Look Up (2021) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): An uneven disaster comedy
The Matrix Resurrections is a strong, meta-driven return to the iconic franchise. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss effortlessly return their roles while Lana Wachowski brings a bold artistic vision. The fourth film in the Matrix franchise, The Matrix Resurrections brings back many familiar faces. Reeves and Moss are back as Neo and Trinity, while Yahya […]
The Matrix Resurrections – Review
