I have always liked a good Schwarzenegger movie, mainly because even the bad ones manage to be good out of hilarity and because the dude, despite having a lack of acting talent, is still very entertaining and paradoxically charismatic in his own way. But The Terminator is a film he's actually good in. As in,... Continue Reading →
I don't normally say this before film reviews, but this is not the kind of film you want spoiled. Reading everything I'm going to put here will likely undermine your own experience of the film. Now, on with the review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things might be one of the saddest films I've seen. It... Continue Reading →
This is such a weird movie. It's 2 hours and 40 minutes long and for once I find myself saying that if this movie wanted to work, it definitely needed to be longer. There is just so much stuffed into it that I occasionally forgot members of the cast existed. Routinely someone would show up... Continue Reading →
Doctor Strange 2 (as I'll be referring to it for brevity), is the first MCU instalment to surprise me since Avengers Infinity War was released in 2018. Mainly because it tries to switch things up with the tone. It tries very hard to lean into the cosmic horror aspects of travelling alternate realities, and sometimes... Continue Reading →
My review backlog is getting kind of ridiculous. So ridiculous that there are films I watched months ago only just being released here. My Superman review being one of them, as well as Fellowship of the Ring. I actually had plans to review the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy, but didn't really have anything... Continue Reading →
When thinking of iconic superhero films in the modern day the 1978 Superman movie is one that probably won't, but should, come to mind. It's influence can be felt across my favourite superhero movies today like Sam Rami's Spiderman, or the formula followed by a lot of MCU and DC films. And for good reason;... Continue Reading →
Shang-Chi is another one of Marvel's exercises in producing the most predictable, formulaic and structurally boring blockbusters to grace the silver screen (why yes, superhero fatigue has kicked in for me since I last spoke of them). I watched this with my little sister who really wanted to see it with me. She, who had... Continue Reading →
I've never been much of one for fantasy and I don't know why. Whenever a science fiction movie comes about, I can relatively easily buy into all of its world-building and politics and take all of it at face value. But when it comes to traditional fantasy I tend to struggle. That is with the... Continue Reading →
In 2017 Universal Pictures decided to try and make their classic horror movies of old marketable again to the general public by making an action-orientated Mummy movie with Tom Cruise... It went down in flames, trying to mimic the business model of Marvel and DC. In 2020 Universal studios tried again but decided just to... Continue Reading →
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