Don’t Look Up is Netflix’s latest much-heralded big release, starring some very big names. A new take on the asteroid headed towards earth disaster movie, this tongue in cheek, satirical romp has some great ideas and funny moments but ultimately becomes a little too tiresome and ridiculous. Directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman), […]
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The King’s Man is Matthew Vaughn’s long-awaited prequel to the Kingsman films. The film begins during the Boer War, with Orlando Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) delivering supplies with the Red Cross in Africa, where he meets with Kitchener (Charles Dance) and Morton (Matthew Goode). During the visit, Orlando’s wife, Emily, is killed, and he promises her
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Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third Spider-Man movie to star Tom Holland, and the latest release in Phase 4 of the MCU. With a trailer that left many fans unable to contain their excitement at the return of a number of familiar faces from Spider-Man past, expectations have been sky high, and the end
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Be Somebody (Yang ming li wan) is a Mandarin-language film with Agatha Christie vibes. In Post-war Shanghai, Scriptwriter Li Jiahui (Yin Zheng) is invited to a dinner party at a seemingly remote mansion with other members of the Shanghai film industry. Lu Ziye (Minghao Chen), a producer, proposes a film about the infamous murder of
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is the latest adaptation of the Resident Evil games, taking the mantel from the previous series of 6 films starring Milla Jovovich. With a trailer that promised a much more faithful adaptation than the original film series, which had a passing resemblance to the games at best, hopes were
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Tick, tick… BOOM! is the directorial debut of musical maestro Lin-Manuel Miranda, now showing on Netflix. It follows the true-life story of theatre composer Jonathan Larson, the man behind the hit musical Rent, in his early days as a struggling artist in New York City. Featuring some fantastic songs and a star turn from Andrew
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House of Gucci rollicks through the story of the Gucci family/brand from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) meets Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) at a party and pursues him based upon his last name. Maurizio is one of the heirs to the fashion house Gucci and clearly has money. He quickly
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The first season of Tiger King was released at the perfect time, right as everyone was stuck at home during the initial COVID lockdown. It brought us into the world of the batsh*t crazy big cat people in the USA. Our Tiger King, Joe Exotic, a gun-toting, gay polygamist, ran an exotic zoo in the
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There was a lot of negativity surrounding the 2016 Ghostbusters movie and the introduction of a new all-female team of Ghostbusters. I personally didn’t feel before seeing the movie that any of that negativity was warranted or necessary, even though the trailers really didn’t do it any justice, but I actually ended up quite enjoying
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Red Notice is the latest star-studded release from Netflix, whose main aim appears to be throwing together the talents of three well-known stars and hoping for a win. However, no matter how much talent and charisma is on offer here, it can’t hide the incredibly lacklustre story. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper, Dodgeball), Red
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Originally scheduled for an April 2020 release, supernatural horror Antlers has finally hit our screens 18 months later. With Guillermo Del Toro acting as producer and a trailer that looked quirky and, frankly, a little terrifying, expectations were high. And for once I wasn’t disappointed. The film is set in a small town in Oregon
Eternals is Marvel’s latest superhero offering in the MCU to hit our screens. Directed by award-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), expectations were high, and as an ensemble, the Eternals have big shoes to fill. However, despite a trailer that showed some promise, Eternals is lacking in everything that has made the MCU what it is
The Phantom is one of the newest Netflix true-crime documentary films that probably deserved a miniseries instead. The documentary covers the 1983 murder case of a convenience store attendant, Wanda, in Corpus Christie, TX. Carlos DeLuna was found shortly after the fatal stabbing in the area, hiding under a car. DeLuna proclaims his innocence, insisting
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Set in the near future (and featuring the now-obligatory reference to the latest variant of Covid that the world is now dealing with!) Warning is a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that explores the meaning of life through a number of interconnected stories. There’s no getting away from the comparisons to Black Mirror you’ll be making as
In the USA, the FBI reports that ‘Sextortion’ is currently the single largest growing threat to children on the internet, with only five states having made it a felony. In #Like, writer/director Sarah Pirozek gives us a look at one girl’s grief as she tries to come to terms with her sister’s suicide, and the
After being delayed by nearly a year thanks to the pandemic, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, the long-awaited adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, has finally hit the big screen. While it might come across a little confusing to those that haven’t read the original story, fans of the book will rejoice at finally having an adaptation
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