Prospect is an indie sci-fi thriller due for release on Amazon Prime. With a synopsis that promises an epic to rival the work of Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan, expectations were incredibly high. And while this doesn’t really come close to these lofty ideals, for a low budget sci-fi it’s surprisingly good. The film is […]
Old is the latest release from M. Night Shyamalan, a mysterious tale of rapid ageing based on a graphic novel called Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. With an intriguing premise and trailer, I was excited to see how Old turns out, especially as Shyamalan’s previous offerings have been both hit (Split, The
The Return is an award-winning supernatural thriller from director BJ Verot. Richard Harmon stars as Rodger Emmerlich, a young physics student who is returning to his family home following the recent death of his father under ‘mysterious circumstances’. Joining him are girlfriend Beth (Sara Thompson) and best friend Jordan (Echo Andersson). We’re already wary of
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Ryan Reynolds video game adventure film Free Guy finally hits the big screens after a series of delays. The film follows Reynolds as Guy, an NPC (non playable character) who finds his life changed when he passes a sunglass-wearing (real player) woman humming Mariah Carey. This sets off a chain of events as he teams
The Auschwitz Escape (AKA The Auschwitz Report) features the true story behind the Vrba-Wetzler report, which was instrumental in highlighting the atrocities taking place in Germany’s concentration camps, and was Slovakia’s submission for Best International Feature Film for the 2021 Oscar. While the film definitely illustrates the stark bleakness of the camps, the events depicted
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Originally due to be released back in July 2020, Jungle Cruise is yet another blockbuster movie that should have been and gone a long time ago. But, thanks to Covid, it now finds itself being released simultaneously both in cinemas and on Disney+ via premier access. Based on the Disneyland theme park ride of the
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The film Stillwater is based upon and exploits the Amanda Knox story. Swapping Italy for the town of Marseille, France, Allison (Abigail Breslin), an American university student is convicted of killing her girlfriend, Lina. Bill (Matt Damon), Allison’s estranged father, visits her regularly in prison and is convinced of her innocence. The majority of the
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The Green Knight, based upon the poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, does the poem justice. We join our relatively pure-hearted Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) on Christmas morning, as he wakes in what appears to be a brothel. He rushes home to his Mother (Sarita Choudhury), to change for the Christmas Day feast with
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Earlier this year, Netflix released The Mitchells vs The Machines (still my number one movie of the year so far!) after acquiring it from Sony Pictures Animation. Now, after opting to forgo a cinematic release, Sony have licensed their latest movie Vivo to Netflix, where it will be streaming from August 6th. Directed by “The
The Suicide Squad is not quite a reboot but a kind of sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad. The original had a lacklustre reception, to say the least, so this sequel had a lot of negativity to overcome. But with Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn at the helm, any concerns were clearly
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The Last Letter From Your Lover is the story of a doomed love affair, recounted over two different periods in time. It is an adaptation of the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes, who also wrote Me Before You, another novel that made it to the big screen and starred Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. Not
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The Forever Purge is the fifth, and supposedly final, instalment of the Purge franchise. What started out as a low-key home invasion horror in The Purge has turned into fast-paced action with this latest film, and unfortunately, it doesn’t quite live up to expectations. The film follows on from the events of the third film,
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You wait an age for a Don Quixote film and then two come along almost all at once. Following closely behind Terry Gilliam’s rather bizarre fantasy comes The True Don Quixote, a more grounded, low budget effort that brings a lot of heart even if it is sadly lacking in other areas. Directed by Chris
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Snake Eyes is the newest film in the G.I. Joe franchise and gives us the backstory behind the titular character. Snake Eyes, who doesn’t have a real name, watches his father get murdered as a child. The guy that murders him, some nondescript mercenary-type dude, decides if he should kill someone via a roll of
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Jolt is a 2021 action film from Amazon Prime, with a plot synopsis that sounds so ridiculous I almost skipped over it completely. However I was drawn in by the decent cast and, despite its flaws, overall it is a fairly enjoyable bit of forgettable entertainment. Jolt stars Kate Beckinsale as Lindy Lewis, a woman
Georgetown, based upon the true story of a grifter, starring Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annette Bening, is the directorial debut of Christoph Waltz. Waltz plays Ulrich Mott, who marries an older, affluent widow, Elsa Breht (Redgrave), to climb the social ladder in Washington DC. Elsa’s daughter, Amanda (Bening) is understandably suspicious of Mott, for
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