House of the Dragon is the long-awaited prequel series to the smash hit Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood novel. Unsurprisingly expectations for this series were high and despite my own personal misgivings about whether this prequel was necessary, House of the Dragon is undoubtedly a success. Set 200 […]
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She-Hulk, the latest series to enter the MCU, has finally wrapped on Disney+ after an interesting 9-episode first season. Due to its unconventional storytelling, it is Marvel’s riskiest move to date and sadly they don’t quite manage to pull it off. The show follows successful district attorney Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), who also happens to
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Back in 2020, I was lucky enough to catch Wolfwalkers as part of the London Film Festival. It was, I’m still ashamed to say, my first experience with the animation studio, Cartoon Saloon, which already had a number of Oscar-nominated titles under its belt. Wolfwalkers ended up being one of my favourite movies of that
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Pinocchio is the latest live-action adaptation of a Disney classic, now available to watch on Disney+. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this is the first of two Pinocchio adaptations to hit out screens in as many months, with Guillermo Del Toro’s stop motion version due in October. Unfortunately, this version fails to live up to the
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In the world of the South Korean film Alienoid, alien criminals are imprisoned inside humans. Guard (Kim Woo-bin), a cyborg on present-day Earth, manages these prisoners and travels through time with Thunder, a fellow robot. When Guard travels to 14th century Korea to arrest an alien who broke out of its human jail, Thunder brings
Thirteen Lives is the feature film dramatization of the 2018 Thai cave rescue of twelve boys and their football coach, now available to watch on Amazon Prime. Directed by Ron Howard, the film gives an informative and interesting take on the story but ultimately fails to deliver anything truly memorable. The film opens with the
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Lightyear is Pixar’s latest release, now available to watch on Disney+. Featuring the eponymous Space Ranger from the Toy Story films, Lightyear aims to bring something new to a character we know so well. But despite being a fun, enjoyable space romp, it fails to reinvent the wheel and justify its existence. The film opens
After the brilliant Thor: Ragnarok (which received a 5-star rating from me!), the prospect of Taika Waititi returning to not only direct but also write Love and Thunder was certainly an exciting one. Sure enough, the trailer looked as though we were about to get another winner – great soundtrack, incredible visuals, and a good
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Picking up ten years after Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan, now known as Ben, is a broken man, haunted by Anakin’s turn to the dark side. After Leia is kidnapped, Obi-Wan sets out to rescue her; unaware that the kidnapping is a ploy to lure him out of hiding. He is relentlessly pursued by the
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Two years after the release of the last series, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy is finally back for season 3. After foiling their second apocalypse, the dysfunctional family are thrown into yet more time travelling hijinks as they return from 1963. While initially, this season takes some time to settle in, once it finds its groove it’s
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As Isla Nublar succumbed to a violent volcanic eruption in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the final act also set up some interesting ideas to be pursued in a follow-up movie. We were introduced to Maisie Lockwood, granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Lockwood, who was an old business partner of John Hammond, only for Maisie to be
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Starring Oscar Isaac, Moon Knight is the first Marvel release to be completely untethered from the rest of the MCU. In what could have been a risky move that might easily polarise fans, the end result is a hugely entertaining story that is probably the best Marvel show to date. The show opens with Steven
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the latest mind-bending Marvel release, seeing the return of the eponymous sorcerer, his first solo outing since his origin film in 2016. With Evil Dead and original Tobey Maguire Spider-Man director, Sam Raimi at the helm, Multiverse of Madness see the MCU take a rather dark, scary
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Everything Everywhere All at Once follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) through the chaotic multiverse of what-ifs on her quest to save the world. Evelyn’s life is falling apart. She and her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), are on the brink of divorce and their laundromat is failing and being audited by the IRS. Her disapproving
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The Northman follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgard) on his bloody quest for revenge against his uncle, Fjolnir (Claes Bang). As a child, Amleth witnessed the murder of his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), by Fjoinir’s hand, narrowly escaping being murdered himself and vowing to avenge his father and save his mother, Queen Gudrun (Nicole Kidman). The
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the third film in the Fantastic Beasts prequel series, set in the wizarding world during a time before Harry Potter. The franchise is based very loosely on an educational textbook from the Harry Potter series and this third instalment plunges us into a complicated, pointless story that is
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