The first season of Undone was probably my favourite TV show of 2019. It was a trippy, sci-fi drama dealing with grief, trauma and mental illness, all beautifully told using wonderfully effective rotoscope animation. That style of animation provided a huge sense of realism while allowing for the more trippy aspects of the story to […]
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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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Based on Gege Akutami’s four-chapter prequel, Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK) 0 introduces a crucial character, Yuta Okkotsu, to the overall JJK story. Yuta is haunted by his childhood friend, Rika, who died after being hit by a car. Rika becomes a powerful, special grade curse that appears whenever Yuta is bullied and after four bullies are
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Monster Hunter is the live-action adaptation of the Japanese video game series of the same name, now available to watch on Sky and Now TV. While it may look and feel very similar to a video game, sadly this film isn’t anywhere near as fun and satisfying. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil and
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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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Coming to Netflix from November 28, Elves is a six-part Danish series from the creators and executive producers behind The Rain. It’s a Christmas tale, but with a little touch of horror thrown in for good measure. Perfect. A family of four are travelling by ferry to a remote Danish island for a Christmas break
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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Arriving on Netflix tomorrow (November 19th), Hellbound is the latest Korean drama hoping to take the world by storm with an outlandish and violent storyline. Developed by writer/director Yeon Sang-Ho (Train to Busan, Peninsula) and illustrator Choi Kyu-Seok, this 6 part series has been adapted from their own webtoon “The Hell” and features a killer
What We Do in the Shadows has returned for a third season, something I never thought I’d see. Based on the 2014 mockumentary film of the same name, the show has surpassed all expectations with two incredibly brilliant seasons. Coming back for a third was always going to be tough and while this season is
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Hot on the heels of Squid Game is Netflix’s latest binge-worthy Asian tv series, the Japanese Alice in Borderland. With similar themes, it’s hard not to draw comparisons between this and the aforementioned smash hit South Korean series, Squid Game. But with a frustratingly intriguing plot, Alice in Borderland definitely has the edge. Based on
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the newest entry into Marvel Cinematic Universe as phase 4 gets underway. It’s the hefty 2 hour 14-minute origin story of Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), who was originally based on Bruce Lee. The first portion of the film is entirely in Mandarin and is Wenwu’s story over
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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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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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SPOILER WARNING: This review covers all 6 episodes of Loki, so obviously contains massive spoilers! Loki, featuring the return of Tom Hiddleston to the MCU, has escaped with the tesseract, and is subsequently caught by the TVA. He agrees to help Owen Wilson’s Mobius track down a variant that is conveniently a version of himself.
Witch Hunt is a 2021 supernatural drama within an alternate modern-day America, where witches are real, witchcraft is illegal and being burnt at the stake by witch hunters is a feared punishment. While the concept is good and had heaps of potential, the poor lacklustre execution does not make for a bewitching watch. The film
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You know when you watch a movie, and you’re completely entertained during it, but afterwards, all you remember is the action portions and none of the plot? That’s me right now, after watching this movie just a little less than three hours ago. I’ll get this out of the way, the plot was obviously forgettable.
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