Madame Web is Sony Pictures’ latest foray into the Marvel universe, following in the footsteps of 2022’s Morbius. Sadly Madame Web is another lacklustre attempt and even I’d go so far as saying it beats Morbius to the accolade of worst Sony superhero film to date. The film opens in the 1970s in Peru, where […]
Silo is a dystopian sci-fi series streaming now on Apple TV+. Based on the Silo book series of the same name by Hugh Howey, this is a gripping and engaging adaptation that has breathed new life into the dystopian future genre. The series follows 10,000 people living in a 144-level underground bunker known as the
Milton (Ben Kingsley) lives a monotonous, quiet life in a small town in rural Pennsylvania. He goes about his typical routine, watching the same television shows every evening, taking care of his garden, attending council meetings, and repeatedly calling his daughter, Denise (Zoe Winters). One evening, a UFO crashes into his garden, and no one
Poor Things sees Emma Stone reunite with Yorgos Lanthimos for a sexual awakening odyssey story, as a Frankenstein’s monster-like creature crafted from a grown woman and the brain of an infant. Stone shows her range effortlessly, gliding through the film from baby brain to fully formed adult as she matures. Her partnership with Lanthimos appears
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After a 3-year absence, Black Mirror made a surprise return to Netflix this month. The latest season of the dark, technology-based anthology series features 5 brand new episodes with a host of famous faces, however, a change in thematic direction of the show is an area of contention. The first episode, Joan is Awful, stars
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After toxic air pollution turns Korea into a desert wasteland, only 1 percent of the population survives. Using social status, the remaining citizens are segregated into separate living districts. Thirty years after the disaster, in 2071, people wear respirators to go outdoors and rely on deliverymen, or “knights,” to protect and deliver daily necessities like
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If you’ve spent any time on social media in recent months, you’ll surely be aware of the creepy dance scene that went viral following the release of the first trailer for M3GAN and the subsequent marketing of the movie has been spot-on too. However, a consequence of that success was that the final movie turned
Eileen (Sara Mitich) is dreaming. A strange, hazy dream involving her and her young daughter Eve (Evie Loiselle) on a sunny beach. While Eve plays in the sand, she sings “Life is but a dream”. And the dream is interspersed with violent visions of Eileen facing off against heavily armed soldiers in some kind of
Nope is the third feature film release from writer/director Jordan Peele. Following on from his smash hits Get Out and Us, this time Peele ventures into sci-fi with a plot featuring an extra-terrestrial in the Californian countryside. The end result is both brilliant and incredibly frustrating and is by far the most conflicting film I’ve
Resident Evil is the latest adaptation of the smash hit Capcom video game series, this time brought to our screens as a Netflix tv show. Airing only 7 months after the release of the last adaptation, the promising yet disappointing Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, this series has decided to try a change of
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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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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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The Book of Boba Fett begins immediately following the events of the second season of the Mandalorian. Boba (Temuera Morrison), accompanied by Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen), kills Bib Fortuna and takes over Jabba the Hutt’s palace. Boba claims the title of Daimyo with the intention of ruling Jabba’s territories as a benevolent leader. As expected,
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Moonfall is the latest movie from German writer/director Roland Emmerich, the man behind disaster blockbusters such as Independence Day, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow. If you’ve seen the trailer for Moonfall, you’ll have gathered that this is yet another completely bonkers disaster movie from the guy who loves destroying things on a huge scale.
As the camera drifts across a scorched desert it settles on a small oasis of green and a large glasshouse that is nestled among the lush vegetation. Housed within the glasshouse are a family of survivors in a world that has been all but lost to a major pandemic. Yes, Glasshouse is yet another pandemic
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The Matrix Resurrections is the fourth film in the Matrix series, the first since the release of the second sequel Revolutions in 2003. Following on from two sequels that were misjudged to say the best, Resurrections is the sequel that no one really asked for and after watching it, it’s definitely a sequel we didn’t
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