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Movie Review: '28 Years Later'

Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, Jack O’Connell Plot: 28 years after the Rage Virus ended modern civilisation on the island of England, small groups of survivors manage to isolate themselves the infected. On a small island connected to the mainland by a causeway, twelve year-old Spike is about to enter the world for the first…

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Movie Review: 'Predator - Killer of Killers'

Plot: The newest edition in the long running Predator franchise, Predator – Killer of Killers, this time takes the animation route. Presented in an anthology format, the film follows the Yautja as they hunt humans across three separate timelines. The first story, set in 841 Scandinavia, centers on Ursa (Lindsay Lavanchy), a Viking warrior who seeks revenge against the warlord who murdered her…

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Movie Review: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Plot: Two months after the events of Dead Reckoning, the globe is in chaos. The A.I. known as the Entity continues to seize control of the world’s nuclear systems and seeks to create a new world order. Aided by a doomsday cult that believes the Entity will usher in a new Golden Age, the Entity knows its only weakness is its original source code, located in the sunken Russian submarine the…

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Movie Review: 'Ballerina'

Director: Len Wiseman Cast: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus, Lance Reddick Plot: In the neon world of highly trained assassins, up-and-comer Eve sets out on a path of vengeance that becomes more complicated the further she travels. Review: One would have to be naive to think that the John Wick franchise was going…

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James Gunn's Superman Is The Movie We Need Right Now

“Nana korobi ya oki.” For those of you not up on your Japanese, it’s a proverb that translates to “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” It emphasizes the importance of resilience and perseverance. That sentence could easily be the epigram of all of human history. Civilizations rise and fall, wars come and go, peace reigns and is subjugated, and bright shining democracies descend into brutal…

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Movie Review: 'The Surfer'

Director: Lorcan Finnegan Cast: Nick Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell Plot: A man returns to him hometown in Australia’s south-west only to find that the locals aren’t welcoming. Determined to close his house purchase and hit the waves, he settles into a game of resilience under the intense Australian summer. Review: Straight up, as a reviewer, in the local area this was…

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Movie Review: 'Sinners'

Plot: In 1932 identical twins Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta just at the tail-end of Prohibition. Using stolen money from their former employer, gangster Al Capone, the WWI veterans seek to open a juke joint for the local black community. After purchasing an old sawmill from a member of the Ku Klux Klan and enlisting…

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Movie Review: 'The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie'

Director: Pete Browngardt Cast: Eric Bauza, Candi Milo, Peter MacNicol, Fred Tatasciore, Laraine Newman, Wayne Knight Plot: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig take jobs at a chewing gum factory, where they discover and alien plot to subject the people of Earth to mind control through chewing gum infected with an alien parasite. Review: Although the Looney Tunes cast if characters have remained…

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Movie Review: 'Mickey 17'

Plot: In the near future, Mickey Barnes’ (Robert Pattinson) life is going nowhere. After a failed business venture financially ruins him, Mickey flees Earth – and a psychotic loan shark – to colonize the planet Nilflheim. Unfortunately, with no marketable skills, Mickey signs up to be an Expendable, a disposable employee forced to handle the most lethal jobs imaginable. Every time Mickey “dies,”…

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Movie Review: 'The Brutalist'

Plot: After surviving Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII, Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) immigrates to America hoping to find a fresh start. While working at his cousin Attila’s (Alessandro Nivola) furniture store, Laszlo is hired to renovate a library for wealthy industrialist Harrison Van Buren (Guy Pearce). Initially furious at Laszlo’s radical changes, Van Buren…

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Movie Review: 'The Monkey'

Director: Osgood Perkins Cast: Theo James, Christian Convery, Tatiana Maslany, Colin O’Brien, Sarah Levy, Oz Perkins, Rohan Campbell, Elijah Wood Plot: Hal and Bill are twin brothers who, their childhood came into possession of a toy wind-up monkey. This cursed item will, when wound up, play his drum and cause a person to die in an inexplicable and highly unlikely accident. Review: We had high…

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Movie Review: 'The Gorge'

Director: Scott Derrickson Cast: Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver Plot: An incredibly gifted sniper with no ties to the world is tasked with spending a year manning a watch-tower above a gorge, which he has been told is full of dangerous creatures. Although he’s not permitted to communicate with the sniper in the opposite tower, they not only make contact but form a romantic…

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Movie Review: 'Hard Truths'

Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett, Ani Nelson, Sophia Brown, Jonathan Livingstone, Samantha Spiro Plot: Pansy Deacon is a mother and wife in modern London and lives her life on a hair-trigger. She actively seeks out people and things to be angry at, making no secret of her feelings and recounting her grievances to her family over…

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Movie Review: 'Captain America: Brave New World'

Director: Julius Onah Cast: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Giancarlo Esposito, Tim Blake Nelson Plot: Sam Wilson has adopted the title of Captain America, complete with a new Falcon at his side. When an assassination attempt is carried out on Thaddeus Ross, now the President, Captain America is drawn into a…

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Movie Review: 'Bird'

Director: Andrea Arnold Cast: Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Jason Buda, Jasmine Jobson, Frankie Box, James Nelson-Joyce Plot: Bailey is a 12 year old forced to grow up quickly on the lower tier of Britain’s socio-economic scale. Whilst trying to find her way, Bailey has to navigate gang violence, familial abuse and helping a mentally disabled man looking for his family. Review:…

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My 2024 Movie Year In Review!

Ahhh it’s that time once again! That time when I reflect on the year that was in film. I’m happy to report that the reports of cinema’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. While I wouldn’t call 2024 revelatory, it certainly offered a crop of excellent films, one of which I consider to be in the top ten of films released this century. As with other years I tried to take in as many films as I…

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Classic Scene: Prom Queen

“Prom Queen” Carrie (1976) directed by Brian DePalma The Scene: The dream once thought impossible has come true for shy and bullied Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) she now stands as Prom Queen alongside her crush Tommy (William Katt). As she basks in the supposed adoration of her classmates something is wrong and Sue (Amy Irving) is the first to spot it as all of this has been a scheme for…