Reviews – The Father and Godzilla Verses Kong
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Take two: Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Exhausting but an improvement.
Word travels slow in News of the World
Tom Hanks puts the ‘man’ in ‘anchorman’.
Pixar rolls the dice with Onward
Field of Dreams meets Dungeons and Dragons in Pixar’s latest.
Is Joker a big troll?
We’ve perfected the art of giving things the attention they don’t deserve.
The Walking Deadpan
The Dead Don’t Die is a zany genre trip.
Godzilla remains a political monster
A blockbuster with a political pulse.
Rocketman: a musical desperate to break out
Hold me closer tiny song and dance numbers.
The Poké-Noir of Detective Pikachu
Grounded in a world of cute totem creatures with its buddy cop premise but the sins of video game films lurk.
Shazam! Adventures in Superhero-ing
The DC Comics stable of superheroes have finally found a groove
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Stuck on rewind in space
Vol. 2 has the revelry of the first, but it feels regimented, like a party planner hired to recapture the magic of a spontaneous night out.
Oh Jackie
Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) rides in the back of a ambulance following the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy (Brody and Aiden Weinberg). She lists names to her companions and asks if… Continue reading
Assassin’s Creed is a slave to the material
Everything, even the title, gets unpacked. There is nothing left to the imagination.
Becoming an avatar of what you love in La La Land
A relief from the potholes of life as we envision the best versions of ourselves in snappy musical numbers.
Rebel Yell
In war – Rogue One is desperate to underline the ‘war’ in ‘Star Wars’ – hope is the ideal motivational poster but it can’t be instilled without sacrifice.