Alienated: Why Venom is a Host without the Most…
Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) doesn’t have it all, but he has enough to get by. His investigative-reporting has got him a gig with a significant financial-backer, his fiancée (Michelle Williams) … Read More
Category: FILM REVIEW
Erased by Wolves? ‘Dark’ holds the tension and mood…
Medora Slone (Riley Keogh) watches her son Bailey, playing in the snow outside their Alaskan cabin and notices a wolf at the edge of the property. When she returns from … Read More
Washington’s Sequalizer improves vigilante veneer…
Returning from Turkey where he has managed to rescue a young girl from the father who has abducted her, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is looking forward to taking it easy. … Read More
McKinnon & Kunis bond with ‘Spy’ Fidelity…
Audrey (Mila Kunis) is drowning her sorrows with best friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon) after Audrey’s boyfriend Drew (Justin Thereoux) dumps her by text. In the midst of therapeutically burning all … Read More
Netflix ‘Extinction’ isn’t quite DOA, but lacks a pulse…
Peter (Michael Peña) is having very bad dreams – where his city and his friends and neighbours are suddenly slain by an attack mounted by lights that come from the … Read More
Fallout – Impossible’s re:mission position…
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)’s new mission, should he choose to accept it, is to stop the sale of three spheres of plutonium that could wreak havoc if detonated. What’s left … Read More
Apocalypse, Meh: ‘How it Ends’ is a road to nowhere…
Seattle-based Will (Theo James) and his fiancée Samantha (Kat Graham) have just found out she’s expecting their baby. When Will is on a business trip to Chicago, he decides to … Read More
Bugs Bonne: ‘Ant Man & the Wasp’ – more buzz than sting…
Ex-con and sometime adventurer Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is days away from completing his two years of house-arrest after illegally helping the fugitive Captain America (during the events of Civil … Read More
Fallen Kingdom: Talking about a Devolution…
The island of Isla Nubar is about to be destroyed by volcanic activity and despite pressure to save the surviving dinosaurs, the world seems to have decided that nature is … Read More
Howard grants ‘Solo’ a little Serenity…
Han is a young man with a plan – several in fact – and all of them involve he and his companion Qi’ra getting off the backward planet of Correlia. … Read More
Game On: Spielberg’s latest is ‘Ready’: Willing and able…
It’s Ohio, 2045, though geography and time probably have little of importance as most people are focussed on the virtual-reality of the Oasis, a global network that offers an alternative … Read More
A Brine Romance: ‘The Shape of Water’ is Amphabulous…
Eliza Esposito (Sally Hawkins) lives a lonely life – dividing her time between her apartment above an old movie theater, doughnut breaks with neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) and her lowly … Read More
Ripping Yarn: ‘Limehouse Golem’ stages a bloody tale…
London in the late 1800s, a few years before Jack the Ripper will cut his way through the back-streets. But another monster is already there, apparently randomly murdering men, women … Read More
Claw & Order: Netflix’s latest: ‘Bright’ Lights, Bit Iffy…..
In an alternative 2017 the modern world has many of our tried and tested problems – but with a twist. Over the last millennia, the magic world of Orcs, faeries, … Read More
Justice League: The Mourning after the Fight Before…
Superman is dead, killed at the hands of Doomsday and General Zod and leaving Bruce Wayne feeling somewhat responsible for his demise and the fight that preceded it. Believing that … Read More