Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
A mysterious virus sweeps across the USA, killing 98 per cent of the children who contract it and gifting the survivors with psychic powers. When some of these powers turn dangerous, the government starts capturing children and teenagers and confining them to camps and categorising them into colours. Ruby Daly (Amandla Stenberg) is an 'orange', ...
Five uncontrollable teenage boys commit a terrible crime. As punishment they are handed over to an anonymous sea captain, who takes them as his captive crew on a sea voyage to a distant island. There they encounter strange, hazardous wildlife, as they struggle to evade the captain's clutches and find a way to escape back ...
A massive earthquake hits Japan's east coast, sending a nuclear reactor into meltdown and forcing the evacuation of the area. A 20 kilometre-wide exclusion zone is rapidly set up, with anybody within the zone urgently driven out of their homes. Dairy farmer Yasuhiko (Isao Natsuyagi) lives exactly 20 kilometres from the reactor. The line of ...
New Caledonian immigrant Dilili (Prunelle Charles-Ambron) escapes the confines of her cultural display in Paris to explore the city in depth. When she meets the local courier Orel (Enzo Ratsito), they team up to solve the mystery of a series of disappearances among Paris' young girls. Michel Ocelot is France's most well known animation director, ...
The brusque CEO of a major French car manufacturer (Fabrice Luchini) is rushed to hospital after experiencing a major stroke. While making a reasonable physical recovery, he is left without the capacity for speech. When he tries, he instead speaks a jumble of related words - most homonyms - that see him ridiculed by strangers, ...
I usually start reviewing a film by providing a short synopsis. There is no short synopsis I can write for Godzilla vs King Ghidorah. It begins with Japan being visited by time travellers from the 23rd century. By the end history has been changed, then changed again, then changed for a third time, and in ...
Centuries after a war that almost entirely destroyed the Earth, the cyborg Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in a scrapheap and returned to working order by the cyber-doctor Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz). Suffering from total amnesia, Alita slowly becomes familiar with her new home of Iron City - and finds herself drawn into the machinations ...
