I have always rather liked the Hollywood term ‘multi-hyphenate’. Usually used by journalists for Variety or the Hollywood Reporter, it refers to those particularly talented types who undertake more than two roles in a film production. Not just an actor-director, or … Continue reading REVIEW: Something in the Dirt (2022)
Over the course of the Gamera film series, the individual films continued to make a profit while the studio that made them, Daiei Film, sank closer and closer towards bankruptcy. It was shortly after the completion of this seventh Gamera that Daiei’s finances finally … Continue reading REVIEW: Gamera vs Zigra (1971)
It has been a few months since Wakanda Forever was released, and so here we are again: another season, another “phase”, and another Marvel Studios feature. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the third in Marvel’s Ant-Man series, which to date has been … Continue reading REVIEW: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
I was overseas when Marvel Studios’ most recent theatrical release came out, but it is available now on physical media and Disney+, and I have at last found the time to watch Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The original Black Panther managed to … Continue reading REVIEW: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Yeon Sang-ho has become a genre filmmaker well worth watching, most famously through his 2016 global hit Train to Busan but also its live-action sequel Peninsula (2020) and animated prequel Seoul Station (2016), cult work The King of Pigs (2011), and 2020 Netflix series Hellbound. Netflix is … Continue reading REVIEW: JUNG_E (2023)
In a near future when human civilization is entirely powered by solar energy, the Earth’s sun suddenly vanishes from the sky. As temperatures across the planet plummet, and the atmosphere begins to dissipate, freelance astronomer Sun Yang (Zhang Jue) and … Continue reading REVIEW: Last Sunrise (2019)
The problem with Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall is not that it is silly; we have all come to terms with the ridiculous nature of his disaster pictures a long time ago. The problem is that it is rather boring. The cataclysmic ‘disaster porn’ … Continue reading REVIEW: Moonfall (2022)
Part Six There is much that could be discussed over the series finale of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but to be honest it all feels secondary to the Obi-Wan-versus-Vader duel that dominates it. It is, in almost all respects, the perfect climax. … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.06
“Part Five” Since Obi-Wan Kenobi started streaming on Disney+, it has been explained by Lucasfilm that the six-part serial is based on the same storyline intended some years ago for a feature film. The film never eventuated, of course, but … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.05
I have written in the past about how the announcement of James Cameron’s The Abyss triggered a mad rush of competing film projects, each intended to profit from audience expectations by getting their own cheaper undersea thrillers into theatres first. Of … Continue reading REVIEW: Deepstar Six (1989)
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