Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
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 ...
A police officer in a northern Chinese city is the sole survivor of a horrifying shoot-out that leaves both criminals and his fellow officers dead. Five years later, he is an alcoholic security guard. A former colleague drags him back into the fold when his last police case, long thought closed, suddenly swings open with ...
