On paper Thinner seems set up for success. It is based on a Stephen King novel, is directed by Fright Night‘s Tom Holland, and written by Holland with Beetlejuice‘s Michael McDowell. As anyone who has ever failed at making dinner will tell you … Continue reading REVIEW: Thinner (1996)
Almost all videogame movies are crap, goes the general sentiment. Since the early 1990s popular cinema has been littered with the corpses of failed blockbusters, murdered by audiences after being poorly equipped and armed by numerous production companies, studios, and … Continue reading REVIEW: Uncharted (2022)
It has long become clear that Marvel Studios’ specific brand of shared universe feature films really work under their own rules. Fans of the comic book-inspired franchise may have bristled when Martin Scorsese famously noted ‘that’s not cinema’, but to … Continue reading REVIEW: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Major Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) expects to be handed a military assignment, only to be sent to Bolivia by the Royal Geographic Society to chart more detailed maps. While in the jungle Fawcett witnesses signs of an undiscovered civilization – … Continue reading REVIEW: The Lost City of Z (2016)
In a world where magic gave way to suburbia, two teenage brothers – Ian (Tom Holland) and Barley (Chris Pratt) – go on a quest in order to bring back their father for one day. Onward is the latest feature … Continue reading REVIEW: Onward (2020)
In the aftermath of the events of Avengers: Endgame, a grieving Peter Parker (Tom Holland) must cope with the death of his mentor as well as a gap of five years between dying along with half of the Earth’s population … Continue reading REVIEW: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
After helping Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) fight Captain America during the superhero ‘civil war’, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returns to his life of high school and crime-fighting as Spider-Man. When he crosses paths with the illegal arms merchant Adrian … Continue reading REVIEW: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
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