Produced by 20th Century Fox, then bought out by Disney and lost in the COVID-19 pandemic is The Empty Man, a visually striking blend of missing-person thriller and folk horror. At one point this film was set for an Australian theatrical … Continue reading REVIEW: The Empty Man (2020)
The Walt Disney Animation Studio, pound for pound the most reliable entertainment bet in Hollywood, has struck gold again with Raya and the Last Dragon. This beautifully presented fantasy adventure should be a good bet to revive the fortunes of movie … Continue reading REVIEW: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Films based around time loops seem more prevalent in recent years than ever: whether done for dramatic purposes, to stimulate horror films, or just to be funny, stories of people trapped re-living the same day over and over seem to … Continue reading REVIEW: Boss Level (2021)
It is remarkable, 13 years after launching with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, just how far Marvel Studios have come in producing film and television content out of their stable of comic book characters. These days it all forms an inter-related network … Continue reading REVIEW: The Incredible Hulk (2008)
If a film purports to be based on a true story, but features a man being abducted by aliens, does that make it a drama or a science fiction film? After all, science fiction inherently requires an element of science-based … Continue reading REVIEW: Fire in the Sky (1993)
The short version: Benson and Moorhead’s Spring (2014) is an excellent independent film, and absolutely worth watching if you are either a fan of their other works (The Endless and Synchronic are their two most recent films) or a fan of independent genre … Continue reading REVIEW: Spring (2014)
The requirements for a good sequel are fairly clear. The audience wants more of the same, but they also want something different. A change of tone, a progression of the characters, a raise in stake, or whatever transformation a filmmaker … Continue reading REVIEW: The Expendables 2 (2012)
Biographical pictures are a dime a dozen in Hollywood; much less common is the autobiographical picture, in which a filmmaker adapts events of their own lives. It must require a major ego to film one’s own life for a paying … Continue reading REVIEW: All That Jazz (1979)
It is easy to simply glance at a film like Power Rangers and skip over it completely, and in all honesty there is nothing wrong with that plan. It is a remake of a television series adaptation of another television series, none of … Continue reading REVIEW: Power Rangers (2017)
Ric Roman Waugh’s Greenland emerges as 2021’s first major surprise: yet another large-scale disaster movie, it leaps head-and-shoulders above its genre to become the strongest film of its type since Michael Bay’s Armageddon back in 1998. On the same day that it becomes … Continue reading REVIEW: Greenland (2020)
