John Hillcoat’s Triple 9 (2016) mixes good ideas and bad. It is well-cast and slickly directed, but it is also messily written. In many ways it is a solid pastiche: part-James Ellroy, part-Training Day, and part-Grand Theft Auto V. It also subverts … Continue reading REVIEW: Triple 9 (2016)
It is a decade after we last saw the pseudonymous zombie outbreak survivor Colombus (Jesse Eisenberg) and his travelling companions. Man-child Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) is busy appointing himself President of the United States. Columbus and Wichita (Emma Stone) are settling … Continue reading REVIEW: Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Several years after the near-collapse of human civilization, the evolved chimpanzee Caesar (Andy Serkis) defends his community of apes from the human army that is hunting them down. When his wife and son are murdered by a human Colonel (Woody … Continue reading REVIEW: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
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