Masters Of The Universe Movie Review
We catch Adam Glenn (Artie Wilkinson-Hunt) way before he becomes He-Man or an orphan. His planet, Eternia, is an idyllic place, and he is the son of King Randor (James Purefoy). Into this garden come a marauding pack of miscreants headed by Skeletor. Jared Leto is unrecognisable as the main villain with the heavy makeup and electronically manipulated voice. He also provides the film with its most misguided character.
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Through circumstance, Adam (now played by ...
Finding Emily Movie Review
The male lead, Owen (Spike Fearn - he of heavy accent and bad Beatles bob), plays a hopeless romantic who comes into contact with Emily Raine (Angourie Rice), a psychology student trying her best to prove her thesis that love makes you crazy. Together, they try to find the mysterious Emily, a girl Owen met at a nightclub who gave him an incomplete phone number.
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In their attempts to locate said girl, they shake a hornet's nest and create an on-campus social media ...
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu Movie Review
The simplification of the storyline is also reflected in the pace. This new chapter feels more like an action film than anything else. It starts with a set piece that is more John Wick in Outer Space than an exercise in the dynamics of corporate greed. Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’s original story was intended to be season four of the TV show, but the Hollywood writer’s strike changed the studio’s plans. The end result, however, still feels episodic.
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In The Grey Movie Review
The bedrock of the film is provided by the bromance between its two male leads, Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill, think Sherlock Holmes and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Their complete and utter competence powers the action scenes, but at times this can take a bit of the suspense away. Nothing gets by these two, and the end result can sometimes feel a given.
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The story is set in the International world of banking and, of course, the seedy world of global crime. Manny Salazar ...
The Sheep Detectives Movie Review
Hugh Jackman is the shepherd George Hardy, who loves his herd almost too much and dislikes almost all humans. His love is so strong that he has given them all names and treats them like his children. He even reads to them nightly from his collection of detective novels. While the sheep can converse with each other, the humans only hear the baas.
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When George meets an early and untimely end and the police prove incompetent, the sheep have to pitch in and help the authorities. ...
Michael Movie Review
The desire of the filmmakers to keep the musical element of the legend intact and to keep the unsavoury elements of the story so far from the viewers' minds as to be non-existent is complete. Even the patriarch of the Jackson clan, Joe, is given a relatively smooth ride. This, unfortunately, reduces the story to a one-dimensional misreading of the facts.
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That Michael could overcome such a harsh upbringing (for such a sensitive soul) and create the joy that he ...
They Will Kill You Movie Review
Asia Reeves (Zazie Beetz) and her sister Maria (Myha’la) have an abusive father. When things reach a flash point, Asia ends up in jail, and Maria returns to the care of her father. After a decade in prison, Asia is released and finds employment working as a maid in The Virgil, an exclusive high-rise apartment building in New York City. During her first night there, the crazy comes out to play.
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Asia is accosted by things that make no literal sense, and she runs ...
Hoppers Movie Review
Set in the city of Beaverton, we are introduced to Mabel Tanaka (voiced by Piper Curda as a teenager and Lila Liu as a child), who spends her youth with her kind Grandmother (Karen Huie). Through her influence, Mabel learns to love the land and relate to the fauna of the area, especially a colony of beavers. It is an idyllic upbringing and leaves a lasting impression.
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After losing her Gran, she is adrift until she is given a cause by the actions of the town’s ...
Project Hail Mary Movie Review
Intentionally disorienting from its opening scene. It takes you mid-film and then stretches out in both directions from there. You are introduced to a bearded and dishevelled Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), surrounded by technology that is a mystery to him. As his wits return, he discovers he is alone and on a spaceship in the outer regions of the universe.
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As the non-linear storyline progresses, you discover Ryland was at one time a lowly high school science teacher ...
Anemone Movie Review
The film is beautifully crafted with an amazing visual aesthetic. The drone shots are particularly impressive at establishing the out in the wilderness feel. The sound design is also noteworthy, as no matter how lush and green the visuals are, there is an edginess imparted through the music used as the film score. It is noisey post-rock in nature and emanates almost entirely from the side speakers in the cinema. This acts to never lets you relax into mere travelogue mode.
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