Mufasa: The Lion King Movie Review
In that respect, it’s a success as the visuals are spectacular and the action sequences are very effective at getting across the physicality of that world. It’s some of the creative choices in the storytelling aspect that leave the work open for the audience to be taken out of the zone. One element that goes against its hyperrealism is having the warthog voiced by Seth Rogen break the fourth wall.
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His jokes make reference to a modern world and this is jarring in the ...
Rumours Movie Review
How crazy you might ask. Well, there are wanking zombies who put out fires with the climax of a circle jerk, an adjunct who climbs on top of a giant brain and self-immolates herself and Cate Blanchett with one of the worst faux German accents ever put to film. Oh, and the leader of Canada sports the type of ironic man bun that would put any barista to shame.
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The seven leaders of the free world are presented as almost petulant children and it’s funny to see them ...
Latency Movie Review
She receives a prototype video game controller to test, which she hopes will enhance her gameplay. It uses technology that taps directly into her brain and speeds up her play to previously unknown speeds. She uses it to help her win a quarter million dollars in prize money from an online competition.
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As the device exponentially expands her gaming abilities, it also injects itself into her thought process and cognitive skills. This expansion blurs the lines of her ...
Moana 2 Movie Review
It shines a light on the richness inherent in many Polynesian cultures and does so with a real sense of joy. Having a voice cast with multicultural backgrounds also adds to its appeal. It even sells (almost) the consummate professional Dwayne Johnson as capable of delivering a musical number, it’s kind of charming.
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We pick up the story with Moana (Auli'i Cravalho) returning to her home island after an adventure at sea where she discovers a relic that gives her ...
Your Monster Movie Review
Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera) is an actor/singer/dancer working her trade in the live theatre world. Her boyfriend Jacob Sullivan (Edmund Donovan) is an aspiring playwright. Together they are working on a play that puts women front and centre. When Laura gets cancer, Jacob supports her at first but then chooses the selfish route and abandons her in her time of need.
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When she gets to leave the hospital after a surgery, she returns to her now-empty mother’s home. She ...
Wicked Movie Review
Most will be familiar with the tie-in with The Wizard Of Oz as it’s set in the Land of Oz before events that take place in the original movie. It tells the life and death story (in two parts) of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, played by Tony Award-winning singer/actor/songwriter Cynthia Erivo. Pop princess Ariana Grande plays her frienemie Glinda in a role that provides most of the film’s comic moments.
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Being loosely based on the 1995 novel of the same ...
Goodrich Movie Review
The knocks keep adding up and Andy is forced to reprioritise his life. His previous efforts were full of focus on his business and its successes with little left for his wife and children. He soon begins to realise his absenteeism has deprived himself and those around him of the joys that can happen in everyday life.
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This is all a fairly standard setup, script-wise but what happens as things unfold is anything but by the numbers. Situations and their end results ...
Gladiator II Movie Review
The story circles back on itself and tells a tale not unlike the Russell Crowe-led version. We are introduced to Lucius (Paul Mescal) an honourable man very much in love with his wife. When the Romans attack his province he and his wife turn out to be warriors and travel to the coast to ward off the boat-bound invaders. The attack is led by Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal).
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During the battle, Lucius suffers a horrible loss and vows revenge on Marcus Acacius. He is ...
Piper Movie Review
Elizabeth “Oh Behave” Hurley stars as Liz Haines, a teacher who moves to Hamelin, Germany with her daughter Mia (Mia Jenkins) to take up a post at a local school. Once settling in the small Saxon town, strange things start to happen. It seems Mia has to pay for her mother’s transgressions. The details of which will be revealed as the story develops.
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Casting Hurley as the main adult in the cast brings with it a few preconceived notions. She really is limited ...
2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival – Blitz Movie Review
Even though The Blitz lasted a little over eight months, the indiscriminate nature of the bombs that fell on London during that time struck terror into the hearts of its citizens. The bombs indiscriminately killed men, women and children and the UK government began a program to send the children (sans parents) to points North for their safety.
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Young George played by newcomer Elliott Heffernan is a precocious child from a mixed-race couple. The now single-parent ...
