Heart of the Beast Movie Review
Pitt plays James Belmont, a grizzled military veteran with as many mental scars as those that cover his body. His only companion is Odin, a German Shepherd who is himself a retired military combat dog. He too wears the scars of war with titanium teeth and a prosthetic leg. Odin also suffers from PTSD and has nightmares. Their bond is an unbreakable one forged in battle.
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The story begins with Belmont and Odin flying a small aircraft to an incredibly beautiful and isolated ...
Win tickets to The Social Reckoning – coming to Aussie cinemas October 8!
A companion piece to the hit film The Social Network, Sorkin’s original screenplay is based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files.
The film is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.
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Resident Evil Movie Review
The film's gratuitous gore is also more creepy than scary, and it brings to mind John Carpenter’s 1982 classic The Thing. The look of the film with its saturated colours and minimal sets also fits comfortably within the retro-genre, as does its pace. Its short ninety-minute running time is used to maximum effect, and there is no extraneous exposition.
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We start things with Austin Abrams of The Walking Dead and Euphoria fame playing courier Bryan Hodukavich, who is delive...
Coyote vs. Acme Movie Review
Those wild gadgets would alway carry the Acme label, and the brand suffered from extreme quality-control issues. They never worked as advertised, and those products inform the story here. The film starts with a bit of industrial maleficence and then jumps to some Road Runner versus Coyote action. It looks magnificent on the big screen and sets the visual tone for what follows.
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The mix of live action and cartoon characters has been done before (think Who Framed Roger Rabbit) ...
Don’t Look Back in Anger Movie Review
The first question is: does this hybrid documentary/concert film turn one’s mind around on two of the least appealing blokes in Rock and Roll? With a partially affirmative answer, we are off to the races. Back in the early nineties it was hard to miss the impact of Oasis. Their anthemic songs blared out of almost every radio, and bands covering their songs in pubs only added to the cacophony.
The music press (and large numbers of conventional media outlets) were awash with tales of their ...
Practical Magic 2 Movie Review
Also returning are Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest as the elder Owens, and the youngsters are now played by Joey King and Maisie Williams. The story revolves around the family curse that means any family member who falls in love will see their partner die a horrible and early death. This is such a buzzkill that Sally (Bullock) has gone out of her way to keep the family secret (that they are witches) and the curse from her two daughters. She has also stopped her practice of magic.
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The End of Oak Street Movie Review
Writer/director David Robert Mitchell continues his fascination with American suburbia with a Science Fiction yarn that involves dinosaurs and time portals. The story is also a bit of a throwback with its presentation of danger. As the Thunder Lizards and their ilk ramp up their occupational numbers, the violence inherent in their ways is played mostly for comic effect.
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A-list actors Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor are given roles in which their lives are mired in ...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Movie Review
This latest chapter is the fourth Spidey film with Tom Holland in the lead, and he continues to give the character a more human ethos than just about any other superhero of note. He is affected by self-doubts and the sacrifices he had to make to keep his friends safe. This continues to lead him down the road to a fairly lonely existence. Brand New Day ultimately addresses that and gives more than a glimmer of hope.
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The isolation he feels because of Dr Stephen Strange's ...
The Odyssey Movie Review
Most will be familiar with the heroic tale of the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, and his journey home after fighting in the ten-year-long Trojan War; even those who are fuzzy on the fine details will remember the hollow horse. A blend of the harsh realities of the time mixed with a plethora of fantastical monsters and supernatural hazards leaves the film palette wide open for the imagination to run rampant. The current state of industrial technology also helps expand ...
Moana Movie Review
Dwayne Johnson AKA the Rock, returns as the demigod Maui, and this time he arrives with a head full of luxurious locks! He and Catherine have an easy and very modern rapport, and their riffing off each other provides the film’s backbone of humour. Jemaine Clement continues to inhabit the visage of the giant monster coconut crab, Tamatoa, and the look is bedazzled and spectacularly over-the-top.
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Even though this work is considered live action, the majority of the ...
