Spanish Film Festival 2025 – El 47 Movie Review
These transplanted communities were improvised and garnered few in the government that really cared about their plight. In the heart of this world, we meet Manolo Vital (Eduard Fernández) a man with a pronounced sense of empathy who rallies the people around him to improve their plight in life.
From extremely humble beginnings we then catch up with Manolo twenty years later. His lot in life has improved but his local community is still ignored by the local government and lacks almost ...
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina Movie Review
Starting with part 2 they expanded the Wick Universe by creating a concept called the High Table with its arcane rules and extreme sense of justice. This has gone some way to supplying a backbone to the story arc and they have leaned into this in every film since. With Ballerina it barely generates a mention and it’s a sad absence because this work is very light on dynamics and story.
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Ana de Armas is fine as the main character Eve and her ability in the fight ...
Unit 234 The Lock Up Movie Review
Now flying solo running her storage unit complex, she does what anyone in her place on a rainy night would do, veg out in front of a screen and snack out. Her downtime comes to an end when she discovers a body handcuffed to a gurney in a storage unit and so begins a night of terror.
Soon a creepy older man Jules (Don Johnson) arrives at the front desk trying to gain access to a unit that is clearly not his. It’s the one that contains the body. She sends him packing but he soon returns ...
Karate Kid: Legends Movie Review
Ben Wang is outstanding as the new young lead and his innate reserve and charm make him a hero very easy to get behind. Having Jackie Chan as his mentor this time goes a long way to overcome the sadness of Pat Morita’s passing and the return of the original kid Ralph Macchio offers a pleasant bit of sentimentality.
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The story this time is set in New York and as always, the great city and its people play an important role and provide both colourful characters and ...
The Phoenician Scheme Movie Review
The story is almost entirely built around the strange life of Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) and he features in nearly every scene. He is a rich and powerful industrialist with a bent moral compass. Through a lifetime of questionable dealings with friends and foes alike, he has acquired a large number of enemies whose attempts to assassinate him drive the film’s comic overview.
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Most of these attempts happen while in flight so it’s a given you wouldn’t want ...
Lilo & Stitch Movie Review
Newcomer Maia Kealoha plays Lilo, an outsider mourning the loss of both her parents while living with her sister Nani (Sydney Agudong). She is a precocious little girl whose behaviour and manner borders on the annoying but you can see the inherent goodness underneath. When the outcast blue alien Stitch comes into her life, it’s a perfect match.
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The fact that both are troublemakers and free spirits plays into the film’s central theme of not judging people ...
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Movie Review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning brings the current series to a close and provides a rousing finish. Everything is ramped up to eleven and It pushes improbable to preposterous and remains overdriven throughout its entire 169 minute running time. It barely pauses for a breath. The main characters are firmly defined by now and show minimal growth. There is also a curious lack of humour shown as that break in intensity would have helped with the peak energy moments.
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German Film Festival 2025 – I Want It All: Hildegard Knef Movie Review
In her teens she studied acting and that passion to entertain fuelled her life and livelihood for the rest of her days. Her story is one of the brutalities of enduring cancer (and its many surgeries) and the judgemental whims of the conservative times. She acted in German films and post-war was contracted to an American studio that had no idea of what to do with her. Music was an important driver of her success and provided a singing career that transcended acting and lasted throughout her ...
Dale Frank Nobody’s Sweetie Movie Review
The film gives you snapshots of his life. His move to Europe and his artistic output then that coincided with the Punk movement in England during the Thatcher years. His slow integration into the upper echelon of the Australian art world, the socioeconomic realities of the eighties and a late-in-life diagnosis of Autism that was a major revelation.
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Throughout it all he just kept creating art. The film includes an amazing selection of his works as still images and ...
Thunderbolts* Movie Review
The fact that the MCU regular regulars are mostly absent only reinforces the change in direction. Florence Pugh as family member Yelena tries her best to carry the film and it’s great to see a not-so-perfect woman be the heart and soul of the work. Comic interludes also play a large role in establishing the newish feel.
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The big evil this time is a bit hard to categorise and the two characters actor Lewis Pullman plays, Robert Reynolds or Bob and Sentry are two ...
