Supergirl Movie Review
The Australian connections run deep with this film as both director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya and Cruella) and Supergirl herself, Milly Alcock (House Of The Dragon), are from the land down under. The Antipodes approach permeates the feel of the film, and this outsider attitude unfortunately misses as much as it hits. There are also some strange thematic choices that bleed some of the interest away.
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They introduce Krypto the Superdog early, and his presence in one of the few ...
Minions & Monsters Movie Review
Starting with a wonderful animated homage to the groundbreaking work of Charles Chaplin, this sets things off in a unique way. Old-school fans will pick up on the references to films like Modern Times and The Great Dictator, while the rest of the audience will hopefully react with a smile. There is a purity of intent in giving a nod to the past that runs counter to most American animated output.
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There is also risk in having the majority of the language being used sounding ...
Disclosure Day Movie Review
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The main theme is a well-used one, that aliens have been visiting Earth for decades, and the truth is being kept from the public by the US government and in a slight departure, aided this time by an evil multinational corporation. Curiously, Spielberg’s approach highlights only modern events and completely ignores those other alien breeding grounds like the Egyptian and both the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. Too much of a good thing, I guess.
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The structure of ...
2026 HSBC Spanish & Latin American Film Festival – A Loose End Movie Review
It starts with two mysterious people in a car talking about astrology, who soon spot a lone pedestrian walking down the street and run him down. It’s out of character violence is never to return, and the sense of urgent provocation is replaced by a sense of mystery as to what the collective tissue is that binds these divergent people together.
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This Spanish film is a co-production between Uruguay, Argentina and Spain and is a work that is sprinkled with elements ...
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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The ...
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 ...
