The Review at the End of the Universe
DC offers up another animated adventure in Sam Liu’s Batman and Harley Quinn. Despite being a fan of the DC Animated movies I’ve never actually written about them. The overall quality of them is somewhat mixed but I enjoy them for the most part. Adapting DC’s back catalogue of stories in animated form is a…
A bodyguard is tasked with protecting a notorious Hitman so that he can be brought safely to testify against a dangerous criminal in Patrick Hughes’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard. This is one of those films where the plot doesn’t matter in the least. Any story the film has is an excuse for the main actors to…
The King of the Monsters receives a new Japanese reboot in Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s giant monster reboot Shin Godzilla. Godzilla is one of the most enduring fictional characters ever to be captured on film with over 30 Japanese feature films, two American versions and a number of animated series as well as Marvel…
An undercover CIA agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to recover a list of double agents in David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde. The first thing that stands out about this film is the sense of style. A Germany divided by the Berlin Wall is faithfully recreated in a way that almost makes the…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit delivers a snapshot of the Detroit Rebellion by largely focusing on a specific event in 1967. The event in question was the murder of three young African American men in the Algiers Motel. A large part of the film takes place in the Algiers Motel and details the terrifying situation that had…
Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets explores a sprawling, intricately designed science fiction universe through the eyes of two government law enforcement officers. On this surface this film is really standard stuff as the main plot revolves around space cops trying to solve a broadly uninteresting mystery that holds the key…
A “Meh” Emoji struggles with being different when he is identified as a malfunction once his ability to express different emotions is identified in Tony Leondis’ The Emoji Movie. This film takes place largely inside the phone of a teenage boy where Emojis wait patiently to be used and have their likenesses sent to other people….
Vacationing sisters have their holiday turn deadly when they find themselves trapped in a cage at the bottom of the ocean with dwindling air and circling Sharks to contend with in Johannes Roberts’ 47 Meters Down. Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt) are sisters with opposite personalities. The cautious label is placed on Lisa…
Michael Showalter tells the true life tale of a mixed race relationship that weathers cultural differences and a serious illness in The Big Sick. There are a lot of striking things about this love story such as the lead being played by the man who experienced it. Kumail Nanjiana plays himself in the fictionalised account…
Christopher Nolan tells the true life tale of the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation also known as “Operation Dynamo” where nearly 400,000 soldiers were successfully evacuated in Dunkirk. The scale of this event makes it tricky to commit to film since it took place over a relatively large period of time and involved many different moving parts…
