The Review at the End of the Universe
The MonsterVerse delivers the one on one brawl we’ve all been waiting for in Adam Wingard’s Godzilla Vs. Kong. On the surface the Monstererse should be great. It tells stories about iconic Japanese monsters such as Godzilla and uses state of the art visual effects to render them in detail beyond the imagination of those…
John Michael McDonagh is a director of some previous note. His first work in the big chair, The Guard, took triple its modest $6 million production budget, and his subsequent film, Cavalry, was a critical success, picking up several nominations for its cast and crew, even winning a Best Actor award at the British Independent Film…
David Yates’ The Legend of Tarzan brings back the most adapted character in history for a new adventure. The twist with this one is that it’s set after the Tarzan stories have already happened so it seems to want to do its own thing. Think Hook but with more Apes. It’s a good idea. Most…
Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an adaptation of a novel by Phoebe Gloeckner chronicling the story of a young girl who tries to grow up too fast. The film wastes no time dropping the audience right in the thick of it with the opening line from Bel Powley’s Minnie being “I…
Phillip Noyce directs The Giver, an adaptation of the Lois Lowry novel of the same name. In a seemingly perfect society where there is no war or conflict of any kind, no pain or suffering at the expense of choice; a young man named Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) is chosen to take on the role of…
