The Jungle Book

Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book is the latest of Disney’s live action updates to their classic animated movies after Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella. The story is that a young boy named Mowgli (Neel Sethi) is forced to leave the family of wolves that raised him when his life is threatened by a merciless tiger named Shere…

The Walk

Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk is a fictionalised telling of the amazing feat performed by French high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) when he illegally put a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and walked across it. This particular story was the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary Man…

Self/Less

Tarsem Singh’s Self/Less explores the idea of being able to switch bodies at the point of death and live your life all over again while questioning what the human cost of that might be. This film has a solid high concept science fiction idea that is rife for exploring and starts out pretty well. It…