The Review at the End of the Universe
It’s often said that the journey is more important than the destination, and it appears that Vince Gilligan would agree. The highly anticipated and much-hyped, El Camino (released 11th Oct on Netflix), follows in the footsteps of Better Call Saul, further expanding the universe of Breaking Bad, and answers fans’ questions about what happened to…
I’ve given you my worst of the year list so I’ll end the year on a positive note with the best. 2017 was another year of change for Kneel Before Blog. The biggest change was that we switched to a star rating system for film around halfway through the year. TV will continue to be…
The story of the making of what many consider to be the worst film of all time is chronicled in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist I’ll start by addressing the biggest question that people will have before going into this film. Whether it’s essential to see The Room or not will probably inform many decisions to…
“Human Is” The Philip K. Dick anthology series Electric Dreams continues this week, offering up its sixth instalment, Human Is. An adaptation of a short story of the same name, Human Is garnered much of the pre-release hype for the series due to its casting of award-magnet Bryan Cranston in the leading role. And so with hopes sufficiently raised we…
“The Hood Maker” What can we say about Philip K. Dick? He’s one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time. His short stories inspired massive films like Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report as well as other films such as Next and The Adjustment Bureau. There are many others that would…
The Power Rangers reboot movie has been in cinemas for a while now so Craig and Chris decided to get together to talk about it. Surprisingly the conversation didn’t veer off on many tangents but there was still plenty of extra discussion on childhood toys that seem to have no name as well as some…
The 90s pop culture icon Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers gets a high budget Hollywood reboot in Dean Israelite’s Power Rangers. I’ll preface this by saying that I was a huge fan of the original series back in the day. I was the right age to be obsessed with it and watching the show defined a lot…
An uptight father butts heads with his daughter’s inappropriate internet millionaire boyfriend in John Hamburg’s Why Him? Frequent readers of this site will know that I don’t watch many comedies because the style of humour isn’t really to my taste very often. This particular one appealed to me because of Bryan Cranston. I think he…
Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator tells the true story Robert Mazur; a man who went undercover to uncover large scale drug and money laundering operations. Bryan Cranston plays Robert Mazur and his performance can’t be described as anything but magnetic. He nails every necessary beat throughout and crafts a compelling presence that you can’t help but…
Jay Roach’s Trumbo casts Bryan Cranston in the real life story of Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter who was instrumental in the end of the Hollywood Blacklist that prevented people from working due to their political beliefs. It’s a story worth telling as it was a very dark period in Hollywood and America’s history. There have…
