The Review at the End of the Universe
A group of boys compete in a grueling contest where a minimum walking speed must be maintained to stay alive in Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk. Dystopian fiction thrives on the tension between the ordinary and the impossible. The Long Walk takes that tension and distils it into a brutal high concept premise: fifty teenage…
Moonfall
The Moon’s orbit shifts, sending it on a collision course with Earth and threatening to wipe out all life in Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall.
Ridley Scott tells the true life tail of the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the drama that ensued when a ransom demand was issues to his billionaire grandfather in All the Money in the World. I’ll start by addressing the production issues that this film had. Ridley Scott was under a tight deadline when…
