Jungle Cruise
“Jungle Cruise”
A group of adventurers embark on a grand quest to find a magical secret in the heart of the Amazon in Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise.
The Review at the End of the Universe
“Jungle Cruise”
A group of adventurers embark on a grand quest to find a magical secret in the heart of the Amazon in Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise.
John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II follows up on the landmark first entry with more trials for the Abbott family to endure while making as little noise as possible. A Quiet Place stood out because of how it approached storytelling. Without being able to use dialogue to deliver what the audience needed to know,…
The magical nanny returns to assist the Banks family in Rob Marshall’s long delayed sequel Mary Poppins Returns. Before beginning the review properly I feel it’s worth pointing out that I have no real memory for the original Mary Poppins. It’s a film I saw when I was really young and haven’t seen since so I wasn’t…
A family is forced to live in near total silence to hide from creatures that hunt by sound in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place. Right from the off it’s very clear that a lot of thought went into this film. The idea of being inhumanly quiet to survive is just the sort of high concept…
Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train adapts the novel of the same name written by Paula Hawkins. The story follows an alcoholic divorcee who finds herself caught up in a missing persons investigation. The Girl on the Train is a difficult film to review as so much hinges on the twists and turns built…
Everyone loves a prequel! No? Well, if not surely you’ll love sequels then? No? Well, never fear, welcome to first time director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War, the first prequel/sequel hybrid, a psequel if you like, that I can remember since 300: Rise of an Empire! Set before, and after, the events of 2012’s…
Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario takes a look at the constantly escalating war against drug cartels at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Sicario grips the audience right from the opening with a tense and memorable musical score that gives the audience an indication of what to expect from the experience. When this is coupled…
Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods adapts the famous stage musical of the same name and throws it onto the big screen for all to see. The basic story is that a Witch (Meryl Streep) enlists a Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) to bring her magical items from various fairy tales in order…