The Review at the End of the Universe
The X-Men find themselves faced with a threat from within when one of their own gains unimaginable power that they are unable to control in Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It has been 19 years since the release of Bryan Singer’s X-Men; a film that would end up having a significant contribution to the superhero…
A man on a trip to a new planet wakes up decades too early and has to contemplate life alone in the black silence of space in Morten Tyldum’s Passengers. On the surface, this seems like a fairly workable concept. People dealing with isolation is nothing new in films and can be done really well…
Bryan Singer gives us another dose of Mutant Mayhem with X-Men: Apocalypse; an entry that tries to be bigger than any X-Men film that we’ve had before. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing as sequels are designed to raise the stakes in such a way that the challenge feels different to the one in the…
David O. Russell’ Joy stars Jennifer Lawrence as the titular character based on the real world figure Joy Mangano who rose to the head of a powerful business empire with a simple idea. It sounds like it should be a really difficult story to tell and in many ways it is. There are so many…
Finally it’s over. The Hunger Games franchise comes to an end with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 where Katniss and the rest of her band of rebels take the fight to the Capitol to change the world once and for all. Some of you may remember my review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part…
The film adaptation of the final Hunger Games novel Mockingjay begins here with part 1 of a 2 part story set to round off the series. Doing things this way is becoming something of a trend among Young Adult franchises to pretty mixed results thus far. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pioneered this approach…
Serena is the story of George (Bradley Cooper) and Serena Pemberton (Jennifer Lawrence), newlyweds who run a timber company in Carolina in the 1920s. Their relationship and the story in general becomes complicated when it’s revealed that Serena cannot bear children. George is the stereotypical period man’s man who is strong and into manly things…
Bryan Singer returns to the franchise he created with X-Men: Days of Future Past and basically proves that he should never have left in the first place. This film adapts the famous Chris Claremont comic book story Days of Future Past and unites both eras of cinematic X-Men characters in a way that is both…
