The Review at the End of the Universe
An undercover CIA agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to recover a list of double agents in David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde. The first thing that stands out about this film is the sense of style. A Germany divided by the Berlin Wall is faithfully recreated in a way that almost makes the…
The recently Christened Monsterverse delivers its second entry with Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island which marks the return of the iconic giant ape last seen in Peter Jackson’s 2005 film King Kong. I wasn’t a fan of Godzilla. Despite its beautiful cinematography and exciting monster fight sequences the general experience was a dud so I…
Kevin Munroe and Jerrica Cleland’s Ratchet & Clank is the latest attempt to put a video game on the big screen by telling the origin story of how the titular characters came to be inseparable partners. Being a gamer sometimes I have played the Ratchet & Clank video games now and again and have generally…
Dan Trachtenberg’s 10 Cloverfield Lane is a very difficult film to talk about as the marketing has had any real details about the film cloaked in absolute secrecy so I’ll try not to talk in specifics throughout this review. I’ll start by saying that people looking for a sequel to the 2008 found footage monster…
The Gambler focuses on Literature professor Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg, as an aside his character in Ted is called John Bennett. I just thought that was worth mentioning) who lives a secret life as a high stakes gambler and has hit a streak of bad luck. His extensive debt causes him to borrow money from…
