The Review at the End of the Universe
Alien Day is once again upon us so traditionally that means another podcast. This year we discuss Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem. We contemplate the failure to set up characters, visual darkness and whether the film is a front for money laundering. Craig can be found on this very site and over on Podcast 616 on…
Netflix surprises viewers with a new entry in the mysterious Cloverfield franchise with Julius Onah’s outer space thriller The Cloverfield Paradox. I’d happily go on record saying that I really like the Cloverfield franchise. Before this entry it consisted of two movies that don’t seem to connect to each other unless you read lots of…
Three old men decide to rob the bank involved in the deal that sees them deprived of their jobs as well as their hard earned pensions in Zach Braff’s Going in Style. Heist movies are fairly common things to find at the cinema. There’s are certain things you can always expect to see and 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…
Craig Gillespie’s The Finest Hours is the fictionalised account of a true life tale involving the Coast Guard’s daring rescue of the crew of a doomed oil tanker in 1952. I’m not overly familiar with this story but that doesn’t really matter for the purposes of this film as it should hold together in how…
