The Review at the End of the Universe
The Harry Potter franchise continues to expand its scope in David Yates’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them wasn’t a bad film by any stretch. It was a little sloppy and unfocused but overall it had a great deal of potential. The Harry Potter franchise has infinite scope…
I had tried to make it along to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge last week, only for the IMAX projector to break. Thus, I had believed that fate had destined this current wringing out of the franchise for the last of its pennies had missed its chance of a review, Craig having vowed…
Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers is a spin-off to his previous film Tusk and the second in what he has dubbed the “True North” trilogy. The plot is a fairly simple one and plays to Smith’s strengths as a storyteller. He follows two main characters who live a relatively mundane life until something more fantastical interrupts…
Scott Cooper’s Black Mass covers the life of Boston Gangster James Bulger (Johnny Depp) when he acted as an FBI informant from 1975 to the nineties. In theory this film is really interesting as it has different elements at play to make this a really deep story. The idea of Federal corruption around the gangland backdrop…
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…
