The Review at the End of the Universe
2017 was another year of change for Kneel Before Blog. The biggest change was that we switched to a star rating system for film around halfway through the year. TV will continue to be rated out of 10 but films will be rated on a scale of 1-5 stars as is the accepted standard for…
Stephen King’s celebrated book series receives the big screen treatment in Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower. I’ll start off by saying that I know almost nothing about The Dark Tower in any form. I know it’s a series of books that a lot of people rave about but beyond that my knowledge of it is…
If you’ve been along to any movie of note in the last couple of months you’ll likely have been assaulted on more than one occasion with the trailers for director Stephen Gaghan’s (Syriana, Abandon) new project Gold. A brash Eighties flavoured vehicle for Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar, Dallas Buyer’s Club), the trailers seem to promise a fairly…
A theatre owning Koala comes up with the idea to host a singing competition to bring interest back to his failing business in Christophe Lourdelet and Garth Jennings’ Sing. It’s American Idol or X-Factor -depending where you happen to live- with animals. Now that this is out of the way I can talk about how…
“Maybe Tomorrow” In fairly surreal fashion, True Detective episode three begins with a musical number – Conway Twitty’s version of “The Rose” – inside Ray Velcoro’s head. Could these be the last flashes of electricity dancing through his dying brain? He’s at his usual seat at the bar; his own personal purgatory. Seated across from…
“Night Finds You” True Detective episode two opens with an exploration of Frank Semyon’s psyche. He’s lying awake in the hours just before dawn, contemplating the water stains on the ceiling of his bedroom. As we learn from his confession to his wife Jordan (Kelly Reilly), these remind him of a childhood trauma, experienced at…
“The Western Book of the Dead” Nic Pizzolatto’s brooding crime drama True Detective returned on Sunday for its second season, with an entirely new cast and location. This time around we’re leaving behind the bayous of Louisiana for the industrial sprawl of California. Season 1 was incredibly well received and much of this hinged on…
Christopher Nolan’s sci fi epic Interstellar hits UK cinemas. Matthew McConaughey’s Joseph A. Cooper goes on an unprecedented voyage to the other side of the universe via a wormhole to look for solutions to the problem of Earth being unable to sustain the human race any more. Due to the nature of this film and…
