The Review at the End of the Universe
There are evil things hiding in the dark in David F. Sandberg’s Light Out where a family are terrorised by a foe who attacks when the lights are off. Pretty much everyone will have had a fear of the dark at some point in their lives. This makes for perfect horror film fodder as most…
Frustrated mothers go wild in Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s comedy Bad Moms where life just gets too much for three mothers feeling smothered by their responsibilities. The film follows Amy (Mila Kunis), a mother of two in her thirties who never really got to experience being young and carefree. It is established early on…
Suicide Squad is a film that was seen and reviewed by yours truly (Craig) but there was a lot more that had to be said about it so me and Kat teamed up to have a discussion about it and get the whole thing out of our system. Kat is a first time contributor to…
David Lowery brings the Disney classic Pete’s Dragon to a new generation in this modern re-imagining that blazes it’s own trail. I have very little memory for the original Pete’s Dragon but I do know that I have seen it at some point. For me it’s one of those mainstays that doesn’t really stick in…
It’s woman vs. nature as Blake Lively takes on a Great White Shark in Jaume Collet-Serra’s survival thriller The Shallows. On the surface -water pun definitely intended- the concept feels completely unoriginal with the potential to veer into very silly territory. How many shark movies have we seen since Jaws? How many of them have…
Henry Jost and Ariel Schulman try to show audiences what goes on when young people are buried in their phone screens seemingly ignorant of all that is going on around them in their dare themed thriller Nerve. I must admit that it saddens me to use the term “young people” in the introduction to this…
The DC Extended Universe continues with David Ayer’s villain team-up Suicide Squad. The basic premise is that some of the worst villains the DC Universe has to offer are brought together to form a team to defend against the growing potential for super powered threats. On the surface this sounds like an amazing idea. Getting…
Matt Damon reunites with director Paul Greengrass to bring the amnesiac super soldier back to cinemas in Jason Bourne; the fifth -though one was a spinoff- film in the series. For the longest time, Matt Damon insisted that there was no story to tell and later he said he would only return if Paul Greengrass…
Steven Spielberg brings the Roald Dahl classic, The BFG into the world of live action with an adaptation faithful to the original story. Steven Spielberg seems to be the perfect director to bring a Roald Dahl story to life considering that he is able to capture the imagination in similar ways through a very different…
You will all be aware of the controversy surrounding Paul Feig’s (Spy, Bridesmaids) reboot/reimagining/rehash of Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters. In our age of the internet, where trolls can shout abuse from the sidelines with impunity, and folks can get their backs up at the smallest imagined slight, the trailer for this movie became the most…
