The Review at the End of the Universe
David Yates’ The Legend of Tarzan brings back the most adapted character in history for a new adventure. The twist with this one is that it’s set after the Tarzan stories have already happened so it seems to want to do its own thing. Think Hook but with more Apes. It’s a good idea. Most…
Based on the stage play, Radio Luxembourg by Mick Donnellan; Simon Dixon’s Tiger Raid follows two mercenaries in an unspecified Middle Eastern location on a morally questionable mission. The important thing here isn’t the details of the plot. They are kept really ambiguous. I assume the reason for this is to not have the film…
Brian Cox stars as a retired Shakespearean actor suffering from ill health in his old age and pining for the glory days while people tend to his every need in János Edelényi’s The Carer. There are certainly other people in Sir Michael Gifford’s (Brian Cox) life as we see throughout the film but the majority…
Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2 is the sequel that nobody asked for to a film that –as far as I can tell- nobody loved enough to want to see more. It must have made money otherwise we wouldn’t be here. This time out, the Horsemen are tasked with stealing a computer chip…
So finally we have the chance to see Alex Proyas’ Gods of Egypt, I would say fresh from it’s disappointing box-office on its release in the US, but that was back in February, so “fresh” is a word that seems unwarranted. However, was the critical slating, a merge 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the lacklustre…
Blackmail and loneliness are the order of the day in Michael Lennox’ A Patch of Fog when a security guard threatens to expose a respected novelist’s tendency towards petty crime if he doesn’t become his friend. In the beginning the film plays out like a fairly standard stalker thriller but quickly becomes a really complex…
Rebecca Daly’s Mammal explores how grief can completely consume someone’s life and make them imprint on other things as a coping mechanism. The focus of the film is Margaret (Rachel Griffiths); a woman who is really detached from the world around her. She’s a good citizen and very active in her community but she doesn’t…
Years after graduating high school, the former most popular kid in school reconnects with someone who was pretty much the opposite and is caught up in an intricate plot that threatens national security in Rawson Marshall Thuber’s Central Intelligence As stories go it’s horribly generic and you’ll be able to see every plot beat come…
The question of what pets do when their owners aren’t around is finally answered in Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney’s The Secret Life of Pets. Obviously this film isn’t a documentary or anything like that but I thought it’d be a good opening line. This film adopts the Toy Story mould of having something that…
The sheriff of a small town along the U.S. and Mexico border finds himself investigating a drug cartel deal that went very wrong in Gonzalo López-Gallego’s The Hollow Point. In many ways this is a buddy movie with young Lawman Wallace (Patrick Wilson) and old Lawman (Ian McShane) teaming up on the investigation that lands…
