The Review at the End of the Universe
A father and daughter bond over their love of playing/creating music during her final summer before leaving for college in Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud. I saw this film as part of the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival and had no idea what to expect going in as is often the case for festival films. All…
John Lee Hancock tells the story of the rise of iconic fast food franchise McDonalds from a single restaurant to multinational behemoth in The Founder. The film follows Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman always on the lookout for the next big thing. When we meet him he is trying to sell a milkshake mixing…
Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu’s Ice Age: Collision Course is the fifth entry in the Ice Age series and this time, the herd are tasked with saving all life on Earth. Yes, you read that correctly. This series has gotten so tired and bloated that it has got to this point. How could such…
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl explores the concept of living with a terminal illness and what effect that has on the people around you from the teenage perspective. Greg (Thomas Mann) is a self confessed social outcast but not in the negative sense. The film goes to great lengths to establish that he…
