The Review at the End of the Universe
The Underworld franchise returns for a fifth instalment with Anna Foerster’s Underworld: Blood Wars where Kate Beckinsale’s Seline continues to make enemies on either side of the Vampire/Lycan conflict. I’ve always enjoyed the Underworld films on one level or another. They have always been more about style than substance but there’s enough there to hold…
John Michael McDonagh is a director of some previous note. His first work in the big chair, The Guard, took triple its modest $6 million production budget, and his subsequent film, Cavalry, was a critical success, picking up several nominations for its cast and crew, even winning a Best Actor award at the British Independent Film…
Robert Schwentke’s The Divergent Series: Allegiant is the third of four films in this series that thinly differs from The Hunger Games. This outing gives viewers their first taste of life outside the dystopian Chicago as Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James), Peter (Miles Teller), Christina (Zoë Kravitz) and Caleb (Ansel Elgort) find themselves outside…
Andrew Renzi’s Franny casts Richard Gere as an eccentric man with infinite money who hides an inner darkness and dependence on prescription drugs behind his quips and smiles. The opening moments of the film establish Franny as we will see him throughout the narrative. He is the adored family friend of a married couple played…
Robert Schwentke’s Insurgent is the second installment in The Divergent Series and continues the story that started in last year’s Divergent. The first film wasn’t good at all and if it weren’t for a friend wanting to see this I would have skipped this entirely due to how woefully uninspiring the overall premise is. In…
