2024 Reviews – The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Sometimes, it pays to be slow! The first short in this anthology was released by Netflix in 2023, and subsequently won Best Live Action Short Film at the Oscars, and I always really wanted to get to it. But since … Continued
2024 Reviews – Unfrosted
People! I’m going to watch Unfrosted 🙌 Jerry Seinfeld has directed a movie; a satirical look at the invention of the pop tart 💁♂️ It begins with Edsel Kellogg III (Jim Gaffigan), and his company of Kellogg’s cereal is flying … Continued
2024 Reviews – Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver
I simply cannot go another second without this movie being watched 🧐 I refer to the first Rebel Moon as ‘$2-Shop Star Wars Toys: The Movie”, and it ended on a cliffhanger, with a Part 2 just around the corner. … Continued
2024 Reviews – Inside Out 2
It’s Pixar in the cinema, y’all! Yes, after I missed Elemental on the big screen last year, and after a spate of Pixar releases that went straight to Disney+ due to COVID-19, that lamp be bouncing across my cinema screen … Continued
2024 Reviews – Force of Nature: The Dry 2
In 2021, The Dry came out, and I think I reviewed it as part of a catch-up mini review experiment for that year. I thought it was solid, and rewatching it again recently, I like it a little bit more. … Continued
2024 Reviews – Monkey Man
Hey, hey, hey, the Monkey Man’s here!” I swear to God, that’s a line from the first episode of Skins, where the character of Chris, walks into a party, with Dev Patel by his side. All this time, Skins fans … Continued
2024 Reviews – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Let’s ante-up to the next ape movie on the 2024 roster 😎 I know I’d cop heat (if anyone cared who I was) for trashing the last two fantasy movies for not being considerate enough, while enjoying a movie like … Continued
2024 Reviews – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
It’s so funny, watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes again, and seeing the virus spread that took out the humans in the closing credits. I remember sitting in the theatre watching this in 2014, and giving a young … Continued
2024 Reviews – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Here’s a couple interesting things – rewatching Mad Max: Fury Road the other night, I realised that I don’t think the lead swap that occurs in that movie would be taken too kindly if it happened today. Back when Charlize … Continued
2024 Reviews – Dune: Part Two
So, here’s what happened… In 2021, I saw Dune, and started to contemplate if maybe Denis Villeneuve had taken over Christopher Nolan as Hollywood’s most current premier director. Then Oppenheimer came out, blew me away, and whack – Nolan had … Continued