One Good Mother? Are you serious? That’s terrible. I’m going to need to fire my joke person (Unmarked Spoilers) Following an apocalyptic disaster, a lone robot called Mother (motion capture by Luke Hawker, voiced by Rose Byrne) sets about repopulation the human race. Raising Daughter (Clara Rugaard) from a small embryo, all is peaceful, and …
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An enjoyable case of déjà vu
Olivia Wilde sets the bar high with her directorial debut This movie is very similar to Superbad. Yeah, I’m sure I just blew your mind with that observation. I bet I’m the only person to have realized that. Interestingly, watching Booksmart and Superbad is a good exercise in seeing how society has constructed gender. The main character of both films are insufferable, …
Prepare for War
All he needs are lots of guns a Matrix reference Before I go on, let’s back up a little and go over all the bad decisions made in-universe that have brought us to this point. So, Isoef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) is the son of this New York mob boss Viggo (Michael Nyqvist) and a total moron. How …
To think, I was just a small child when Iron Man came out
I can’t believe that makes me feel old (Unmarked Spoilers) Thanos (Josh Brolin) has killed off half the universe, and there’s no hope in sight. Except, could the answer possibly lie in the time vortex that Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned at the very end of Ant-Man and the Wasp? I’m not spoiler tagging anything in this review, …
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Hey ho, let’s go…again
I hope you like remakes, because I have a feeling we’re about to get a lot more Normally I’d start my review with a basic outline of what happens before going into my thoughts and feelings. Except, given that the advertising wasn’t exactly shy about telling you what the plot is for both this movie …
One Captain Marvel movie down, one to go
Thankfully, this one doesn’t have any floss dancing in it The thing I enjoyed most about this movie is that it wasn’t your typical superhero origin story movie. The film starts with the main character already as a superhero while Captain Marvel’s (Brie Larson) origin story is unfolded slowly as the movie goes on, kind …
You should have just quit when you were ahead Rowling
Witness a film that lacks the magic that made the previous entries so special The movie begins with public enemy #1 Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) escaping from prison. Why, because they chose to lock up the most dangerous wizard in the whole world as opposed to, you know, executing him for his numerous crimes. Plus, this whole …
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Happy birthday to me–wait, that’s a different movie
A horror movie sequel that’s a little hard to explain without giving something away Happy Death Day 2U is the follow up to Happy Death Day, one of the many films that came out alongside the great horror movie resurgence of 2017. Other examples include It, Split, and of course, Get Out. Both Happy Death Day films lean more towards the …
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This is the sequel I’ve waited 14 years for?
Just to be clear, it’s not that the movie’s bad, it’s just that it’s…disappointing The Parr family is back, in this long-awaited sequel to the 2004 animated classic. Continuing right where the original film left off, Mr.Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner), and Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile and Nicholas …
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It’s like the drama to Ocean 8’s comedy
Well, that was fun. Widows is a movie brought to us by Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, and Gillian Flynn, writer of the novel Gone Girl and its film adaption. It’s also a film adaption of the 1983 ITV series of the same name.