Micro-Review: Old (2021)

Gael García Bernal and Vicky Krieps in Old While it is impossible to say that all of M Night Shyamalan's films are the same, it is becoming increasingly frequent that the reviews for his movies all point to the same issues. Be it the inconsistent dialogue, the odd casting choices or, most importantly, the twist …

Review: The Vast Of Night (2020) – Something On The Air

Sierra McCormick in The Vast of Night The influences behind first time director Andrew Patterson's The Vast of Night are too various to name, from an opening that makes out that this sci-fi horror mesh is an episode of the original Twilight Zone to a series of monologues reminiscent of old 1950s radio plays, Patterson …

Review: The Invisible Man (2020) – Heard But Not Seen

While Leigh Whannell's previous feature Upgrade looked at the way technology removes our freedom and choice from us, sometimes quickly but more often than not slowly and without notice. His latest, an adaptation of The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, similarly toys with its characters freedom but here the constricting forces are different. Be it …

Review: Alita: Battle Angel (2019) – Wide Eyed Naivete

Trying to say something new is every filmmakers goal, or at least it should be with everything they do. Be it something little, a human eccentricity that highlights a story or an emotion or something huge, like Avatar's brave new world of new and wondrous creatures. You don't have to construct a whole new world …

Review: IO: Last on Earth (2019) – The Promise of Survival

The start of any good story is also the promise of an ending, a conclusion to this chapter, era or life in general. Film plays on this constantly using the idea of the end of the world as a riff on both finality and new beginnings. IO uses the end of the world as a …

Review: The Innocents Season 1 (2018) – Inside, Looking Out

When we first meet June McDaniel (Sorcha Groundsell) all we know is shes a girl struggling with her fathers' overprotective nature, a girl struggling to be normal while under the thumb of someone else. What we come to know about June is that the word normal should never be used in the same sentence as …

On August 31, 2018January 3, 2019 By hoops2448In Review, TVLeave a comment

Looking Back: The OA Season 1 – Finding Strength Through Belief

You might find yourself asking why review The OA at all. Firstly it came out at the end of 2016 with little advertising by Netflix at all almost as if they were trying to bury it, much like Amazon did with Zoe. Secondly its not a film, at least not in the conventional sense. Finally, …

On August 10, 2018January 3, 2019 By hoops2448In Review, TVLeave a comment