Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Maybe I set expectations too high after Parasite...
This feels like it's pulling from both Snowpiercer and Ojka along with the clone stuff as the unique selling point.
Pattinson is doing incredible work here and Ruffalo is gleefully unhinged in all of his scenes. Toni Collette gets to have plenty of fun with her villan role opposite Ruffalo so the acting is overall a strength.
Where M17 stumbles though is uneven pacing and wild tone shifts. It leads to moments…
A bleak, dark as night comedy hiding inside a horror story.
The titular Monkey is creepy enough but the kills are presented in such a gleefully absurd way that there's never any shock value or sense of dread.
This is still extremely entertaining though, I laughed a lot and will keep following Perkins' career.
Tenet is an utterly bombastic, high concept action film from Christopher Nolan. The plot (no spoilers) follows a former soldier tasked with preventing the end of the world which.
Time as plot device is a staple of Nolan's film making (Inception, Interstellar & Dunkirk) and here it takes centre stage. The plot is going to confuse anyone not focusing closely on what unfolds onscreen. This is an action film at it's heart but it's action driven by some theoretical physics that…
Feels like the Phase 1/2 type of Marvel film which we haven't gotten in a long time. That's a good thing because those were well made, simple crowd pleasers that knew to keep all the broader, interconnected narrative stuff to post credits. This does that and serves up a lean (under 2 hours I think), fast paced action thriller with Ford being the best actor on screen but Mackie close behind.
Not all the CGI is back to their best but it's definitely improved since some other MCU offerings.