The making of Flow is a story unto itself. Director Gints Zibalodis has spent 5 years developing the tale, using free animation software named Blender, and working without any storyboards, and without any edits, what is delivered over the tight runtime is everything he conceived in one continuous flow of animated beauty.
The tale is simple, a cat is caught up in a disastrous flood, and must team up with other animals in order to survive. As the mismatched animals…
A small caveat before I get into the review here. Bong Joon-ho is a director that fascinates me with his style, even if I don’t always find it works. The Host in 2006 impressed me immediately, and Mother was a unique experience. Snowpiercer, on initial release, failed to grab my attention - there was a good story buried in there (after all, the graphic novel it was drawn from was a cracking read), but the skewed and quirky political angle,…
Amazon Prime has some right bollocks buried in their library, and I must be nuts to have expected something fun out of this. I knew I wouldn't have a ball with it, but I wish I'd sacked it off after ten minutes.
Kudos to them for the effects on such a micro budget, but I prefer my horror with ghoulies as opposed to....well, you get the idea by now.
Enough puns, this is just cobblers.
A group of people from various walks of life are all invited to the private island of celebrity chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) for an exclusive evening of special dishes, drawn around (as we are told by Nicolas Hoult’s character Tyler) a particular theme. However, as the courses are served, truths about the guests start to come out, highlighting that there may be a more sinister reason for these names to be selectively invited along for this event, as the…
