This was such a roller coaster. The way it flips in the second half caught me off guard, but kept me so engaged and brought an entirely new life to the film. Igor alone added a new layer of depth and tension.
Mikey Madison is everything though. The way she embodies Ani throughout the entire film, with the disregard for "Anora" as we slowly get glimpses of the person behind the mask. I was rooting for her from the get…
To visualise memory in such a way is somewhat hard to imagine being possible, but here we are. Everything about how this movie delivers its story is perfect. I put this watch off for far too long, always waiting to be in the "right mood" to watch it, and now that I've seen it I realise how foolish I was to sleep on it. Paul Mescal had me feeling all kinds of things, I empathised with him, I cried with…
This is everything you could ever want out of an Alien film. Possibly the truest sequel to the original. Rain is a great protagonist, but is completely outshined by Andy, who steals every moment of the movie. He is the perfect vision of Lawful Evil, and David Jonsson delivers a powerhouse performance from start to finish.
The face crawlers feel like the biggest threat here, the Xenomorphs look amazing, but the aim-bot gun made them seem much less intimidating.
The…
The backdrop of post-war Japan is the perfect setting for a Godzilla epic, which comes as no surprise to anyone. The story overall is nothing to write home about, nor are the performances, but the combination of the two provide the perfect amount of grounding for the plot. I wanted nothing more than Akiko not being left alone at the end.
But most importantly, Godzilla, the man himself, PERFECT. Such a silly, janky walk, in all the right ways, which…
