Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Mark Anthony Green's debut is entertaining, but is frustratingly close to being great. Performances from Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich carry the film, which, while covering the well trodden ground of wide eyed innocent in a maybe cult like situation, there's a new spin on how it all unfolds. With a little more polish and maybe another draft of the script, this could have been brilliant, but as is, it's a decent and entertaining watch
The last few years have thrown up the odd surprisingly good video game movie adaptations - Sonic, Super Mario Bros, Uncharted, Detective Pikachu spring to mind.
Borderlands is not one of these. Despite the game's strong visual aesthetic, the movie comes off bland and lifeless, at times it looks remarkably cheap for a big budget blockbuster, and the script feels like someone wrote 'witty banter' as an AI prompt. I'd love to know what dirt Eli Roth had on Cate…
The Monkey is bloody good fun! A tonal U-turn from Perkins' previous, Longlegs, this Stephen King adaptation leans in to the ridiculousness of its premise: A wind up toy monkey with the power to kill anyone it chooses. The kills are over the top, the gore is plentiful, and the laughs keep coming. A great dual performance from Theo James as twin brothers makes this one to watch!
A decent enough watch, with good performances and sound design. The story is good but could be fleshed out a little bit more, but it doesn't rely on jump scares to spook you out