Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. (2017)
You Humans Have Issues: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. (2017) First off, pop-pickers, the soundtrack is not only equal to that of the first movie, it’s better. It had to be said. Secondly, any sequel-worries you may have will evaporate in the first ten minutes: there’s yet another quiet prologue on Earth before the brilliant credits sequence blasts you into outer space happiness, with Baby Groot dancing to the ELO’s ‘Mr. Blue...
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
I Wasn’t Built for Dancing: Ghost in the Shell (2017) Aside from buying a few issues of Lone Wolf and Cub back in the ‘80s, I know almost nothing about Manga comics and I know literally nothing about Ghost in the Shell, the Japanese comic book by Masamune Shirow, on which this film is based. In fact, until yesterday I didn’t even know that there was a controversy over the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the lead role....
Get Out (2017)
Racist Black Comedy: Get Out (2017) “If I could have voted Obama in for a third term, I would have. Best President this country ever had.” Well, that’s one way to put your affluent white daughter’s black boyfriend at ease: patronise the hell out of him. Then again, since it’s the second time we’ve heard this and Get Out has only been running for twenty minutes, then maybe it’s a sincere statement. Perhaps Daddy did think that a...
Kong : Skull Island (2017)
Show Me The Monkey! Kong: Skull Island (2017) Loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it. And probably for the ‘wrong’ reason: because it was fun. It was just heart-pumping, kid-on-a-haunted-house ride fun. And it’s a giant monster movie. The kind where giant monsters beat the living bejeezus out of each other. Tons of action and truckloads of… fun. You’re not meant to have fun at these movies anymore, didn’t you know...
Logan (2017)
The New Mutants: Logan (2017) Back in the early ‘eighties I picked up a few copies of a mini-series called Wolverine that was drawn by Frank Miller. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about new X-man. I remember that there was a scene where the berserk title character tore through a crowd of men, ripping and slashing with those famous adamantium claws. At the end of the sequence there’s a voiceover caption of him saying: ...
Rings (2016)
Don’t Call Us: Rings (2016) Yeah; I know. That’s a pretty cheesy header, but it’s all I could think of. I didn’t really expect cinematic lightning to strike me twice in the same week. After all, it was hardly likely that F. Javier Gutiérrez’s sequel to the sequel of a Japanese original was going to be in any way groundbreaking. Not after just having seen M. Night Shyamalan’s wonderful Split. Still, Rings is a handsome,...
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