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To enter the world of John Wick, you need to accept one very simple fact. Mr Wick is a fucking badass. Get that into your head and you will be fine, because this is revenge porn that isn’t pretending its central character is anything less than a super hero. Wick’s nickname is the boogeyman and every time he steps foot in a room, every person in it hopes that he isn’t there for them.
Drones are a hot topic at this point in time, so it’s hardly surprising that they are making their way onto the big screen. Good Kill follows the life of a drone pilot, someone who gets to stay at home in beautiful old America and conduct his business from an air-conditioned booth in Las Vegas. Sadly, being away from the actual conflict zone doesn’t mean that the war’s effects are any less real.
A cartoon based around the adventures of a sponge which lives in a pineapple under the sea sounds like something dreamt up by someone after a long day of taking halluceinogenics. However, it does somehow exist and SpongeBob Squarepants has become one of Nickleodeon’s biggest exports. The first SpongeBob movie was released in 2004 and despite a lengthy period between them, everyone’s favourite yellow fry cooks is now back with The SpongBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
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There are some stories that don’t need explaining and I’m pretty sure Cinderella falls into that category. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t know the story of the girl with the glass slippers and therefore it was an obvious choice for Disney as they continue their conversion of their classic animated films into live action.
For many the animation work of Studio Ghibli is the be all and end all of animated cinema. The Japanese studio has long reigned supreme and the announcement that it’s director Hayao Miyazaki was set to retire after his last film, The Wind Rises, was met with universal sadness. However, Miyazaki wasn’t solely responsible for Ghibli’s output and Isa Takahata, who co-founded Ghibli with Miyazaki, is still making films. Which brings us to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya an Academy Award nominee this year, although it did lose out to Big Hero 6.
Whether or not you get on board with Mommy will be very much down to your initial reaction. If you’re not a fan of subtitles, that will be tick number one in the against column, (although I really have to question why that would be an issue) while the fact it is shot in a 1:1 ratio might just be the final nail in any respective coffin. It insures Mommy is never an easy watch, as the almost perfect square gives the whole film a sense of claustrophobia that it is hard to escape.
Horror comedy is a tough genre to pull off. It requires that you to both produce scares and laughs to truly pull it off and for every Evil Dead 2 there is a whole host of shit that we don’t want to remember. Stepping into that difficult arena is The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi whose previous film Persepolis, it’s fair to say, is a very different beast from this one.
X+Y sits in an unusual place. On one hand, it’s a sweet look at a young maths prodigy trying to find a place in the world. He goes to the International Mathematical Olympiad, meets a girl and discovers that there is more to the world than numbers. On the other hand, that same prodigy registers on the spectrum and just doesn’t understand how people work. His father died at a young age and his mother struggles to connect with him. His mentor suffers from multiple sclerosis and he discovers that even in the world of the super smart, bullying is still a major issue.
Hello friends, in an attempt to do something a bit different, this post is a video review of the Neil Blomkamp film Chappie. It’s simply an attempt to mix things up a bit and hopefully future videos will be a little bit more ambitious, but I thought I should start small. Let me know if you have any thoughts and enjoy.
Even though the Oscars have come and gone, those of us in the UK are still catching up on the last of this years nominees. The biggest of which comes in the form of Still Alice, which saw Julianne Moore capturing a gong for the first time, despite four previous nominations. It’s a film that has taken on even more symbolic strength, following the death of Richard Glatzer, one of its directors. Having passed away at the age of 63 from motor neurone disease, his final film will probably be his best remembered.
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