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Director: Bong Joon Ho Mickey 17 is a film adapted from the novel Mickey7 (which I did not read and cannot comment on the authenticity of the film vs the book) and presents the story of a colony project in 2054 when a space vessel (a huge one, mind you) of volunteers goes to conquer…
Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan The Watchers have a story centred in Ireland, and we meet people who have found themselves locked up in woods with mythical and dangerous creatures, the watchers who hunt humans during the night but sleep and hide during the day. I did not watch the previous iterations of this film, so…
Director: Fred C. Rabbath The Final Pact is a new film by an independent director, Fred C. Rabbath, who also happens to be my favourite director (generally, not just the independent one). The Final Pact is a sci-fi/horror film that tackles biblical sin, temptation and exorcism. But this film is more than that. It is…
Director: Tim Burton I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last weekend in the cinema, in the D-BOX experience, which was the first time I watched a film like that. It goes without saying I loved having my chair shake every time something happened in the movie. As for the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice story, after a family tragedy, members…
Director: Lee Isaac Chung Twisters is an American disaster film portraying a team of researchers, and tornado chasers, trying to chase tornadoes. The 2024 Twisters is a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 Twisters film. In 2024 Twisters, the research team is trying to find a way to dissipate tornadoes and make them smaller before they…
Director: Shawn Levy I watched Deadpool and Wolverine as soon as it came out, but the review is delayed so there are plenty of reviews already. Anyway, my take? It was fun and exactly what you expect of this film and Ryan Reynolds was as brilliant as you expect him to be. In this instalment…
Director: Michael Sarnoski A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the 2018 film A Quiet Place by John Krasinski where parents struggle to raise their children in a world occupied by extraterrestrial blind creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing. A Quiet Place: Day One returns to the first day of the invasion and how it…
Director: Wes Ball Rating: 4/5 Kingdom of the Planet of Apes is a standalone sequel to 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes directed by Wes Ball, the creator of the Maze Runner film series (which I loved!). The film takes place 300 years after the war. Humans have lost intelligence and the ability…
Production: Popping Orange Communications The Sociologist’s Wife is a short film, 21 minutes long, that I watched as part of my participation at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association, which I have been regularly attending for many years. The Sociologist’s Wife was broadcast as part of the conference participation, but it is also…
Rating: 5/5 (film 1), 4/5 (film 2) Director, film 1 (2016): Scott Derrickson Director, film 2 (2022): Sam Raimi Can you imagine a world dressed in femininity where the feminine leadership style of compassion, empathy and selflessness dominates and opposes any individualism and having personal power other than for bringing people together to defend the…
Director: Nora Fingscheidt I watched The Unforgivable when it was first released (2021) but did not blog during the pandemic, courtesy of excessive and abnormal isolation in the UK that lasted too many years and caused me immense stress plus an increased workload. The Unforgivable is not just another Sandra Bullock film (and we know…
Director: Harry Bradbeer Rating: 2/5 This film looked exciting especially since we have a girl as a leading character. Therefore, I thought it was going to be a true feminist story. As it turns out, I was a bit disappointed. The film narrates a story of Enola Holmes, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes who is…
Director: Jeff Orlowski Rating: 5/5 I watched The Social Dilemma as soon as it was released but did not have the time to write a blog (this has happened all too often for a while now). However, since the whole hoopla with Facebook kicking off about the film, I felt I need to write something.…
Director: Lorene Scafaria Rating: 4/5 This film is based on a true story of strippers who were robbing rich men by drugging them. The story first broke in the New York Times when Jessica Pressler wrote an article “The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves”.…
Director: Jim Mickle Rating: 5/5 I watched this film last night, and I was surprised because nothing in the short description of the film mentioned time-travel. The film was really interesting. Well, I always think that time travel is interesting because it is my favourite genre but this one was really, really interesting. Essentially, in…
Director: Fab 5 Freddy Rating: 5/5 I saw some other films on legalisation of cannabis and therefore I am familiar with the narrative on who blocked legalisation and who made it illegal in the US in the first place. However, what I did not know is that cannabis originates from the Black community and that…
Director: Anne Fletcher Rating: 5/5 This is a very interesting film portraying the struggle one girl feels when her mom does not accept her for who she is. In this particular case, Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) is considered fat and thus suffers from body shaming in a wider society obsessed with patriarchal duck face beauty types.…
Director: Deon Taylor Rating: 3/5 I just watched this film, and it really gave me food for thought. It addresses the journalism practice and the issue of masculinist culture in the news industry but also of the exploitation of women that happens on a daily basis and not many cares. The story in the film…
Director: David Slade Rating: 3/5 After having some issues with PHP code change, which is btw a one-day issue just that I did not have that one day to sort it out, I am finally back. In this particular case, I am back and ready to moan against Netflix’s Bandersnatch! This new film on Netflix…
Director: Gus Van Sant Rating: 4/5 This film is another beauty available on Amazon Prime. The full title of the film is Don’t Worry: He won’t get far on foot. The title would suggest this film to be a comedy, but it isn’t. It is an incredibly deep drama showing how people deal with disability and…
Director: Richard Loncraine Rating: 5/5 This film is another beauty from Amazon Prime. If Amazon continues like this, my blog will no longer be dominated by Netflix only. The film tackles elderly age, and as such gives a beautiful message, that life can be inspiring and joyful even when we grow old and retire. Thus,…