Science Fiction
Venom: The Last Dance Review
This is not your average superhero movie, this is not trying to be. This is violent, this is cringe, this is silly, this is fun. This is Venom. Hinted to be this iteration of Venom’s last hurrah, Venom: The Last Dance is co-written by director Kelly Marcel and lead actor Tom Hardy. Marcel has been the lead writer for the past two Venom movies and she maintains the same incredibly unique tone whil...
Transformers One Review
While audiences might be approaching the release of Transformers One with trepidation, after being burnt out by the repetitive trend of more explosions than plot in recent films from the franchise, however like the Transformers slogan, there is definitely more than meets the eye with this film. Welcome to the origin story of our favourite arch nemeses, Optimus Prime and Megatron. From the outset ...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review
Strap in scavs! On May 23rd Aussie auteur George Miller once again fangs audiences across the post apocalyptic central Australian wasteland. Expanding the rebooted universe established with 2015’s Fury Road, Furiosa gives us the full life and times of the titular antiheroine. Well, the important bits anyway. Her rise from unwilling captive snatched away from goodness, to mute feral. To praetorian ...
Civil War Review
Writer and Director Alex Garland (Men, Ex Machina) delivers a spectacular, confronting and all too plausible take on a fictional modern conflict gripping the United States of America. Civil War asks, What If? What if the corrupt President (Nick Offerman – The Last of Us) broke all the rules and attempted to create a dictatorship. Abolishing legal process, exempt from prosecution, disbanding ...
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Review
This week sees the release of the fifth instalment in the epic Monsterverse franchise – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. This time around, we see Godzilla and Kong forced to unite against a formidable adversary emerging from Hollow Earth. This new threat not only questions the dominance of these titanic beings, but also jeopardises the fate of humanity. Promising higher stakes than ever befo...
Dune: Part Two Review
Dune: Part Two is the much anticipated sequel to 2021’s sci-fi epic – Dune. With Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049) returning to the director’s chair to complete the story of the first book in the series, fans of Frank Herbert’s novels and film fanatics alike are anticipating this film to be even grander than the original. In this second instalment, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chal...
Madame Web Review
What started with a unique premise and intricate storyline, Madame Web quickly became more tangled up than, well, a fly in a spider’s web. In an effort to tap into the Spider-Man hype, (delicately without ever mentioning everyone’s favourite web-slinger overtly), director S.J. Clarkson took a former side character from the comic pages and gave her the full-fledged superhero movie treatment, which ...
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Review
Francis Lawrence (Catching Fire, Mockingjay films) continues to realise Suzanne Collin’s Panem and the aristocratic machinations of that fictional, dystopian future. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes acts as a prequel to the much loved Hunger Games saga, following an adolescent Corolianas Snow (Tom Blyth- Billy the Kid) as he comes into this world an already downtrodden and bitter individual, with mu...
Meg 2: The Trench Review
Meg 2: The Trench sinks its teeth into cinemas this week from Warner Bros. Pictures. After what feels like forever since 2018’s The Meg, fans of the creature feature are hoping for another fin-tastic entry in the franchise. In this mega second instalment, Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) spearheads the Mana One team’s venture into the uncharted depths of the Mariana Trench. They discover a myst...
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Review
During the ’90s, a new faction of Transformers – the Maximals – join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
The Flash Review
The Flash races into cinemas this week as Warner Bros. Pictures releases one of the last films in its current DCEU timeline, and one of its biggest gambles to date. After more than 10 years in development, WB and fans alike are hoping that The Flash was worth the wait after all this time. In a collision of worlds, Barry Allen AKA The Flash (Ezra Miller) harnesses his superhuman speed to journey ba...
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review
Sony Pictures’ latest superhero flick, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, swings into cinemas this week. After many years, this long-awaited sequel is hoping to amaze fans in a spectacular fashion. And with its predecessor being so widely loved, this instalment had some big shoes to fill. Brooklyn’s one-and-only Spider-Man, Miles Morales, embarks on a journey through the Multiverse after r...