It would be hard to deny that most people who have seen The Lego Movie (2014), regardless of age, had a thoroughly good time. With its heartfelt message, unforgettable songs and some genuinely funny jokes, it was wondered whether the sequel would hold up. Directed by Mike Mitchell and written by original writers and directors […]
Maya Angelou once said, “the desire to reach the stars is ambitious, the desire to reach hearts is wise.” Following her fierce, critically acclaimed documentary 13th (2016), about the intersections of race and mass incarceration, director Ava DuVernay shifts genres into the world of the big-budgeted children’s film. Her latest feature A Wrinkle in Time […]
There is a moment in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 when, after arriving on an alien planet, the film’s hero is told he can control all matter on it. He immediately cautions, “I’m gonna make some weird shit.” Well you would, wouldn’t you? He is Peter Quill, or Star-Lord, and he and his spacefaring […]
It has been fifty-six years since John Sturges’s Magnificent Seven, itself a wild-west re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa’s critically acclaimed Seven Samurai from 1954. The 2016 update does not deliver, nor even compare with the earlier films however and while it packs the barrel with explosions and big-name Hollywood actors, pacing issues and a reductive good […]