Okja (2017)
“If it’s cheap, they’ll eat it.” Okja takes place in the present day for a reason. Rather than push its lavishly hyperbolic take on an old Aesop Fable out into a […]
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Despicable Me 3 (2017)
“Does no one value true art anymore?” Movies like Despicable Me 3 – alongside other recent animated films such as the insultingly stupid The Secret Life of Pets or the scattershot The Good Dinosaur […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
“I feel like I could be doing more.” As the sixth leading role in a film since the dawn of the new millenium – and the third reboot of the […]
47 Meters Down (2017)
“I don’t know about this.” I fear that too many of us take simple-minded and daring movies like 47 Meters Down for granted, especially because when they’re done well – as this […]
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
“More alien rubbish.” It’s never a promising sign when I go through my scribbled notepad after a movie and find the followings lines: “I’m already lost,” “Literally can’t tell what […]
The Mummy (2017)
“This is not a tomb…it’s a prison.” In the screengrab below, the wholly unlikable douche Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) resigns to a death sentence and pulls the parachute on his […]
Wonder Woman (2017)
“I am not what you thought I was.” Wonder Woman seems to have been conceived through a simple yet radical notion for the film industry; what if you made a gigantic […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
“Filthy pirate.” Pirates of the Caribbean has become what I’d like to label a tee-ball franchise. The hits are easy and don’t sail very far even with such below average hand-eye coordination, […]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
“Something doesn’t smell right.” The brash, combative, utterly unfunny King Arthur: Legend of the Sword reads as the embodiment of the above quote. It’s the crimson tainted hunk of beef […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
“It’s too adorable to kill.” As a fan of the original, as well as a firm believer that it’s just a wee bit overrated, I must say that Guardians of the […]
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