And Why Closure Is Important In Movies — Light spoilers for Dune (2021) I was approaching the edge of my seat. My palms were sweaty. My heart was pounding. My eyes were bulging. I was so invested I was willing to throw myself in between hero and villain just to protect them…I had never known a cinema to…

Gender neutrality has been skiing uphill for so many years and just when you think the slope will plateau to generate real progression, in walks Hollywood — After leaving the cinema in 2015 having just watched the shiny new Jurassic World film with my family, I said, ‘Well, that was shit. That literally just put storytelling back 25 years.’ Which is an obvious embellishment, that also happens to be true. But what was more interesting was how…

The frightening thing isn’t the film’s absence of quality but what it signals for the future streaming wars — When someone asks you if a film was good, you can usually sum it up in a few tidy sentences. The Tomorrow War is no exception. Handily, Ross from Friends has the perfect quote which, in all honesty, I’ve paraphrased slightly: “You know at the end of the day when…

In a rush to create a memorable character everyone thinks they have to design a deluge of eccentric characteristics and quirky flaws. Stoner is the antidote to this, proving the remarkable can lie in the unremarkable. — It’s 1 am. I’ve just finished reading Stoner, John Williams’ posthumous classic for the second time. I can’t sleep. How can I knowing I’ve been touched so heartily by a character who now exists more in my soul than in those tender pages which reveal his broken but wholesome life…

Phase 4 is on wobbly territory, probably a nauseous effect of so many interdimensional shenanigans — Spoilers, duh! Wacky, bonanza fun. I don’t even know what that means, but I know that’s what I expected this film to be. I think we all did. Once the title dropped we were giddy as school children. Unpredictability was this story’s horizon. A film that unabashedly states, ‘Yeah, we’re…

And how time and hype contribute to a film’s reception — I did it. I watched The Snyder Cut again... And wow! It's just released on Netflix here in Germany and my girlfriend was in a daring enough mood to say, ‘fuck it how bad can it be?’ …Turns out very. A year ago and upon first watch, I thought Snyder’s…

And why Sci-fi and Fantasy films benefit from an enclosed network — Spoilers abound It’s always fun to see how such a chaotic beehive as the internet responds to new movies. Awe. Disgust. Repulsion. Admiration. All among the greatest hits. Yet, few releases capture them all in one. And even fewer incite such vitriol— if they’re not Star Wars that is. …

A head-scratcher of a superhero movie if ever there was one — **Heavy spoilers and much nerdy talk ahead** For days I wracked my brain trying to understand where The Eternals went wrong. True, it felt too slow, too long, too wooden and far, far too bloated — just look a the poster for confirmation of that — but none of these…

A satisfying swansong to Daniel Craig’s uneven run as 007? — *Light spoilers ahead * From exploding graves to explosive one-liners to exploded surprises and nuclear-sized explosions, there’s so much to say about Craig’s last film. At once, very Bond and at the same time very un-Bond. The film manages to tread new ground while recreating the moments fans know and…