I've been a little busy lately obsessing over all things Marvel and Josh Brolin, as well as a trip to Tokyo (blog post on its way) and other serious commitments, such as moving home and watching 13 Reasons Why. But while I'm keeping my promise of bringing short and sweet reviews, you can expect a piece of prehistoric proportions when I watch Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom later this week. Stay tuned and stay curious.
Avengers: Infinity War
Brolin packs the punch as Thanos
A decade of Stark-smart world-building and foreshadowing doesn’t lead to disappointment with the Russo Brothers’ third instalment in the now-19-film-strong Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, it isn’t just a remarkable effort – it’s a cinematic triumph. The film deals with twenty-plus characters even more harmoniously than Whedon’s Avengers: Assemble did with just six, while Brolin’s formidable but not-unrelatable Thanos rocks the boat and then some. Nothing can prepare you for him, but he’ll still put a smile on your face…
Deadpool 2
Celine's theme song "Ashes" is strangely her best
If Ryan
Reynolds was born to play anyone, it’s Deadpool (unless we’re talking about X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s Deadpool,
because that was just lazy writing). Deadpool
2 is everything you probably expected it to be – bigger, funnier and
naughtier. And it seems that Josh Brolin (there’s a reason we know your name, Josh)
was also born to play time-travelling mutant Cable. Never before has a
superhero flick been so… colourful, and never before has a Celine Dion power
ballad ever got me so pumped for a movie like this one.
Rampage
Seems about right
What do you
get when you take the basic premise of Rise
of the Planet of the Apes and inject it with an overdose of King Kong, a dash of Godzilla and a sprinkling of that other monstrous movie
star Dwayne Johnson? Well, the maths here is simple: you get a movie that’s
based vaguely on a video game no one really knows in which The Rock must, of
course, take down an assortment of giant animals using his big guns (I’m
talking about those biceps). What more could you want? And what more do you
need to know?
Ghost Stories
No one cares
It goes
without saying that the horror genre is the poorest of all. Not only are audiences
pretty hard to scare, the market has been saturated over the years. But actually,
it’s largely down to shit filmmaking. And if Ghost Stories – a film that will have you up all night wondering
why it didn’t just go straight to Netflix
- teaches us anything, it’s that each moment in life is precious. In other
words, avoid this outdated turd like you would an actual ghost. In fact, there
aren’t even any ghosts here. But there is a goat – and I ain’t afraid of no
goat.
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