Shaun Munro reviews Solar Ash… Though there’s only one Shadow of the Colossus, countless indie actioners have tried to prove otherwise in recent years, taking Team Ico’s deliciously singular schematic – kill a series of epic bosses in a beautiful, mysterious land – and offering up their own twists. The latest is Solar Ash from Hyper Light […]
Movie Review – Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Home Sweet Home Alone, 2021. Directed by Dan Mazer. Starring Archie Yates, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Pete Holmes, Aisling Bea, and Devin Ratray. SYNOPSIS: A married couple tries to steal back a valuable heirloom from a troublesome kid. The possibilities of streaming cinema’s future are basically limitless, but it’s only inevitable that content networks are […]
Movie Review – Red Notice (2021)
Red Notice, 2021. Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Ritu Arya, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Ivan Mbakop. SYNOPSIS: An Interpol agent tracks the world’s most wanted art thief. Much as at-home viewing has surged over the last 20-something months, the one thing that streaming platforms are largely still […]
Video Game Review – Bloodshore
Shaun Munro reviews Bloodshore… Wales Interactive’s efforts to revive the FMV game began rather promisingly with the likes of The Bunker and especially Late Shift. The latter proved to be a competent attempt at a choose-your-own-adventure heist flick, but the publisher’s latest outing feels like a cynical regression to the FMV genre’s chintzy heyday. Bloodshore […]
Video Game Review – The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Shaun Munro reviews The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes… It’s not unkind to say that The Dark Pictures Anthology – Supermassive Games’ attempt to spin interactive horror game Until Dawn into a wider “universe” of stories – has proven itself a deflating enterprise so far. Neither Man of Medan nor Little Hope got close to capturing their […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Lamb
Lamb, 2021. Co-written and Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson. Starring Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson. SYNOPSIS: A childless couple, María and Ingvar, discover a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland. The unexpected prospect of family life brings them much joy, before ultimately destroying them. Valdimar Jóhannsson’s directorial debut Lamb is a tricky […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Petrov’s Flu
Petrov’s Flu, 2021. Written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. Starring Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, and Yuri Kolokolnikov. SYNOPSIS: A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Neutral Ground
The Neutral Ground, 2021. Co-written and directed by CJ Hunt. SYNOPSIS: In December 2015, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments from public grounds. A forceful group of critics protested the decision, and fearing retaliation, no crew would agree to remove the statues. Comedy has historically proven to be a sturdy […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – 7 Days
7 Days, 2021. Co-written and directed by Roshan Sethi. Starring Karan Soni, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Mark Duplass. SYNOPSIS: As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn’t uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19’s reach intensifies. 18+ months into the pandemic, audiences can’t really be […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Babi Yar. Context
Babi Yar. Context, 2021. Directed by Sergei Loznitsa. SYNOPSIS: Nazi troops massacre more than 30,000 Jews over a two-day period in September 1941. Given that the world is typically used to seeing aggressively narrative-driven depictions of the Holocaust – whether cinematic feature or documentary – Sergei Loznitsa’s (Donbass) new doc Babi Yar. Context may seem rather […]
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