I would dearly love to say that nothing became “The War Of The Worlds” like the ending of it, but that harsh truth is that actually nothing much came of it at all. Never has a global alien invasion been portrayed with less action, incident or coherence than this. In this week’s stultifying episode, we’re…
Tag: 2019
Charlie’s Angels (2019) earns its wings but forgets to have fun doing it.
Perhaps not since “Star Trek” has a franchise had such a long, unbroken continuity across multiple TV series and movies. This latest “Charlie’s Angels” incarnation is just that, a continuation, with the only erasure of the past being of Bill Murray and, to a lesser extent, Bernie Mac. As Bosley prepares to bid farewell to…
I’m all in for Knives Out (2019)
Part Agatha Christie homage, part reimagining of “Clue” with just a pinch of “Murder By Death”, Rian Johnson’s latest murder mystery film is as wittily subversive as you might expect and while it’s no gamechanger it’s still a welcome injection of honest to goodness fun into the ponderous, stultifying multiplexes of late 2019. When the…
I go gaga for Gugu in thoughtful superhero sci-fi Fast Color (2019)
Finally available in the UK to Netflix subscribers, “Fast Color”, a quiet and low-key exploration of the super-hero genre, has more in common with “Midnight Special” than “Man Of Steel” and if it’s superpower punch-ups and fast-paced action then you won’t find them here. Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) lives life on the road, wandering the American…
Episode 2 of the BBC’s The War Of The Worlds charts humanity’s continuing efforts to defeat the Martians by boring them to death
While it retains many of the faults of the first episode, there are at least signs here and there of some improvement in this still disjointed and sluggish adaptation of H G Well’s celebrated novel. Rafe Spall still seems miscast as George, a character which the show can’t seem to choose between making a hero…
Frozen II (2019) sets out to answer the biggest mystery of Frozen – where did that choral music from the first film actually come from?
A sequel so long-awaited that one of the characters even breaks the fourth wall to note the audience looks a little bit older, “Frozen II” goes back to beyond the beginning of the first movie to deliver a complex wraparound follow-up to 2013’s breezy take on “The Snow Queen”. With Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven…
