I don’t want to sound too harsh here but in my opinion Marvel’s The Defenders really should have been called “The Reluctants” as this eight episode season spent way too much time with our heroes bitching and moaning about fighting the bad guys.
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Red Lights (2012) – Review
Science versus superstition is undoubtedly a great source of conflict for any good movie but when a movie tries to have its cake and it eat it too, well that’s a whole other kettle of psychic fish. That is the key problem with writer/director Rodrigo Cortés’s film, he doesn’t really pick a side. If you…
Retrospective Review: Alien 3 (1992)
If any film is proof that studios need to be kept as far away from the creative process of a film as possible, it’s Alien 3. To a lot of fans, myself included, Aliens didn’t really need a sequel, it ended perfectly. The queen’s hive destroyed, most, if not all of the Xenomorphs wiped out,…
Chappie (2015) – Review
In 2008 Neill Blomkamp was tapped by Peter Jackson to direct a Halo movie – which excited many – but when that fell through he was given money to produce his own pet project District 9 – a film that beautifully blended science fiction with apartheid – and though that film went on to be…