Imagine, if you can, waking up to find your suburban street has been taken over by dinosaurs. Well, that’s the basic premise of writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s adventure film, which has more than a touch of Steven Spielberg about it. It is easy to do that, considering that Spielberg directed one of the greatest dinosaur…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Someone recently said that the superhero movie was done and dusted, that public fatigue had grown, which is why films like Supergirl had failed miserably. Well, looking at the box office takings of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, it seems that there is still a hunger for the web-slinger. This fourth outing for the current incarnation…
The Odyssey
It used to be the case that a film star’s name attached to a project would open a movie, making it a guaranteed box-office winner. Occasionally, a director would have that same effect. Christopher Nolan has become one of those directors. His films tend to open big. Not saying that they aren’t always great. For…
Supergirl
When it was announced that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn was becoming co-head of DC Studios, after the mixed reaction to Zack Snyder’s Batman/Superman movies, there was hope that having a man who obviously has a love for comic books and superhero characters would bring a fresh and exciting new realm that could…
Masters Of The Universe
Toy company Mattel have done pretty well out of their He-Man toys. First, they became a huge success with their figurines, which led to the popular cartoon series in the 80s. Then, Cannon Films produced the cult-favourite live-action version back in 1987, with Dolph Lundgren as He-Man. Now, just when you thought the characters were…
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The last time there was a Star Wars movie in cinemas was in 2019, with The Rise of Skywalker. Since then, the franchise has taken over Disney+ with countless series, to the point of almost saturation. Now, one of the first series to appear on the channel has made it to the big screen. The…
Crime 101
One of the finest heist movies around is Michael Mann’s 1995 classic Heat. Set in Los Angeles, Mann uses the location as an integral part of the storytelling. We now have Crime 101, another heist thriller set in the City of Angels, which uses the legendary 101 freeway that runs along L.A.’s coast and is…
Mercy
In a time when the debate over the good and the bad of artificial intelligence is raging, we need a movie to help with the arguments. Mercy, unfortunately, is not that movie. A silly, science fiction whodunnit in which two big-name stars are limited to being in one room, talking to each other while surrounded…
Anaconda
How do you reboot a series that was so bad, it was almost a parody of itself? You re-imagine it into a comedy-adventure. That is what has happened to Anaconda, the 1997 action monster movie starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and an awful performance by Jon Voight. Instead of going for a remake, you approach…
Avatar: Fire And Ash
There aren’t many film franchises where I could say I don’t care. Some are bad but bearable, while others worsen progressively. Still, James Cameron’s Avatar films just don’t do anything for me, to the point that even though cinema is going through a terrible patch at the moment, I want the third entry, Fire and…
The Running Man
At the height of his career, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a sci-fi action movie called The Running Man, which was based on a story by Richard Bachman, who turned out to be Stephen King. It was a pale imitation of the original story, and so King decided to withhold his name from the material. Now,…
Predator: Badlands
The Predator franchise has been diminishing ever since the alien decided to take on Arnold Schwarzenegger back in 1987. That is, until writer and director Dan Trachtenberg came on board with his 2022 film, Prey. Earlier this year, he gave us the animated Predator: Killer of Killers, and now he takes the story to a…
Stu Loves Film 