Kate (2021) - Movie Review

Usually, I would take one look at the director attached to this (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, who also made the phenomenally unnecessary The Huntsman: Winter’s War) and be immediately sceptical about this being anywhere near the neighbourhood of worthwhile. But instead, I was actually looking forward to it because of basically every other name attached to it besides his, namely that of David Leitch’s 87North Productions. This is the studio that, along with its founders, has been pushing modern action cinema into a higher art form over the last several years, and considering star Mary Elizabeth Winstead and her own rising action cred off the back of Gemini Man and Birds Of Prey, I have enough faith in this working out. And honestly, I’d argue that this did work out.

Sorry To Bother You (2018) - Movie Review

There’s something about the outright absurd that serves as a great communicative tool. All the things that people are unwilling or unable to accept about their society or their reality; just throw in some weird shit, and suddenly, it becomes easier to swallow. The filmmaking debut of Boots Riley, renowned figurehead of the weirder side of West Coast hip-hop, follows this pattern, a depiction of modern-day race relations in a similar vein to Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Not that this is as scary as that offering (far from it, this is an actual comedy, unlike whatever the hell people thought Get Out was); rather, it uses an absurdist’s eye for science fiction to make its point. And oddly enough, it’s a fairly similar point.