The Misfits (2021) - Movie Review

This production is something of a meeting-of-the-minds for two creatives attached to some of the first films I ever reviewed on here. There’s director Renny Harlin, who gave us the raw forgettability of The Legend Of Hercules (and is also the guy who helped kill pirate cinema as a mainstream genre until Jack Sparrow showed up), and then there’s co-writer Kurt Wimmer, who managed to make the Point Break remake even more dated than the original, and who specialises in aggressively style-over-substance action flicks. This review is more a matter of curiosity than anything else, but even knowing their respective histories in the business, I still wasn’t prepared for just how atrocious this team-up would turn out.

Big Hero 6 (2014) - Movie Review

 

There’s a certain high expectation that comes attached with anything animated by Disney/Pixar, and for the most part it’s deserved: Whether it’s older classics like Fantasia and The Nightmare Before Christmas or more modern successes like Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, Disney has a good pedigree for quality entertainment… mostly. The last few years have muddied the waters a bit for the company, what with the baffling continuation of the Cars/Planes franchise which is seriously bad enough to throw their entire filmography into question. However, they are still releasing good family films, one of the few studios that still is, so my expectations are still at a decent level for today’s feature: This is Big Hero 6.