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Friday, 29 December 2023

Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (2023) - Movie Review

The DCEU has finally come to an end. The never-ending Crisis of bad timing, bad management, and just generally bad decisions on the part of Warner Bros. is about to be laid to rest and reborn as (hopefully) something better. Not that it’s been all bad, though. Hell, I’d argue that it wasn’t even mostly bad; Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad (both of them), the Snyder Cut, and, where today’s subject is most pertinent, Aquaman all still hold up as worthy adaptations of the DC pantheon of heroes. I still have my issues with the franchise’s lesser moments (all the turning-around I’ve done on Zack Snyder still hasn’t made Man Of Steel look any friggin’ better), and the tail-end has led to some truly inexplicable releases like Black Adam and the Skittles movie, but as someone who still holds a torch for capeshit, I want these movies to be good. Which is why this last hurrah is especially disappointing.

Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Elliot The Littlest Reindeer (2018) - Movie Review


 
https://redribbonreviewers.wordpress.com/2018, more so than a lot of years previously, has shown that the trend of family films about talking animals has been a scourge on the landscape of modern cinema. It’s the one sub-genre that I can tie to some of this year’s worst product, and whichever ones that are actually worth bothering with are few and far between. And sure enough, we got another weaksauce one today.