Gran Turismo (2023) - Movie Review

Video game movies tend to come in two flavours. They’re either about video game characters in their separate video game world, or they’re about those characters making in their way into the ‘real world’. On both counts, studios have historically struggled with making such movies worthwhile, although with the recent successes of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (I specify the sequel because the original is still pretty naff), that tide has definitely been turning of late.

Demonic (2021) - Movie Review

Much like with Bliss, I picked this feature to look at partly because it hadn’t gotten a good reception from audiences and critics (hell, I think this one has been received even worse than Bliss), but also because part of me still hopes for something worthwhile here. And in the case of Demonic, that desire is largely off the back of writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s last film Chappie, which still has one of my all-time favourite endings of any film I’ve reviewed on here. It’s the kind of finale that managed to make up for just how mishandled everything leading up to it had been, so I’m basically going into this with the anticipation that it might not work out, but still hoping for something that measures up to that flash of brilliance, if only for a moment.