Thor: Love And Thunder (2022) - Movie Review

After languishing as the dark horse of the main four Avengers of the MCU, Thor seems to have found a firm footing and identity thanks to director Taika Waititi. Namely, that he is the comic relief of the team. This has admittedly been a thing with him since the Kenneth Branagh film, but with Taika’s unique brand of social cringe, it effectively smoothed itself out and made for a high point of the already-impressive Phase Three with Thor: Ragnarok. Naturally, much like Christopher McQuarrie sticking around for the more recent Mission: Impossible films, bringing him back for another trip with the space Viking is a good move. And sure enough, it’s most certainly a Taika Waititi film… although I wouldn’t particularly blame certain audiences for wishing it was more than that.

Annihilation (2018) - Movie Review

 

Watching Alex Garland’s evolution as a creative mind over the last two decades has proven quite fascinating, to the point where ‘evolution’ is the most apt way of describing his trajectory. Starting as a novelist, providing source material for one of Danny Boyle’s most underrated films with The Beach, he went on to collaborate with Boyle more directly, writing the scripts for some of his more widely-celebrated ventures like 28 Days Later. Then he set out to bring his own scripts to life with Ex Machina, one of the strongest sci-fi offerings of the last handful of years.

But this film, Annihilation, is the final test. He’s proven that he can write for multiple media forms, from novels to screenplays to video games, and he’s proven that he’s capable of visual storytelling on top of that. Now, it’s time to see if he can turn the work of someone else, in this case being Jeff VanderMeer’s novel of the same name, into a story that still carries his fingerprint.

Jackie (2017) - Movie Review

Okay, quick bit of context. Earlier in the year, I got picked up by a website called Screenhall; the guy who runs the site contacted me in the comments for one of my reviews and I started writing some reviews for them. However, it's only in the last couple weeks that I discovered something: Screenhall has kind of... vanished. Since those reviews make up part of the lists for 2017, and I don't really like the idea of just leaving all that work in the dust, I'm going to repost them here for your enjoyment. They're formatted a little differently than my usual writing, but it's still me writing them; you can decide for yourself if that's a good thing or not. So, yeah, time for some reposting, starting here with Jackie.

Jane Got A Gun (2016) - Movie Review