Khan is the best Trek film, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Preferably on an alien planet, with ripped uniforms. And one of us has to be a Gorn.
Samaritan - the Stallone newbie on Amazon. It’s ok. The trailer made it out to be a better film. He plays a bin man who is suspected by a kid of being the superhero Samaritan, who had ‘died’ in a fight years ago, killed by his nemesis, Nemesis. Meanwhile, Euron Greyjoy is a Nemesis fanboy who wants to finish the carnage that his wet dream hero started.
That’s about it. The kid is ok, and Stallone plays this type of role effortlessly. It’s an entertaining enough diversion, but doesn’t do anything particularly memorably. The best scenes are early on, with Sly cutting an effective figure as a loner going about his business in the rain.
Everything, Everywhere All At Once - I found this equal parts incredible, bewildering, offputting, enrapturing and sweet. Occasionally the visual onslaught felt *too* silly, and the body-jacking stuff horribly confusing, but I’m glad I stuck through the tougher bits, because this film is a creative treat. The silly bits all made sense within the internal logic of the premise, and once I accepted that, I was good with it. Michelle Yeoh puts in a belter of a turn, and Short Round is bloody great. Jamie Lee Curtis is superb, too.
The whole thing is a raging torrent of crazy, yet the fundamental heart of the story is age-old and simple. It’s a film about choices, family and acceptance. The Sliding Doors stuff mixed with It’s A Wonderful Life. Knowing what happiness is, communicating with each other, and placing love at the centre of life. Everything else hangs off this classically simple framework in a derivative, yet highly inventive, manner. I liked it.
Samaritan - the Stallone newbie on Amazon. It’s ok. The trailer made it out to be a better film. He plays a bin man who is suspected by a kid of being the superhero Samaritan, who had ‘died’ in a fight years ago, killed by his nemesis, Nemesis. Meanwhile, Euron Greyjoy is a Nemesis fanboy who wants to finish the carnage that his wet dream hero started.
That’s about it. The kid is ok, and Stallone plays this type of role effortlessly. It’s an entertaining enough diversion, but doesn’t do anything particularly memorably. The best scenes are early on, with Sly cutting an effective figure as a loner going about his business in the rain.
Everything, Everywhere All At Once - I found this equal parts incredible, bewildering, offputting, enrapturing and sweet. Occasionally the visual onslaught felt *too* silly, and the body-jacking stuff horribly confusing, but I’m glad I stuck through the tougher bits, because this film is a creative treat. The silly bits all made sense within the internal logic of the premise, and once I accepted that, I was good with it. Michelle Yeoh puts in a belter of a turn, and Short Round is bloody great. Jamie Lee Curtis is superb, too.
The whole thing is a raging torrent of crazy, yet the fundamental heart of the story is age-old and simple. It’s a film about choices, family and acceptance. The Sliding Doors stuff mixed with It’s A Wonderful Life. Knowing what happiness is, communicating with each other, and placing love at the centre of life. Everything else hangs off this classically simple framework in a derivative, yet highly inventive, manner. I liked it.
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