Category: Movie Review

Principal Cast : Qui Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-tat, Zhao Jinmai, Wu Jing, Ardaky Sharogradsky, Mike Sui, Qu Jingjing, Zang Yichi, Yang Haoyu, Li Hong Chen, Yang Yi, Jiang Zhigang, Zhang Huan. Synopsis: The sun was dying out, people all around the world built giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and to sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500 years journey came with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth…

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Principal Cast : Brianna Denski, Ken Hudson Campbell, Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick,Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald, Wippa, Mila Kunis, John Oliver, Norbert Leo Butz, Oev Michael Urbas, Kevin Chamberlin, Kate McGregor-Stewart. Synopsis: Wonder Park tells the story of an amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive. ******** Do your children enjoy a good existential crisis? Can they handle multiple layers of emotional juxtaposition and an absurd obviousness in imaginary characters working as scaffolding for the central character to grow and learn and develop through? Then Wonder…

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Principal Cast : Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Joan Cusack, Bradley Whitford, Mamoudou Athie, Karan Soni, Mary Holland, Hamish Linklater, Annaleigh Ashford, Martha MacIsaac, Chris Witaske, Ryan Hansen. Synopsis: A woman named Kit receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfil her childhood dreams. ******** Although filmed in 2016, and shown to select festival audiences during 2017, Brie Larson’s debut directorial effort, Unicorn Store, has finally found a niche home on Netflix for us all to enjoy. It’s a sweet little film, very much living up to its “arthouse independent” tags,…

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Principal Cast : Freddie Prinze Jr, Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tcheky Karyo, David Suchet, Jurgen Prochnow, David Warner, Ginny Holder, hugh Quarshie, Ken Bones, John McGlynn, Richard Dillane, Mark Powley, David Fahm, Simon MacCorkindale, Craig Kelly. Synopsis:  Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe. ******** Very few cinematic films I have seen venture into territory so egregiously awful, so embarrassingly bad, so unimaginably unwatchable, as that achieved by Chris Roberts’ 1999 sci-fi adventure Wing Commander. Based on…

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Principal Cast : John C Reilly, Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Rufus Jones, Susy Kane. Synopsis: Laurel and Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song – a gruelling theatre tour of post-war Britain. ******** It’s obvious from the first frame that Stan & Ollie is a film made with unique love for its subjects: namely, legendary comedy duo Stan Laurel And Oliver Hardy, a pairing on-screen that lasted from the late 1920’s until…

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Principal Cast : Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Rebecca Ferguson, Angus imrie, Patrick Stewart, Denise Gough, Noma Dumezweni, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Mark Bonnar, Alexandra Roach, Genevieve O’Reilly. Synopsis: A band of kids embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace. ******** In the insular world of online film fandom, the name Joe Cornish is met with the reverence and awe of the most esteemed cult figures. The acclaimed Attack The Block helmer, also known for his scripting duties on projects such as The Adventures of Tintin…

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Principal Cast : Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Ben Falcone, Stephen Spinella, Anna Deavere Smith, Christian Navarro, Erik LaRay Harvey, Brandon Scott Jones, Shaw D’Lyn, Marc Evan Jackson, Gregory Korostishevsky, Kevin Carolan, Michael Cyril Creighton. Synopsis: When New York biographer Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, fraudulently selling old correspondence of famous authors. ******** It quickly becomes apparent that Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a film designed purely to win awards. A nominally excellent British actor,…

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