Category: film
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Valerian and the Blah Blah Blah
Let me get straight to the meat of this review. The main problem with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is that there is far too little of the City of a Thousand Planets. In fact, it should have been called Valerian and Laureline. Because that’s what the film really focused on. In…
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Going to the live action, western adaptation of Ghost In The Shell, had my expectations set so low, that within the first five minutes of the film, all I could be was disappointed. I was armed to the teeth with arguments about failing to live up to the original manga and the 1995 anime, when…
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Danger 5 Season Deux
Danger 5 Season 2 kicks off with several bangs, a lot of blow and a big explosion at the end. In between, there is a lot of chaos, for better or worse. For those unacquainted with Danger 5, I wrote about the show a couple of years ago. In short, Danger 5 is a ’60s…
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Lucy
Once again, my friend Mark and I trapse down to the cinema, at my suggestion, to check out Lucy, the new Luc Besson “Philosophical Thriller” at where the eponymous Lucy, played by Scarlett Johannson, gains access to “more then 10 percent of her brain”. Just read that link, cause it’s a popular myth. But when…
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Videodrome
I just finished watching Videodrome (for the third time), and it is one of my favourite movies. Max Renn is an executive at a small cable television station. While attempting to find new material to titillate his viewers, he encounters a show called ‘Videodrome’ And as the movie poster says, “First it controls your mind.…
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SpaceBed 9000
SpaceBed 9000 Elysium is everything that District 9 is not. The obvious message of Universal Health Care that appears in the form of magic SpaceBeds that heal any and all illness. It’s also meant to be about the distribution of wealth as well, I guess, since the hyper-rich apparently all live on this torus ring…
The Screaming Wall 