Tag: John Boyega

• Pacific Rim: Uprising Review – Big shoes to fill

  

  You know what? The robots in this film are BIG. I don’t quite know what it is, they certainly aren’t better realised or animated than megastructures in other films. I weren’t even watching it in 3D, lol who even does that anymore, but however it is that you generate that elusive concept of bigness, Steven…

  E Warren

  April 6, 2018

  Film, Review

  Action, Burn Gorman, Cailee Spaeny, Charlie Day, Cinema, Film, Films, Guillermo del Toro, Jing Tian, John Boyega, Legendary Pictures, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Pacific Rim Uprising, Review, Rinko Kikuchi, Scott Eastwood, Steven S. DeKnight, Two Stars, Universal Pictures

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review – The totality of it all

  

  There’s a whole lotta movie in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It doesn’t all work, it can feel muddled and disparate at times, the wild variety of tones that it tries to capture don’t quite settle into a script that feels far more invested in being funny.

  E Warren

  December 15, 2017

  Film, Review, Uncategorized

  Action, Adam Driver, Andy Serkis, Carrie Fisher, Cinema, Daisy Ridley, Disney, Domhnall Gleeson, Film, Films, Four Stars, Gwendoline Christie, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, Lucasfilm, Lupita Nyong’o, Mark Hamill, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Oscar Isaac, Review, Rian Johnson, Science Fiction, Star Wars, The Last Jedi

• Detroit Review – It ain’t right

  

  When I left the screening of Detroit I felt sick. Katheryn Bigelow’s exploration of the killings in the Algiers Hotel during the Detroit race riots of 1967 seems pretty much designed to do that. It’s so unflinching and brazen in its depiction of the brutalisation and murder of its characters that it just pulls a…

  E Warren

  August 10, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Cinema, Drama, Film, Films, Jacob Latimore, John Boyega, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Thriller, Two Stars, Will Poulter

• The Circle Review – Dumb is normal

  

  I don’t think Dave Eggers ever heard of Justin.tv. Or maybe he had and then decided to base his psycho-intrigue tech-thriller on a world where people would latch onto that idea.

  E Warren

  July 5, 2017

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Dave Eggers, Drama, Emma Watson, Film, Films, James Ponsoldt, John Boyega, Karen Gillen, Movie, Movies, Netflix, Opinion, Review, Reviews, The Circle, Thriller, Tom Hanks, Two Star