Review: M3GAN – Gerard Johnstone
Review of M3GAN; Cady, a little girl of nine years old, is forced to live with her aunt Gemma after her parents are killed in a car accident. Gemma, an ambitious roboticist at a high-tech toy company, quickly discovers she is way out of her depth when it comes to caring after a child. To help both herself and Cady, Gemma constructs M3GAN, a robot doll companion for her niece to bond with.
M3GAN quickly proves to be a work of genius, exceeding everyone’s expectations. However, the question arises: are there limits to what technology can and should do instead of humans?
Review: Nimona – Netflix
“Nimona” is an animated movie based on the graphic novel of the same name by N.D. Stevenson. The story revolves around a knight who has fallen from grace, Sir Ballister Blackheart. He is joined by a young shapeshifter named Nimona, as they try to uncover the truth of who is really responsible for the crime Ballister has been framed for.
Nimona, with her whimsical and unpredictable nature, brings a lot of chaos to Ballister’s earnest attempt to find out who was truly responsible for his own banishment. But who, really, is she even?
With its witty dialogue, vibrant animation, and engaging storyline, “Nimona” explores what it’s like to be an outsider in a world that likes to keep outsiders firmly behind a wall.
Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Evelyn Quan Wang is a tired Chinese American trying to run a shabby laundromat with her husband Waymond. Nothing is easy: Evelyn’s marriage is in shambles, and so is her relationship with her daughter.
When the business is audited by the IRS, Evelyn is suddenly thrust into an adventure beyond her wildest imagination.
Review: Matilda the Musical – Matthew Warchus
Matilda is a clever girl born into a family that doesn’t really appreciate it. More often than not, Matilda finds that she has to educate her parents, instead of the other way around.
Ready to learn, Matilda is very excited to go to school. However, it seems that her new headmistress is a true tyrant. To set things right, Matilda has to unearth some dark secrets as well as learn some very special skills.
Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story – Ron Howard
Solo tells the origin story of none other than Han Solo, the beloved rogue-turned-good-guy from the Original Star Wars Trilogy.
After his escape from the slums of his native Corellia, Han tries to join a rogue crew to seek a fortune – not for himself, but so he can return later and rescue someone he had to leave behind.
Unfortunately, not everything goes as Han had hoped it would…
Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein
In a movie that feels eerily similar to playing a table top roleplaying game, a bard and a barbarian freshly out of imprisonment as a result of a heist going south are looking to gather a new party for – you guessed it – another heist to set everything right that went awry the last time.
Review: Ghost in the Shell – Mamoru Oshii
An almost completely prosthetic cyborg, is an agent in a shady police/intelligence unit tasked with counter-terrorism and cybersecurity in a near future Japan. When she finds the trail of a cybercriminal best known for hacking a person’s cerebral implants, she is pulled into a dangerous manhunt infused with questions of identity and humanness.
Review: Pacific Rim – Guillermo del Toro
Review of the movie Pacific Rim.
For several years now, giant monsters (Kaiju) have been coming up from the ocean and attacking coastal cities. Humanity built big old robots (Jaegers) to fight the Kaiju. This is humanity’s last stand.
Review: Troll – Roar Uthaug
Review of the Netflix movie Troll.
As a drilling operation in the Norwegian mountains results in a mysterious eruption that kills several people, paleontologist Nora Tidemann is summoned to share her theories on what happened.
Review: Avatar II: The Way of Water – James Cameron
Inevitably, the Sky People return to Pandora. Jake Sully organises the Na’vi resistance. But when he finds out the humans are specifically targeting him and the family he has built in their absence, he decides that the best way to protect his family and the clan that adopted him is to move far away, to where the human’s can’t find them. Right?
Review: Avatar – James Cameron
In this visual spectacle, a disabled marine, travels to the distant moon of Pandora to join a corporate mining operation. He will enter the avatar-programme, whose members transfer their consciousness to human-alien hybrid clones to communicate with the local population.
Review: The Martian – Ridley Scott
NASA Astronaut Mark Watney was only supposed to be on Mars for 31 days. When a Dust storm almost kills him, the rest of the crew leaves – under the impression that their colleague is actually dead. In his logs, Watney keeps track of his days (or “sols” – Mars days) on the Red planet, and his efforts to survive on the supplies and equipment left behind with him. Every so often Mars tries to kill him, but Watney is resourceful and keeps his spirits up with humour.