Home Version 2

Movies

Jurassic World: Rebirth – Movie Review

What’s it about?

Dinosaurs in the city have mostly died out but they’re still flourishing in remote islands around the equator. Turns out they could also hold the key to some pretty major human disease breakthroughs, so BACK TO THE ISLAND PEOPLE GO. AGAIN.

What’d we think?

Despite my sarcasm in the description, Jurassic World: Rebirth feels like a return to form for a franchise that was getting a bit tired and stupid. It’s gone back to what it should be: characters going “Ooooh dinos! Wait, OH NO, dinos!” Then chasing and chomping. Not “hey here’s some crazy dino science you won’t understand and also somehow our main problem now is giant locusts and not dinosaurs.” Some plot holes but who cares when the chases are this tense and Jonathan Bailey has those little glasses on.
8

Movies

How To Train Your Dragon movie review

Will the dragons reach new heights? Or plummet to the depths?
8

Movies

The Accountant 2 – Movie Review

You know what Rain Man was missing? Guns.
8

Movies

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Movie Review

Does love have an expiration date?

I, Tonya

By Stephen Scott
7 years ago

What’s it about?
The true story of a poor but gifted ice skater who became embroiled in an assault charge on a competitor.

What we thought

Dan says: I expected this film to be ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ but with skating and knee bludgeoning. Instead, the two dimensional villain from the 24/7 news cycle turns out to be a nuanced and tragic, actual human being. The tale is a poem of violence and bullying.

I’ve seen films with unreliable narrators before but the charm in this film comes from each of them wilfully fighting each other for narrative control. This film’s character work is intimately shot but will then “double axle” into the ice skating scenes that are so well crafted they actually make ice skating routines watchable.