I suppose it is the job of a serious science fiction story to use the setting of a beyond-human-experience to say something intrinsic about being human. “Arrival” fits right into this framework. It’s a story of the first human interaction…
Arrival
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Crave! episode 28: Doctor Strange, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Slipknot, Mia Blonde — Icedagger
Simon and Steve are pleased to have found in Doctor Strange a superhero film from the Marvel Comic Universe that they can both wholeheartedly endorse, but they’re both a little less overwhelmingly enthusiastic about Never Go Back, Tom Cruise’s latest outing…
Wonderfully Strange
Let’s cut to the chase. I’ll be seeing this again. If you can do so in 3D, all the better, and if there’s an IMAX in your neck of the woods, I reckon it’s worth the price. Dr Strange, the…
Reacher, Cruise-ified
Jack Reacher Never Go Back This is a Tom Cruise movie. That’s a statement likely to evoke strong and opposing responses. His detractors may talk of a predictability of what will happen. They may say he only ever plays himself.…
Crave! episode 27: Inferno, The Girl On The Train, Deepwater Horizon, Skyscraper Stan & Ravens
Episode 27 of Crave! sees Simon and Steve both suffering through Inferno, the new Dan Brown adaptation. They’ve been much more impressed, but not without reservations, by The Girl On The Train. Simon has some positive things to say about…
Deepwater Horizon
Director Peter Berg takes on a big story – the Deepwater Horizon tragedy of 2010 – and treats it with due respect in this dramatic and stirring retelling of one of the big environmental disasters of modern times. It tells…
Crave! episode 26: The Magnificent Seven, Bridget Jones’ Baby, The Beatles, The Secret Life Of Pets
Neither Simon nor Steve can really find too much to say about The Magnificent Seven this week, but they’ve both enjoyed Bridget Jones’ Baby much more than either of them expected they would. Simon has been quite impressed with the overly-punctuated The…
The Magnificent Seven: not a classic, when it needed to be
There’s a lot riding on the horseflesh of this Western. It’s a remake of the 1960 American film The Magnificent Seven, which was itself a remake of a 1954 Japanese film, The Seven Samurai, crafted by the great director Akira…
The Magnificent Seven: not at all magnificent, and not really seven, either
Remake a classic by all means, but if you’re going to remake a much-loved, classic western like The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of Kurosawa Akira’s 1954 classic 七人の侍 (Shichinin no Samurai, The Seven Samurai), then you need to bring something very…
The Secret Life Of Pets: not the film it could — or should — have been
The Secret Life Of Pets has enormous potential. Its central conceit, at least as depicted in trailers, is something along the lines of Toy Story for domestic animals; the quality of the animation is outstanding; the voice talent is top-notch.…