The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot

A robot becomes a surrogate mother for a gosling on an uninhabited island in The Wild Robot. ROZZUM unit 7134 (Lupita Nyong’o), or Roz for short, is a helper robot that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. After learning to communicate with the local wildlife, Roz tries to find a task to complete, though most…

Wendell & Wild

Wendell & Wild – TIFF 2022

Two scheming demons seek the help of a 13-year-old girl to escape the underworld in Wendell & Wild. Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Jordon Peele) are two demon brothers relegated to grooming their father, Buffalo Belzer (Ving Rhames), ruler of the Scream Faire. The demons get their chance to escape when Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross),…

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team faces their most impossible mission in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Following the capture of Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), a new shadowy organization known as The Apostles have formed out of the remains of The Syndicate. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames)…

Wild

Wild

From director Jean-Marc Vallée (Café de Flore, Dallas Buyers Club) comes this drama based on the memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.  Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) is a young woman desperate to escape her troubled life of drug use and promiscuous sex.  As her way to find herself,…

Piranha 3D

Piranha 3D

It’s been ages since there was a truly gimmicky 3D film was released.  Piranha 3D may not have perfect 3D effects, but it was 1000x better than the post-converted afterthoughts studios have been releasing since Avatar hit it big. The film is pretty much what you except it to be: a fairly campy, really gory…

Surrogates

Surrogates

At the very least I can say that Surrogates is a decent sci-fi thriller. I’d say the film obviously has it’s flaws, but it was overall an entertaining film experience. Not really much more I can say. 8/10