Category: Films
Terminator Dark Fate (trailer: scifi movie).
Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (T-800) return in their roles in Terminator: Dark Fate, directed by Tim Miller(Deadpool) and produced by visionary filmmaker James Cameron and David Ellison. Following the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator: Dark Fate also stars Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, and Diego Boneta. Terminator: Dark Fate […]
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (horror movie: trailer).
Here’s a new horror movie from Guillermo del Toro and director André Øvredal, called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. And its blurb is … It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, […]
Ad Astra (scifi movie trailer).
Ad Astra is an new near-future science fiction movie directed by James Gray with Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland acting in the film. Plot-wise, it looks like some kind of disaster called ‘The Surge’ takes out Earth’s new surface-to-space beanstalk transporter, sending astronaut Brad Pitt off in search […]
The Andromeda Strain (1971) (Blu-ray film review).
I’ve always had some affection for ‘The Andromeda Strain’. Next to ‘2001’, it was probably one of first hard science SF films I’d seen with a no-star cast, although I did recognise James Olsen from ‘The Time Tunnel’ as I originally saw this film when it first came out. This is also the first book […]
The Kitchen (cri-fi movie trailer).
The Kitchen stars Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me? Bridesmaids), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) as three 1978 Hell’s Kitchen housewives whose mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia’s matters into their […]
Annabelle Comes Home (horror movie trailer).
Annabelle Comes Home is the third movie in the Annabelle series starring the sinister doll from the Conjuring universe. Gary Dauberman, the screenwriter of the Annabelle films, IT and The Nun, makes his directorial debut on the film, which is produced by Peter Safran (Aquaman). Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed […]
Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (2019) (movie review).
In ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’, the film’s plot picks up 5 years after the events of the last film, ‘Godzilla’ (2014), when eco-terrorist anarchists led by Alan Jonah begin freeing the Titans, in an attempt to restore the natural order. The central message the film peddles is the rather simplistic humanity=bad, nature=good. We are […]
Ma (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].
![Ma (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].](https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Octavia-Spencer-in-Ma-1-150x150.jpg "Ma (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].")
Mother Nature has a stormy forecast of hackneyed horror cloudiness on the pseudo-suspenseful radar courtesy of director Tate Taylor’s sketchy macabre maternal thriller ‘Ma’ that cryptically encourages its youth to “get home safe”. On paper, ‘Ma’ should be elevated from its generic goosebump DNA given the promising premise of its potential high-wire, shifty shenanigans. Taylor enlists his […]
Mary Poppins Returns (2018) (Blu-ray film review).
If anything, it’s unusual that it took so long for the Disney Studios to do another Mary Poppins film, especially as P.L. Travers wrote so many books about her most famous character. It also has to be very ambitious as the original 1966 film was perfect in every way. Well, apart from using an American […]
Aladdin (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].
![Aladdin (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].](https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/will-smith-genie-aladdin-600x338-150x150.png "Aladdin (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].")
Gather around in unison folks as the continuous chanting of ‘they should have left it well alone’ echoes against the Disney walls. Of course, when the first attempt to strike gold prevails then why not give it a shot the second time around? Unfortunately for the vibrant but lacklustre Guy Ritchie directed/co-written live-action take on […]
