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When it takes over thirty minutes for a film to go anywhere even remotely interesting, for my money, something is wrong. "Return to Silent Hill" lacks both pace and scares; in short, I found it boring. It's not the actors' fault; they hand in decent performances. Its story, in my opinion, needed to be reworked to make it more engaging and exciting. In summary, acting is fine, but I found the story lackadaisical and dull. Can't recommend this one.…

Full review: https://fandomwire.com/the-wrecking-crew-review/ Rating: B- "The Wrecking Crew is a competent action experience that survives thanks to that contagious energy and Ángel Manuel Soto's direction, which knows how to value physical spectacle, resulting in a film that, even if it doesn't reinvent the wheel, offers two hours of honest and amusing escapism. The technical execution of the action and the magnetism of Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista frequently collide with the soullessness of a shamelessly algorithmic script, but in the end, the protagonists' charisma ensures victory, p…

There is something magically simple about these sequences of animations. As it says on the can, we start with that famous smile on Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” and then skilfully morph into paintings from just about everyone from Picasso and Van Gogh to Warhol and Munch in the next seven minutes. It’s the comprehensiveness that’s impressive here, with all styles of contemporary, impressionist and abstract art included in a short feature that could challenge even the most studious of art critics to name each of the thirty five works that are (apparently) included. Often the colours appear textured, a…

Perhaps it was “Donnie Darko” (2001) or maybe even “Watership Down” (1978) but I’ve sometimes found rabbits in movies actually quite menacing! It is probably safe to say, however,  that this “Bunny” has seen the last of her hopping days as she prepares some cake mix in her kitchen. There’s a pesky moth hovering about which she manages to coax out of the window but then it returns - only to find itself now an integral part of the mixture. Rather than fish it out, she shoves it all in a tin and into the oven. Extra protein, I suppose. Anyway, she’s a bit zonked now so retreats to her chair for a…

I like Daniel Greaves’s style of animation and I enjoyed this mischievous mix of techniques as his hand-drawn little man explores his new - entirely white and flat - surroundings whilst trying to escape them before he ends up in the waste-paper basket. Along the way he proves quite ingenious but also suffers some entertainingly cruel treatment at the hands of his rather unfeeling creator. Some of this is crafted in 2D with other scenes giving him that extra dimension, and the seamless way these are combined show off considerable skill from an artist with a sense of fun.…

Well I suppose that if Atlas could hold up the world, then these three ageing beauties could support the remnants of a temple. Thing is, there’s not much left of it - or them, and so as the weather takes it’s toll you sense it’s only a matter of time before the whole edifice comes a-tumbling down. It’s fine, this, as far as it goes with an animation style I felt was reminiscent of “The Flintstones” - but I didn’t quite get why they had to become topless nor was I sure what the Tudor-esque soundtrack was all about at the end. Perhaps inspired by Lord Byron, but I doubt he would feel too inspire…

A team of posh Brits are playing charades. One player seems to be able to effortlessly convey his clues to the panel, the other couldn’t get them to guess “Superman” as he emerges from a phone box and flies through the air in a cape! Along the way, just about every film you can imagine is named, wrongly, and never before have “Killer Squid” or “The Last Time I Saw Paris” been quite so daftly attributed. I enjoyed the increasing look of exasperation on the character failing quite so spectacularly, as I did some of his hints that reminded me a little of the sketch cartoons we found in newspapers…

A fur-clad carpenter fells a grand tree amidst the pristine woods of Quebec and uses some of the wood to build a rocking chair. It soon becomes the property of his fiancée, then his wife, then a toy for their children that allows them to play choo choo and emulate the newly arrived railway as they grew up and the city of Montreal starts to grow up around them. Over time, the chair has it’s fair share of scrapes until eventually is is discarded and ends up, rather poetically, being an accidental exhibit in a modern art museum - when not being used by the commissionaire. I really enjoyed this. T…

Very disappointed in this series. I know the books well, having read them multiple times, and I also know that no movie adaptaion can ever capture all the details and nuances of the original sories. I did not expect that, but neither did I expect to be insulted by ridiculous changes that do not enhance anything. After a decent start, this series has quickly devolved into garbage. It had possibilities in the beginning, seeming to deal fairly well with the actual story of the Foundation, but wasted tons and tons of time on some ridiculous ideas that were not at all in the original (such …

“Frank” (Kim Bodnia) makes a decent living dealing drugs with his skinhead pal “Tonny” (Mads Mikkelsen) until one deal goes a bit pear shaped. That doesn’t go down so well with his supplier, “Milo” (Zlatlo Buric) but when you’re €45k in the hole, you might as well try to deal your way out of it so he promises to make that cash back from the next deal. That goes even worse when the cops intervene and the cocaine ends up in a lake. He’s released from custody, takes his revenge on his erstwhile pal who was a better runner when they were nicked and then heads to his boss to explain that he’s now e…