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A collection of optimistic film reviews on your favourite (and not-so-favourite) movies.
Because the only thing separating a movie from being the perfect film — is the audience.

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REVIEW | Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

The franchise has evolved! Welcome to the new standard of adaptations. In a fictional world where Pokémon (Pocket Monsters) live among...

REVIEW | Missing Link (2019)

You’ll learn to love anything that’s LAIKA-ble. Criminally, creatively, and cinematically underrated. As an eccentric and aspiring...

REVIEW | Hellboy (2019)

Aww yeah! Hellboy’s back from the dead! In which The Right Hand of Doom gets an awesome R-rated reboot. Brought to earth as a baby by...

REVIEW | Burn Out (2017)

Oh ho ho ho ho! C’est un  Vroom Vroom, Bang Bang — no? In which Netflix boosts the two-wheel theatre with a French feature film. Tony is...

REVIEW | Us (2019)

Don’t like sleeping? Well, step right in. Jordan Peele doesn’t give a damn whether you believe in ghosts or not. A family of four takes a...

REVIEW | Captain Marvel (2019)

“Higher, Further, Faster, baby.” This one will make a ‘true believer’ out of you. Carol Danvers is a noble and powerful warrior for the...

REVIEW | Annihilation (2018)

Somebody snubbed something really special here. It’s not destroying. It’s making something new. After discovering that her missing...

REVIEW | Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Trust me — your eyes would be just as big if you saw this movie. They should add “Waaay better than it deserves to be” on the poster....

REVIEW | Glass (2019)

They always underestimate the mastermind. There’s only one true hero around here — and that’s the unsung director, M. Night Shyamalan....

REVIEW | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

“Oooooh-whee! Them Coen boys done did it again!” Don’t let those formal trailers fool ya. Cause this here’s a symphonic masterpiece. An...

REVIEW | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

Not quite a wolf, not quite a man — but definitely untamed. In the jungles of Kipling’s classic, no one can hear you sing. Abandoned...

REVIEW | Bumblebee (2018)

Fan favourite, family friendly, and now — franchise forerunner. Relax everyone, Michael Bay’s taking the backseat on this one. After...

REVIEW | Aquaman (2018)

A son of the land. A king of the seas. And a marine-monument of a movie. That’s right folks — talking to fish is cool again. Born of...

REVIEW | Spider-Man: Into The Spider-verse (2018)

🎵SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-HAM, FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD SPIDER-GWEN.🎵 Even J. Jonah Jameson’s got nothing on this amazing spider entry. After...

REVIEW | Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Are you ready, Hey! Are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge of your seat? An uplifting, upbeat, and unapologetic celebration...

REVIEW | First Man (2018)

In which ‘out of this world’ becomes Damien Chazelle’s speciality. Strap yourself in for some filmmaking elegance, infused with rocket...

REVIEW | Venom (2018)

— man and symbiote combined.  This is a new face, a new series, and a long time coming. Venom is leaps and bounds ahead of your friendly...

REVIEW | The Predator (2018)

It tracks its prey, exploits weakness. And makes one hell of a show. The next step in the evolutionary series— with a lil’ bit-a humour,...

REVIEW | Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)

We thought we had seen enough, but the war we thought was finished is just beginning. A terrific entry in the franchise — with Better...

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