The feature film debut of Steven S. DeKnight, Pacific Rim: Uprising, takes place a decade after the first film in the franchise, and centres on Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), son of Pacific Rim’s Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba). Rather than delivering rallying speeches atop the foot of a skyscraper-sized kaiju-killing robot like his dear old dad, […]
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Review: Detroit
Ostensibly a film revolving around villains vs. victims – as some critics have lamentably suggested -, Kathryn Bingelow’s Detroit is so much more. This is a suffocating piece of cinema that provokes the viewer and is saturated with the deft nuance that won her an Oscar for The Hurt Locker in 2010. 43 dead, 1,200 injured, […]
Review: The Circle
Imagine you have only one online service that does everything. You log in once, using your credit card and some personal information, and you are logged in to every single aspect of your life. Frustrated with having remember fifty passwords? The Circle is made for you. “It’s the chaos of the web made elegant”, Mae […]
Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Over the past few months, there have been few films I have looked forward to seeing more than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As trailer after trailer was released, I, along with countless other nerds on the internet picked over details, analysed shots and speculated about everything in these brief snippets – from the back […]