The Film Father - Making an Offer You Can’t Review

Starring : Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver Directed by : Scott Derrickson Where It’s Available : Apple TV  I’ve been watching a fair amount of Apple TV lately. Severance is the hottest shit on television right now. Before that, season two of Silo was fantastic, engaging, week-to-week television. Before what seems like every episode I was greeted with an ad for this movie. It looked interesting - who doesn’t like Anya Taylor-Joy, after all? I don’t think she’s capable of making a bad film. But I didn’t quite know what to expect going in. And now, after having watched it, this seems completely by design. The top-level description I can give you is that this movie is part-action, part-horror, part-espionage thriller and part-romance. If that seems like a lot, well… it kind of *is*? But for all those spinning plates, it’s remarkably competent and it does at a bare minimum a passable job in every one of those genres. The film is about two lonely special ops assassins who...

Starring : Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Keegan Michael-Key, et al Directed : Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic Where It’s Available : Amazon Prime in Canada, Netflix in the US Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. My partner would swear that the original 1993 magnum opus, Super Mario Bros. Movie starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo is the best video game movie ever made. … she’s *wrong*, of course. But it’s a bold take. As we get older, we remember things from our childhood much more brighter than perhaps we should (I’m not here to judge as I can be as guilty as anyone - more than half of my favourite films came out before the turn of the century). The Illumination films ‘Super Mario Bros.’ animated film weaponizes that nostalgia in a crass, oddly-cynical way. The result is a film that is… fine, but as instantly forgettable as it is empty and soulless. It was a film that was designed to make money, which is fair - and it obviously did just that with >$550 M dom...