film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
Devoid of personality and soul, this hellish Frankenstein monster of processed entertainment product wallows in a stew of borrowed ideas and imagery and does absolutely nothing fresh with them.
A morally muddled mess that is convoluted in plot and appallingly simplistic in its themes. I am a sad geek today.
Most clicked this past week…
Most clicked this past week…
Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.
Neill Blomkamp cements his science-fiction credentials as a filmmaker with a genre vision the likes of which we haven’t seen since the socially conscious SF of the 1970s.
There’s a few bits that may have some bearing on Elysium…
Or The Heat. Or White House Down. Or Grown Ups 2. This is because these films don’t open in the U.K. for weeks and weeks still.
Love of Blomkamp flips around a movie image that’s almost religiously iconic…
Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!
