Movie Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (¡SPOILERS!)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the eighth theatrically released live-action film in the Star Wars franchise. It is also the first of the “anthology” “spin-off” films that LucasFilm is planning to do to expand the scope of the franchise. The film tells the story of a group of Rebel spies who steal the plans to the Death Star and set off the events of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The film is directed by Godzilla-director Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker, Ben Mendelsohn, Mads Mikkelsen, and Alan Tudyk. This film was, in my view, a resounding success on many grounds and succeeded at breaking the mold and telling a fascinating and engaging story in a different way in the Star Wars universe!

Movie Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

It feels kind of pointless to give a synopsis for this film given the fact that anyone even half conscious about cinema knows this film is coming out, but, for the sake of it, lets give it a go.

Rogue One is the first film in the new anthology series of Star Wars films, which follow separate stories from the main saga films, which focus on the classic characters. Here the premise is simple, we follow the Rebellion as it comes to know more about the Death Star and how they came to steal the plans which kick off the start of A New Hope.

Movie Review: A MONSTER CALLS (Review #3)

A Monster Calls is the third film by Spanish director J.A. Bayona. The film follows the story of a young boy dealing with his mother being very ill and being bullied at school as he is visited in his dreams by a monster set on teaching him some kind of life lesson. The film stars Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell, and Liam Neeson as the Monster. I was floored by this movie as it was a wonderful combination of stunningly beautiful and emotionally resonant. One of the best films of the year.

Movie Review - INFERNO (Review #2)

Inferno is the third film in the Robert Langdon series, based on the books by best-selling author Dan Brown, directed by Ron Howard. It stars Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, and Sidse Babett Knudsen. This film finds Robert Langdon in a hospital struggling to remember things that happened in the last couple of days. He then gets drawn into a situation where he has to solve a puzzle based on art and history to discover a plague before it is released killing a large portion of the world’s population. I enjoyed this series of books (though I have yet to read Inferno) and really liked Angels and Demons (more on that on Tuesday!). This film was wildly disappointing for me and is the worst of the series thus far.

Movie Review: A MONSTER CALLS (Review #2)

A Monster Calls follows a young boy named Conor (Lewis MacDougall), whose mother (Felicity Jones) is ill from cancer, and gravely so -- she is terminal. Having difficulty dealing with this horrible situation, Conor is visited by a tree monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) at 12:07. On one occasion the monster comes and tells him he is going to narrate him three stories and once he is done Conor will have to tell a fourth one and said story will have to be 'the truth'.

Trailer Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (Trailer #3)

It’s here! It’s here! The final trailer is here! This morning on Good Morning America the good folks over at Disney and LucasFilm dropped the third and final trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (a title I’m still not on board with (I supported Star Wars Anthologies) but either way). As with any Star Wars trailer the hype is always at a fever pitch and no less so in this case when we had the news of it surprisingly dropped on us yesterday.

London Film Festival: A MONSTER CALLS

This week I have the pleasure of attending the London Film Festival, and the first film I had the pleasure of seeing, was J.A. Bayona's film, A Monster Calls! It is a beautiful, emotional film that resonated with me, maybe more than any film I have seen this year!

Trailer Review: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

The first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated Star Wars spinoff film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has officially dropped.  Check it out: