Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) in Thor: Ragnarok
‘Thor: Ragnarok’ review: So childish!
Thor: Ragnarok is a slapstick action comedy made by grown children. ?
Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki) in Thor: Ragnarok
Movies Coming Soon: October 2017
This post is so late that some of the movies have came and gone, but I didn't want to skip a month, so it'll partially be a review post too. I have only watched two movies so far this month, so that won't be hard.
Taron Egerton (Eggsy), Colin Firth (Harry Hart) and Pedro Pascal (Whiskey) in Kingsman: The Golden Circle
‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ review: More of the same
In this new movie, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is now a full-fledged member of the Kingsmen, a spy agency masquerading as a posh tailor shop. When a rejected Kingsman applicant works with an insane drug lord called Poppy (Julianne Moore) to take revenge and destroy all the Kingsmen headquarters, Eggsy and remaining survivor Merlin (Mark Strong) go to America to seek help from their spy cousins, called Statesmen, who own a far more profitable whiskey business as a front than their English counterpart.
Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen
Second impressions: ‘The Queen’
I first watched The Queen many years ago and liked it then. Since it's the 20th anniversary of the week of Princess Diana's death, I thought it's a good idea to revisit it again.
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Movies Coming Soon: September 2017
September looks like a really boring month. I'm looking at the whole list of films that are coming out and feeling a sense of profound disinterest in almost everything being shown. It is slightly better than August, in that there are three movies I am sort of interested in, whereas I only had two last month, but the movie lineup just looks so unappealing to me. And the trend continues for the rest of the year.
Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’ review: An improvement on the horrible ‘On Stranger Tides’, if not as great as the first three movies
If you've read this blog for long enough, you probably would have come across me ranting about Johnny Depp's falling star and declining quality (and often profitability too) of his movies. But I didn't always dislike Johnny Depp. He used to get me excited about his movies, until On Stranger Tides came out and was so clearly a cash grab in which he just phoned in his oddball schtick and exaggerated his Captain Jack Sparrow mannerisms that I started viewing him with a prejudiced eye. (It didn't help that I am still SHOCKED to this day that Alice in Wonderland, another movie I dislike immensely, earned a billion, undeserving, dollars.)
Ryan Reynolds (the Bodyguard) and Samuel L. Jackson (the Hitman) surrounded by singing nuns in The Hitman's Bodyguard
‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ review: Fun action comedy that delivers exactly as it says
The premise of The Hitman's Bodyguard is all in its title: A hitman needs a bodyguard. Since that obviously sounds like a ludicrous idea -- why would an assassin need a bodyguard? -- what else do you expect of it?
Alejandro González Iñárritu directs Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of The Revenant
‘The Revenant’ review: Torturous
I was talking to my colleagues the other day, and the topic got around to how they would never walk out of a movie halfway, no matter how much they dislike it, because they felt that it was just so rude and disrespectful (to the filmmakers and their efforts in making the film, I suppose). And it reminded me of The Revenant. Because I absolutely hated it.
Idris Elba as Roland Deschain and Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers in The Dark Tower
‘The Dark Tower’ review: As a person who didn’t read the books, I enjoyed it
Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower, a long book series with a sprawling mythology and epic battle of good against evil, has finally been made into a movie. I've heard it being talked about for years as this practically unfilmable book series -- kind of like The Lord of the Rings -- that Hollywood has been trying so hard to adapt for at least the last decade, but hasn't been able to succeed until now.
A closer look
Building my LEGO SHIELD Helicarrier
I bought the LEGO SHIELD Helicarrier two years ago. It was a very expensive item that I thought long and hard over, so when I received a large sum of mall vouchers as a freebie for something else I bought, it sped up my decision to get that.
