The first thing to know about The Electric State is that the whole thing is daft as tits on a tank. It has the same blend of deadly seriousness and utter lunacy that one finds in, say, Who Killed Roger Rabbit?
I didn’t do a lot of reviews this past year. Fifty three in all. It was an election year and I write mostly about politics, and I have a backlog going into 2025. Also, if I think something is rubbish, I’m very unlikely to review it. And there was a fair old bit of rubbish that came out last year.
Directed & Screenplay by Chris Sanders Based on The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Produced by Jeff Hermann Starring Lupita Nyong’o Pedro Pascal Kit Connor Bill Nighy Stephanie Hsu Mark Hamill Catherine O’Hara Matt Berry Ving Rhames Cinematography Chris Stover Edited by Mary Blee Music by Kris Bowers Production company DreamWorks Animation Distributed by Universal …
G-1.0 Japanese name Katakana ゴジラ マイナスワン Transcriptions Directed by Takashi Yamazaki Written by Takashi Yamazaki Visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki & Kiyoko Shibuya Produced by Minami Ichikawa, Shūji Abe, Kenji Yamada, Kazuaki Kishida, Gō Abe, Keiichirō Moriya Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki Minami Hamabe Yuki Yamada Munetaka Aoki Hidetaka Yoshioka Sakura Ando Kuranosuke Sasaki Cinematography Kōzō Shibasaki …
Dune Part II Directed by Denis Villeneuve Screenplay by Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts Based on Dune by Frank Herbert Produced by Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Patrick McCormick, Tanya Lapointe, Denis Villeneuve Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the exiled Duke of House Atreides who sides with the Fremen to overthrow the tyrannical House Harkonnen Zendaya …
A Year in review: a review of 2023 2023 was another great year for television. Among other great shows we watched (and I reviewed) this year were Gen V (outrageous spin-off of The Boys), One Piece (excellent live-action version of a rather dumb anime), a new BBC remake of War of the Worlds, an engaging …
Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Peter Tam Lee Starring Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu Ke Huy Quan Jenny Slate Harry Shum Jr. James Hong Jamie Lee Curtis Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Paul …
Directed by Gerard Johnstone Screenplay by Akela Cooper Story by Akela Cooper & James Wan Produced by Jason Blum & James Wan Starring Allison Williams Jenna Davis Violet McGraw Cinematography Peter McCaffrey Edited by Jeff McEvoy Music by Anthony Willis Production companies Blumhouse Productions, Atomic Monster, Poductions, Divide/Conquer Distributed by Universal Pictures Haunted doll type …
White Noise Directed by Noah Baumbach Screenplay by Noah Baumbach Based on White Noise by Don DeLillo Produced by Noah Baumbach, David Heyman & Uri Singer Characters Adam Driver as Prof. Jack Gladney Greta Gerwig as Babette Gladney Don Cheadle as Prof. Murray Siskind Raffey Cassidy as Denise Sam Nivola as Heinrich May Nivola as …
Glass Onion Directed by Rian Johnson Written by Rian Johnson Produced by Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson Starring Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a detective Edward Norton as Miles Bron, a New York billionaire Janelle Monáe as Helen and Andi Brand Kathryn Hahn as Claire Debella, the governor of Connecticut, Leslie Odom Jr. as Lionel Toussaint, …