Very spoilery. Venture in at your own risk, once you’ve paused to put out the recycling. (My review is here.) The theme Despite Silent Night‘s COVID similarities, this is about climate change. It’s just that (a) humans have a penchant for looking for patterns and connections with our real lives, and (b) by now one… Silent Night explained (including that ending) Read More
Silent Night 3.5 stars
Family and friends meet for one last Christmas, before the world ends. Coming in at a pacy hour and 30 minutes – a length many can only dream of when it comes to family Christmas dinners that feel like the end of the world — Silent Night bounces along until almost the end; beautiful, bitterly… Silent Night Read More
The Colony ending
Very spoilery so if you don’t know what happens to your descendants, go now. The astronauts come from Kepler, a planet where the elite of Earth escaped to as Earth was destroyed by pandemics and climate change. There are repeated flashbacks through the film to astronaut Louise Blake as a child, with her father on… The Colony ending Read More
Aniara 4 stars
Earth is burning, and the answer is to move the surviving population to Mars. The final shuttle ride from the doomed planet blends the humdrum with the remarkable: a mum tries to make her child understand the finality of what they’re doing and wave at their old home (“want to say bye-bye Earth? … you’ll… Aniara Read More
The Dead Don’t Die 3.5 stars
The Dead Don’t Die is allegory with the occasional big dose of very pleasing karma thrown in, along with some intestines. And a lot of dry humour, as otherworldly yet Scottish undertaker Zelda (Tilda Swinton), making up two dead golfers with day-glow eye make up, spits out an accusatory “are you in this together?” at… The Dead Don’t Die Read More
The Met Office Has Fallen! A Second Geostorm Trailer Is Here & Gerry’s In Space…
Check out my Geostorm review here. Plus my article If Gerard Butler Worked In My Office. The satellites that control the weather on Earth start causing it to go crazy and it looks like – yes – a Geostorm. I know this as in the trailer someone who knows about geostorms says “GEOSTORM!” In the new Geostorm trailer there’s a great… The Met Office Has Fallen! A Second Geostorm Trailer Is Here & Gerry’s In Space… Read More