Designer, Cosplayer, Collector, General Idiot
An amazing, spectacular, and thrilling adventure with plenty of humour and sweet moments, as well as a few emotional swings. And yet, despite all the fun and great moments, I was left ever so mildly unsatisfied as not everything sticks the landing.
The live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop is a heap of messy and anachronistic fun and is enjoyable for the most part but its biggest flaws, ironically, come from its hard adherence and fidelity to the original anime.
A thrilling and exciting final adventure for Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007 but the baggage Not Time to Die carries from its immediate predecessor may have prevented it from being a truly satisfying swan song for this incarnation of James Bond.
In spite of its scope and ambition, Eternals doesn’t quite hit it over the fence but the combination of arthouse sensibilities with the superhero spectacle is admirable in their contrasts and enjoyable enough in this refreshing shift from the often criticised MCU formula.
While Squid Game tries to surprise with every twist and turn of the plot, how it gets there via these characters and all the graphic violence juxtaposed with delightfully simple children’s games is the most compelling part of this streaming phenomenon from South Korea. … Continue readingREVIEW – Squid Game (season 1)