D.C.Reviews

  In an evergrowing world full of generitive AI content Wildwood stands out as both a technical and creative marvel. Created by hand with so much love and care it's evident to see that Laika are true masters of their craft and love cinema. Wildwood tells the epic tale of a young girl's journey into a mysterious woods after her young baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows. Young Prue Mckeel takes it upon herself to rescue her brother whatever the cost. Along her journey she is joined by a local boy named Curtis and as the two get seperated their stories intertwine and intersect as bandits, animals and magic all stand in between Prue and her brother.  From the creators of Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings it's clear right away that Wildwood is a lot like those movies at least visually. But tonally this is Laika's most mature movie yet not shying away from violence, mature themes and even some blood. The scale of the setpieces are absolutely breathtaking includ...

I was lucky enough to see Clayface a few days before it's official release and boy oh boy what a time this movie is. The big screen debut of one of Batman's most classic villains is finally here and for my money it has been more than worth the wait. The story of Clayface follows an actor named Matt Hagen. Fresh off of being nominated for an academy award his life gets turned upside down when he gets entagled with a local crime boss after spending the night with the crime boss's girlfriend. What follows is a visceral, bloody and at times emotional movie packed with body horror, betrayal, intense moments and a final act that is as tragic as it is utterly compelling. Tom Rhys Harries stars as Matt Hagen and is absolutely mesmarising in the role of the actor. He is so handsome and his face almost sculpted like that it and it alone adds so much to the narrative and emotional aspect. The way his face moves and sort of distorts is really well done and while stomach turning at time...

  Another passing week and yet another video game movie adaptation hits the big screen. This time around Street Fighter gets a glow up from it's original 1994 counterpart. Based upon the smash hit fighting arcade style video game Street Fighters mainly centers around it's two main iconic characters Ryu and Ken. Set in the 90's once friends now estranged the two are forced back together when they're recurited to take part in a giant fighting tournament held by the mysterious and evil Lord M. Bison. What follows is a over the top at times very messy movie that tries to be a lot of things and while it succeeds in some aspects in others it falls flat on it's fast resulting in a TKO.  For starters the characters apart from Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li are pushed aside for the most part. It's got a pretty beefy runtime of two hours and it struggles a lot to warrant having so many characters for the most part even so much so that the fight tournament itself is kicked, beaten a...

I loved the original Social Network movie way back in 2010. At the time it not only introduced me to Jesse Eisenberg but it also put writer Aaron Sorkin on my radar and ever since I've loved his work. It's now 2026 and Aaron Sorkin is now not only in the writing role but also is now director in a movie that is nowhere near as good as it's 2010 counterpart. Mikey Madison fresh off her Best Actress Oscar win for Anora plays real life whistleblower Francis Haugen who along with Jeremy Allen White's Wall Street Journal journalist Jeff Horwitz expose Facebook's most guarded secrets.  Right off the bat it's clear that this movie is vastly different than the movie from 2010 which David Fincher directed. It's a lot less suave and doesn't really have any sort of fancy camera shots and tricks. In a way it's very one note in a sense and that's sort of what Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as here as Jeremy Strong plays a much older version of the Facebook now M...

  In a way Verity reminded me so much of last years movie The Housemaid. Woman goes to stay with a husband and wife where things begin to slowly happen and turn ugly it's very much the same here in a sense as Verity tells the story of three people interconnected by truth, despair and other ungodly antics. Dakota Johnson stars as a young woman hired to be the ghost writer for a renowned author played by Anne Hathaway who after suffering a tragic accident has been left paralyzed. What follows pretty much your run of the mill will they won't they plot with Johnson's character and Hathaway's husband who is played by Josh Hartnett. It's pretty slick in style but it really lacks in any sort of real substance as for the most part it's just rather mundane and boring what is unfortunate. Verity suffers from not truly knowing what it is at the core of it's narrative. Is it an erotic thriller? no really no, is it a dramatic piece? more so but still not really as it bou...

  Now that the Mission Impossible franchise has ended and Tom Cruise is no longer shackled as IMF agent Ethan Hunt I was really hoping he would take more risks, be more adventourous and boy oh boy is this movie all of that combined and more. Digger is a black comedy satire focused solely on climate change, the disaster that could possibly await Earth and all that inhabit it. Tom Cruise who is wearing prosthetic makeup rather brilliantly plays Digger Rockwell a tycoon who after drilling a bit too much for oil in Greenland creates a diaster of unimaginable circumstances. What follows is two hours brillaintly made, brilliantly written and most importantly brilliant acted cinema that left me totally spent by the time the credits began to roll.  Tom Cruise is phenomenal right from the get go here, from the caring of his dying cat to his stylish wardrobe his performance is purely satire sure but it's also this quick witted almost dumb to the bone oil tycoon that it's hard not to fal...