Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer While they can usually be trusted to lack heavily in both plot or any other form of narrative cohesion, disaster films can at least be counted on to provide maximum bang for the visual buck, as filmmakers engage in playful destruction if only to populate the…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer Considered by many to be very topical if not overdue, Al Gore’s follow-up to 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth acts as a righteous reminder of the climate change warnings from the past decade, offering a bittersweet note of victory to the former Vice-President of the United States,…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Film Writer In the world of animation, seasoned viewers have come to know there’s more to the choice at hand than Disney classics. A lot more. When asked about my first suggestion given to newcomers to the genre, I invariably lean towards the works of Hayao…
By Dominic Messier, Editor-in-Chief An anticipated sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi actioner, Pacific Rim: Uprising revisits the near-future where the fate of civilization once again rests in the hands of valiant pilots onboard “Jaegers”, robotic giants built to repel monsters from the ocean’s depths called Kaiju. The battle for Earth’s survival continues as…
Review by Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Film Writer As the fifth (and no doubt not the last) of the Hasbro Toys – inspired line of action figure based sci-fi films, Transformers The Last Knight adds very little to the quickly aging franchise about alien robot shape shifters caught in a never-ending battle for the protection/destruction…