Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – Lifeless
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Rutger Hauer, Kris Wu Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes The very bad trailer told us this was going … [Read More..]
Atomic Blonde – Lots of style, little substance
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by David Leitch. Starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones, James Faulkner, Til Schweiger, Bill Skarsgard Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes Charlize Theron seems to be typecast … [Read More..]
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power – Simple yet powerful
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen. With Al Gore Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth is followed up with a Sequel that shows us the Earth isn’t even … [Read More..]
The Dark Tower – Lacklustre
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. Starring Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Abbey Lee Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes Not having read any of the eight The Dark Tower books there was no chance of … [Read More..]
The Hitman’s Bodyguard – For the chemistry between Reynolds and Jackson
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Patrick Hughes. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Salma Hayek, Gary Oldman, Elodie Yung Running time: 2 hours Too long, poorly edited, totally predictable and terribly directed, The Hitman’s Bodyguard is watchable for the … [Read More..]
