Out to own today:
Tomorrowland
 | “Clocks counting down are bad,” Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) Old-fashioned sprightly action-adventure has been tied to modern whizz-bang technical filmmaking, for a blockbuster skewing towards the younger members of the audience without alienating older patrons. Positivity woven into the fabric of a movie reminds of early Spielberg and current JJ Abrams. Odds stacked against the protagonists do not twist their optimistic outlooks but instead feed the drive. Making the world a better place is literal and figuratively writ large across TOMORROWLAND. “He thinks you can fix the world,” David (Hugh Laurie) states to lead Casey. When she finds out humankind’s dire straits, a sort of doomsday clock ticking towards population evisceration is now 59 days away, it galvanises. [To read more, click here.] |
Mad Max: Fury Road
 | “Then who killed the world?” The Splendid Angharad (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) It was worth the 30-year wait. Vehicular mayhem on an unpredicted scale. Take that final chase in MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR and have it stretched out over two pulse-hammering hours, and you have something close to this fourth instalment (newbies, don’t fret, no prior knowledge is required). Add in leanly crafted characters, which skilfully speak volumes even though restricted to minimal dialogue, make us care for the fate of the protagonists. [To read more, click here.] |
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