A relentlessly inventive movie, Colossal is perfect for the wonderful Anne Hathaway. The cross matching of alcoholism and a monster are only the start. Nacho Vigalondo has written and directed on a small budget but with "huge" results.
Instantly forgettable, but tense and exciting while it lasted, Ridley Scott's latest dose of the Alien franchise digs out all we had forgotten or remembered from previous episodes. Katherine Waterston is the new Ripley, aided and abetted this time by Michael Fassbender's creepy and devious synthetic Walter. Not much of a story, not much of a script, but it looks good on a really big screen.
The same can be said of the latest Pirates movie, a deliberate mash up "cut and past" as one critic described it) of what we have seen before. Fortunately I missed Part 4, and was encouraged to go by my post for Part 3 almost exactly ten years ago. (Although I referred to that as the last in the series. How wrong I was.) This one goes on far too long and sags somewhere around the middle. But there are some funny moments to go along with the general mayhem. Sometimes it's best to sit back and enjoy the production design, the music, cinematography, costumes, sets, sound and lighting. Here they all outrank the action.
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