Film Reviews from Gaz.
This is where Gaz from Real Movies Fake History writes in depth reviews on film. Everything from modern movies, Hollywood industry, all the way to the best in independent and foreign films. Consider it a place to get in depth and nuanced options on diverse cinema.
Deadpool and Wolverine review
Now with the release of the $200 million blockbuster Deadpool and Wolverine, it seems a franchise that’s supposed to make fun of the Hollywood machine has become it’s headline act. It’s an uncomfortable fit for a character that works best at the edges of the mainstream. Here Deadpool is a superhero so steeped and entrenched in the memeification of popular Hollywood culture that it devolves into a shallow pool of cameos, callbacks, and fan-service.
Twisters review
Twisters continues it’s predecessors strength of providing plenty of cinematic damage. By the end credits, tornadoes get a chance to destroy a rodeo, a power station, a movie theatre, a water tower but from what I can tell, no cows. What is fresh to the formula is the injection of a teenage romance plot straight from a YA novel.
The Killer review – Brutal, cold and oddly simple, but is it good?
I’ve heard that Fincher splits his work into two categories, movies and films. Se7en (1995) is a movie, an audience pleasing thriller with conventional crime table-setting. Not low-brow exactly, but greasy and gruesome in its traditional mystery scares. But The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) is a ‘film’, because thematically it’s a serious, unconventional, head-scratching experience full of thinly veiled philosophizing on the nature of life and death.