Free Guy is a sci-fi action comedy film in which Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a bank cashier, realises that he is actually a non-player character (NPC) in an open-world video game. The film is directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn (Ready Player One). In a video game that resembles Grand Theft Auto and Cyberpunk 2077, GuyContinue reading “Free Guy”
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Judas and the Black Messiah
The inimitable Lakeith Stanfield plays FBI Informant (or Judas) Bill O’Neal in this biographical drama surrounding the betrayal of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1960s Chicago – I’m not sure if this makes Hampton the Black Messiah or a very naughty boy. In 1968, 19-year-oldContinue reading “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Parasite
Parasite is a somewhat genre-less film about a poor family, the Kims, and the way in which they con their way into the lives and household of a rich family, the Parks. This is until additional layers are revealed and it all begins to unravel for the Kims, like a cheap pass-the-parcel. I describe theContinue reading “Parasite”
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