Paul Giamatti

With cinemas now back open and a more steady stream of films coming out, things are starting to look a little rosier for the industry.  After Black Widow and F9, one of the other delayed high-profile films is Disney’s Jungle Cruise, but the big question is whether it has the chops to draw an audience back to the screens.
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To some, the Disney Corporation is characterised as a money making behemoth that tramples all over many areas of media, but is it undeniable that it has brought us some of the finest works of art in multiple arenas. Mary Poppins was one such masterpiece and Saving Mr. Banks aims to tell the story of its troubled creation.
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Despite a high powered voice cast, this animated tale of a small snail and his big dreams of making it as a racer doesn’t quite reach the top tier of must-see animated films. Turbo is an odd animated movie. This isn’t a bad thing, as there are plenty of good ones out there that are even odder. The problem is that the world created in those other movies, while weird, manage to maintain a consistent tone. Something that I feel Turbo, to its detriment, doesn’t.
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Don Coscarelli directed one of my favorite films, Bubba Ho-Tep. The film has an odd sense of humor; it stars Bruce Campbell as Sebastian Haff, a man who claims to be the late Elvis Presley. With the help of JFK (Ossie Davis), the two battle an ancient evil Egyptian mummy. Unfortunately, the quirky charm of Bubba Ho-Tep is absent from Coscarelli’s new film, John Dies at the End. Based on the book by David Wong, John Dies at the End wants to be a comedic horror film, but it fails to be funny or scary. Read More