Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Rating: ★★
Sep 16, 2005Gonzo Children's Film/Fantastical Candy Factory
Tim Burton's remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a peculiarly lifeless confection that fails to find any of the zaniness of the original, something that one would have thought would have been Burton's forte

Kick-Ass (2010)

Kick-Ass (2010)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 18, 2010Superhero Wannabes
One of several films that came out around the same time on the theme of wannabes without powers playing at being superheroes. Matthew Vaughn delivers a film that falls between witty deflation of and a celebration of the nerdy fantasy of superherodom

World War Z (2013)

World War Z (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Jun 22, 2013Zombie Apocalypse
I went into this wondering what new things it could find to do with such an overworked genre as the zombie apocalypse but ended up gently surprised. Not a film that reinvents the wheel for the zombie genre but spins the basics out into a tight, exciting, international locale hopping survival story

Ad Astra (2019)

Ad Astra (2019)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 14, 2019Mission to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System
In the same vein as Gravity and The Martian, this depicts spaceflight with scrupulous scientific regard. Essentially Apocalypse Now in space with Brad Pitt on a mission to Neptune to find his father who has gone rogue