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THE GIRL IN THE RIVER – Max Aruj, W.F. Smith Leithart
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
In the 1980s and 1990s there were a reasonably large number of mid-budget B-movie serial killer and crime thrillers released in cinemas in any given year, and many of them featured great scores by major composers. In recent years the genre has sort of dried up or, actually, moved to streamers like Netflix or Amazon, where they are now eight-episode miniseries as opposed to two-hour movies. That’s why The Girl in the River feels like something of a nostalgic throwback. The film stars Devon Sawa, Maggie Grace, Tiffany Haddish, and Ralph Macchio and concerns the abduction of twin teenage girls in a remote Mississippi community: one is found dead in the river, while the other remains missing, drawing veteran criminologist Alan Kramer and profiler Amelia Pembrock into an increasingly disturbing investigation. Read more…
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING – Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
It’s hard to believe that Tom Cruise has been making Mission: Impossible movies for almost 30 years. He was 34 when he first took on the role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the first franchise installment back in 1996, and here he is again, now aged 62, still fighting bad guys, hanging out of planes, and sprinting for all he’s worth. If the press reports are to be believed, The Final Reckoning will be the eighth and final Mission: Impossible movie, and Cruise and the gang clearly wanted to go out with a bang – almost literally. It continues the plot of the last film, Dead Reckoning, and again sees Ethan and his IMF colleagues battling with his nemesis Gabriel for control of an artificial intelligence system nicknamed ‘The Entity,’ which was designed to sabotage digital systems, but has since achieved sentience and ‘gone rogue’ with the capability to infiltrate all of the world’s major defense, military, and intelligence networks. It is the fourth M:I film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and co-stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, and Pom Klementieff, with Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett in major supporting roles. Read more…
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