Movie Review: 'Ant-Man And The Wasp'

Now FINALLY out in the UK!

I thought it was pretty good. A definite, and much needed, shift in tone from the intensity and seriousness of 'Avengers: Infinity War', keeping the levity and humour of the original 'Ant-Man'. Some scenes were really laugh out loud funny too! In particular the scenes with Michael Peña (who stole the show with his scenes, I loved the 'truth serum' scene) and the guys in his security company.

The action scenes were pretty cool as well. Evangeline Lilly's The Wasp kicks serious ass, flitting from real size to micro sized and back again in an instant, all the time dealing serious smackdown to the film's villains in her action scenes - of which there are plenty to enjoy (the kitchen fight scene and the car chase in particular are pretty good)!

Having said that though, a minor criticism of the movie is that the villains aren't big bads on the scale of some of the previous MCU movies. But they do serve a purpose that drives the narrative forward. Walton Scoggins' villain does come across as almost cartoonish at times and Hannah John-Kamen's Ghost is impressive and does have her reasons for why she's doing what she does in the movie, as explained in the inevitable flashback info dump,. She is almost redeemable by the end of the film, and as such, I'm intrigued as to what happens to her character, and if we see her again in the future.

Overall though, it's a fun, exciting, action packed, fast paced and funny movie, with Paul Rudd in fine form, playing off some great chemistry from Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas, and the supporting cast of Peña, Randall Park's ever frustrated FBI officer Jimmy Woo, Abby Ryder Forton as Scott Lang's daughter Cassie, plus Laurence Fishburne and Michelle Pfeiffer were really good too.

As always, being a Marvel movie, stay through the end credits for a couple of bonus scenes. I will say that the first of the end credit scenes is a bit of a stinger, but it does bring things forward in the MCU post Infinity War Snap timeline. The second, right at the end, is just for fun.

'The Last Of Us' The Movie

Much like his 'POV movie' of 'Bioshock Infinite', YouTube user dansg08 has edited a playthrough of 'The Last Of Us' into a movie, using some of the in-game dialogue and gameplay interaction with the cut scenes, focusing on the story of the game.

So, if you want to enjoy the story and for those that can't play it (ie Xbox 360 owners), here is the 6 hour movie of 'The Last Of Us'.

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Teaser Trailer And Poster For 'Gravity'

Academy Award® winners Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side,” “The Proposal”) and George Clooney (“Up in the Air,” “Syriana”) star in “Gravity,” a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film was directed by Oscar® nominee Alfonso Cuarón (“Children of Men”). 

Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. 

The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

'Gravity' is out in cinemas October 4 (US) and October 18 (UK).

'Bioshock Infinite' The Movie

YouTube user dansg08 has edited a playthrough of 'Bioshock Infinite' into what he calls a 'POV movie' and has been edited to remove the player to make it play like a movie, focusing on the story and cut scenes.
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The Sandman Movie Art by Jill Thompson

Now don't get too excited, Neil Gaiman has posted a link via his Twitter feed to these illustrations by Jill Thompson that were for a movie pitch which he showed to Warner Bros. back when The Sandman movie was in the very early stages of development.

As it happens I'm currently re-reading The Sandman 75 issue run, currently up to the 'A Game Of You' mini series (#32-37), and I recognise a few of the artworks, such as, Dream trying to reclaim his possessions after being imprisoned (Prelude and Nocturnes #1-8) and the Serial Killer Convention (The Doll's House #9-16).

Gaiman also revealed that they were pitching for three movies, hence the broad scale of the number of illustrations. And being a fan of the comics, I would've loved to have seen a movie (or even a TV series for that matter) adapted from the comics.

A selection of the illustrations after the jump too (click to embiggen).  

Click the link for more of the illustrations by Jill Thompson. They are also up for sale, if you have a few hundred dollars spare! 
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