It’s still got its eye-roll moments, but Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story is popcorn entertainment of a higher order than you might predict. True story.
Sisu doesn’t truck with subtlety. Don’t be tricked by its Finnish origins and beautiful vistas. This is shock and gore. There’s a history lesson in there, but mostly you’ll be whooping as yet another Nazi explodes into a column of entrails.
The Little Mermaid (2023) is a remake that didn’t need to happen, with the only battle-plan for its existence being a plumping of the soundtrack and script.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse makes us excited for the future of the medium, while also sending a surge of adrenaline through our body. It jams fangs into our skin and pulses into our bloodstream better than any radioactive spider.
Jason Momoa is a spark plug, a single redeeming element that is trying to zap it into life, but Fast X has all of the speed and energy of a school bus.Â
Coming out of Infinity Pool, there are images that have been seared into our brain, as you might hope from a Cronenberg joint. So, if you fancy that kind of mental griddling, then Infinity Pool is worth submerging yourself into.
If there’s a complaint, it’s that Pearl doesn’t quite have the ability to surprise that X and other Ti West films have. It’s more complete, and a richer, more rounded movie experience, but it also doesn’t scare or pull the rug from beneath that experience.
