Christopher Symonds

The passage of time can be a quiet fox, running unencumbered so deftly that one is caught unawares as it bluntly and unmercifully makes its presence known. When I sat down to review this Blu-ray, the...
By the 1980s, cinema was in well and truly in the post Star Wars world. Its monster success and permeation into the cultural zeitgeist still looms large over movies today. Like any profitable venture,...
If ever there was a movie that encapsulated the phrase ‘good things come to those who wait’, it would be 2016’s Deadpool . This quirky, meta, R-rated breakout hit sat on actor Ryan Reynolds’ wish list...
This reviewer has been around the block for over ten years. In that time nothing had been more irksome to me than a studio announcing a grand plan for multiple movies before the first one has even lef...
Let’s get this out of the way quickly: this reviewer is a white male from Australia in his early 40s. I have not, nor will I ever refer to another person or cast with a preface of black, Asian, jupita...
The obsessed fan/love interest movie is a well-trodden one nowadays, with some truly stellar entries in the sub-genre ( Misery, Fatal Attraction) and some truly awful ones; but one, to my surprise, th...
It is a sad fact that talent doesn’t necessarily equate to a career of note or at all in Hollywood. There are literally hundreds of thousands of talented people out there that will never get their sho...
Pretty harshly assessed by critics of the day, Kindergarten Cop, the follow up collaboration between the 'Austrian Oak' and director Ivan Reitman, was still a massive financial success back in 1990 wh...
Heist films are well trodden genre this century, with many a bankable name and director taking various stabs at them with varying degrees of success. The ones that have stood out in the past couple of...
2017 has been something of a marquee year for Stephen King cinematic adaptations, with TV scoring big on Gerald’s Game, 1922, and Mr. Mercedes , and It breaking records on the big screen. (Note: The D...
“This is not going to go the way you think.” –Luke Skywalker. Never has a line from one of these films so succinctly encapsulated the adventure you are about to witness. This second part of the third...
With Alien: Covenant having hit screens in 2017, we thought we’d take a trip back and explore one of the most successful and often turbulent franchises in cinema history. This six part article series...
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-9764823118029583", enable_page_level_ads: true }); Well, that’s more like it. Warner Bros. entry into a shared universe of sup...