![]() ![]() Oppenheimer – aka ‘How we learnt to start worrying and loathe the bomb’ – is Christopher Nolan’s most ambitious movie yet. They Cloned Tyrone revels in that ambiguity The trio’s madcap energy of impromptu karaoke sessions and sharp banter means that you’re laughing even when you’re not quite sure what’s going on. Along with his Nancy Drew obsessed streetworker Yo-Yo (Candyman’s Teyonah Parris), the pair recount the cold-blooded motel shootout that Tyrone fell victim to. He ends up on the doorstep of wise-cracking Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx), a pimp with enough minks in his wardrobe to put PETA on high alert. But why? And how? The mystery unfolds as Fontaine makes his usual nightly rounds to debtors. Rather than staring at the walls of a pine box, Fontaine wakes up in his bedroom without a bullet wound in sight or any recollection of the encounter that cost him his life. Soon he’s careering a car into a street rival, an event that leads to him being killed for the first time. He’s a local drug dealer who makes a concerted effort to fit in subtle acts of kindness alongside the day-to-day kerfuffle of his criminal capers. The opening sequence introduces the complex character of Fontaine (John Boyega). ![]() A stylish conspiracy thriller, it finds its footing in The Glen, a Southern poster town for African-American disenfranchisement, filled with shoddy liquor stores, Tupac Shakur conspiracy theorists and a homeless fortune teller called Frog. Juel Taylor’s hilariously unhinged directorial debut plays out like a big ‘we know what you think about us’ public service announcement from the Black consciousness. When things go wrong, they’re less terrified of the dead than they are of cops and angry parents. Possession feels ‘amazing’, a mind-altering trip, so they all want a repeat hit. The Philippous play the party possession scenes not as horror but druggy teen comedy. Just expel them before 90-seconds or they’ll want to stay. Grip it and you can welcome a ghost into your body. Mia and Jade, plus tagalong Riley, go to a party where someone brings out an apparently cursed hand. In her loneliness, she clings to her best friend, Jade (Alexandra Jensen), and her family – younger brother Riley (Joe Bird) and had-it-with-your-nonsense mother Sue (Miranda Otto). The story then settles on Mia (Sophie Wilde), a slightly odd teenager, and vessel for bad decisions, who is grieving the death of her mother. But it’s just one of many times this terrifying, inventive horror leads you down a familiar path and then pulls you down a shocking new route. It’s an effective but pretty standard ‘cursed teens’ set up. As the party throngs record on their phones, the younger man stabs his brother and then himself. He finds him blank-eyed and bloodied, staring at a wall. ![]() It begins with the sort of showboating long tracking shot beloved by new filmmakers, following a young man through a party as he hunts for his younger brother. In the opening minutes of Talk To Me, the directing debut of YouTuber twins Danny and Michael Philippou, it looks pretty clear what we’re in for. It’s just the latest in a new wave of Hollywood ’toons that owe more to manga and anime than traditional CG animation.įor confused Gen Z-ers and Millennials who didn’t grow up in the era of Velcro and Max Headroom, the movie’s opening tackles the Turtles’ origins in snappy style: a vial of mutant pathogen falls down a sewer and turns four adorbs baby turtles – Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo – Jeff Rowe, co-director on The Mitchells vs the Machines, and his animators underlay the familiar adventures of the four genetically modified turtles with an unfamiliar animation style: all glitchy, punky, doodly, drawing-outside-the-lines splurges of colour and action. Like Spider-Verse, the anything-goes animation style hits like a needle scratch on a dusty old LP. What it lacks in those movies’ dazzling storytelling, it makes up for in visual effervescence and a steady stream of big laughs. Shelve any scepticism because Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a blast – a worthy companion piece to the groundbreaking Spider-Verse films. On the evidence of this Seth Rogen-produced animation, the answer might just be ‘a lot’. How many more times can you reshell those sewer-dwelling martial artists for kid-friendly fun? Movie and a Wham! documentary, the idea of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot seems like pushing the ’80s nostalgia trend to breaking point. Even in a year that has already given us origin stories for Tetris and Nike Air Jordans, a Super Mario Bros.
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