The Movie Addict

I think we can all agree that Avengers: Endgame was the perfect ending to the Avengers. It was the perfect way to ride off into the sunset. However, money makes people think that the juggernaut should carry on so after mediocre film after mediocre film, Marvel are back with the first part of the FIFTH phase.  The first part of the film is as slow as anything and for a film that was a surprisingly short 125 minutes, it felt like a longer film than 125 minutes. Once Kang got mixed into the story properly, then things started to pick up but that's quite a long time into the movie. The final act felt quite brisk and in previous MCU films this would have gone on twice as long but thankfully they reign it in and it didn’t feel like it outlived its welcome. I did like the cameo from Bill Murray because its always good to see Bill Murray although he didn’t seem to really know what sort of film he was in because his performance didn’t match the tone of the scene or film. Paul Rudd is as goo...

Under normal circumstances, I probably wouldn't have gone to the trouble of seeing The Whale at the cinema but with the awards buzz that the film (in particular Brendan Fraser) has courted, I thought I would give it a go. Going to the cinema on a Saturday morning, the screening was fuller than when I went to see Babylon. Daren Aronofsky did a film in 2009 which saw him basically resurrect Mickey Rourke’s career and from obscurity to winning an Oscar and it looks like he is going to do the same with Brendan Fraser.  The Whale stars Brendan Fraser who plays Charlie who is a morbidly obese teacher who during the course of the film is trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter as he comes to terms with the fact that he is in fact dying. The film is very light on joyous moments. In fact I would go so far as to say that there are no moments that you could say pause the sad tone that the film has from start to finish. The closest I came to this was when I thought they wouldn't do...