Deight Night Reviews

Marvel Studios hasn't had a great start to 2025, it has to be said. While Deadpool and Wolverine performed well and kept fans happy, it has had some retroactive criticism thrown against it; that its story is barely existent and most of its quality comes from blind nostalgia bait. Daredevil: Born Again , also started off as a success but ended its first series on a somewhat sour note leaving fans, especially those of the original Netflix series, disappointed.  Of course, the biggest dent in the studio's reputation this year has been Captain America: Brave New World , which underperformed both financially and critically. It was doomed from the start with a new director who was in over his head, a geriatric Harrison Ford and constant reshuffles of the script. Now with DC Studios finally getting their act together under the control of James Gunn with his very own Superman coming in the summer, Marvel really need a win to get back in the game. Thankfully for them, that seems to ha...

After over a decade of cultivating his craft telling other people’s stories, whether that be in the form of contributing to a franchise ( Black Panther , Creed ) or a true to life drama ( Fruitvale Station ), Ryan Coogler has finally been given a chance to create his own world in the form of vampire horror, Sinners . The film takes place in the American south in the early 1930s and follows gangster twins Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) who return to their home of Mississippi to organise a huge party celebrating their homecoming. The pair gather their caterers, drinks and musical entertainment but once the party starts it attracts the attention of a band of vampires (led by Jack O’Connell) who are desperate to be invited in.  Coogler’s experience elevating franchises and bringing lesser known stories to the big screen has all led to Sinners . It’s Coogler’s masterpiece and it's already the film of 2025 so far, but it’s far and away the director’s best project, which is saying a ...

Right off the back of depicting a fictional war torn United States in last year's phenomenal Civil War , Alex Garland returns to the war genre with the help of veteran Ray Mendoza to take audiences to the very real war torn Iraq of 2006 in Warfare . The film is an autobiographical account of Mendoza's experience on a mission which saw himself and his platoon of fellow Navy Seals pinned down in a house they had taken as an outpost for reconnaissance when they're overwhelmed by enemy fire. The film follows the events in real time as the platoon try to get out of the house and transported to safety.  Alex Garland makes a big deal of the fact that this film was written from interviews of all the real soldiers that are depicted by the cast and it's no surprise as the authenticity is transparent from the offset. The film opens with the platoon sharing a brotherly moment as they all salivate over the overtly erotic music video of Eric Prydz's Call On Me . This scene would ...

                                                                                                After a long period of apparent anticipation, A Minecraft Movie has released in cinemas across the globe to a lukewarm response from critics but a seemingly enthusiastic response from general audiences with the film having one of the biggest opening weekends of any video game adaptation. Obviously, whenever a film does well at the box office, it's a win for cinema lovers, whether or not it's a film they approve of. It's bringing in the money to keep the lights on in Hollywood for a few more years and maybe some more auteur driven projects can be greenlit along the way(...for now).   However, with A Minecraft Movie 's success has come a trend of o...