Deight Night Reviews

From writer/director Akiva Schaffer, one third of The Lonely Island, comes a comedy reboot of the beloved Leslie Nielsen helmed slapstick comedy franchise The Naked Gun. This is also brought to cinemas with the help of legendary comedy writer and now producer Seth MacFarlane, an obvious fan of the classic franchise with half of the jokes in the earlier seasons of his most famous work, Family Guy , being a "homage" to many entries of The Naked Gun . With the passing of Leslie Nielsen in 2010, lead officer of Police Squad has been passed down to Frank Drebin's son, Frank Drebin Junior, played by Liam Neeson. After thwarting a bank robbery single handedly in true Naked Gun fashion, Drebin Jr. is called to investigate a mysterious electric car related death that he writes off as a suicide. He's then confronted by the sister of the victim (Pamela Anderson) and with her help, starts to unravel a dark conspiracy that leads the pair down a path of danger, threat and, most im...

With its final cinematic release of the year, Marvel Studios is hoping to not only pave the way for the much anticipated Avengers: Doomsday next Christmas, but also reintroduce audiences to the Fantastic Four after regaining the rights to the team through their merger with 20th Century Fox in 2019. With a cancelled TV pilot, a duology of fun but dated comic adventures and a disastrous Christopher Nolan inspired gritty reboot, it's safe to say that Marvel's first family's relationship with live action adaptations has been rough to say the least. With Kevin Feige and the rest of Marvel Studios' love for the source material, there's an expectation that they, with the help of director Matt Shakman, would be the first to get one of the comic publisher's most beloved sets of characters truly right for the first time.  Taking place on Earth-828 (as opposed to Earth-616, where the vast majority of the MCU takes place), four years after The Fantastic Four landed back on...

Writer and director Mike Flanagan has made his living out of adapting Stephen King books, if he isn't directly adapting them - like in the cases of Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep - he's making his own version of a Stephen King story, with his seminal Netflix miniseries, Midnight Mass , being very clearly inspired by King's novel, Salem's Lot , and many of his other original horrors having very King-like elements - namely, characters with actual depth. The Life Of Chuck is a new example of the former, a direct adaptation of King's novella of the same name published in the short story collection, If It Bleeds , with three other previously unpublished novellas. It's one of those films where it's best to go in with as little information plot wise as possible but what can be said is that the film's story does exactly what it says on the tin, showing the life of the titular Charles Krantz (played by Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay and Benjamin Pajak res...

Over ten years since Superman's last solo cinematic outing, James Gunn brings audiences a fresh new take on the Man of Steel that also brings along with it the start of a new cinematic universe in the DCU. The story that sets up this new Superman and the world he inhabits jumps straight into the action in the aftermath of Superman's (David Corenswet) intervention in the Bovarian invasion of Jarhanpur where Superman has lost his first ever battle against the Hammer Of Bovaria. The story then follows the political repercussions of this, followed by the team at Metropolis based newspaper, The Daily Planet - namely Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo) - and tech genius and billionaire Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) who aims to take advantage of the public's perception of the Last Son Of Krypton to his own gain. Along the way, Superman meets new friends, struggles with relationships and learns new secrets of his past - all with the help of his loveable comp...

  In a vast sea of film releases that are either sequels, reboots or films connected to established brands coming this July, it's good that the movie going public can rely on legendary director David Cronenberg to bring cinemas a film that's not only completely original but characteristically unhinged to boot. In The Shrouds , we are introduced to Karsh, played by Vincent Cassel, who's the inventor of "The Shroud"; a cloak that corpses are placed into upon their burials that allow the grieving families of the deceased to see their loved ones rot in the ground in real time on their smartphones. This invention was inspired by the untimely death of his wife, Becca (Diane Kruger), who he still continues to mourn. While demonstrating the Shroud's capabilities to a blind date, Karsh notices that the corpse of his beloved wife has been tampered with, which leads him to investigate who could have done this. As he tries to find out what happened, one of his Shroud con...

Joseph Kosinski has returned to the driver's seat after the roaring success of his previous film Top Gun: Maverick , a legacy sequel where Tom Cruise's Maverick returns to the US Air Force to train a group of new recruits who have been assigned an impossible mission. In F1 The Movie , Tom Cruise is replaced with Brad Pitt (as Sonny Hayes, a has-been ex-racing legend), the Air Force is replaced with Formula 1 racing and the group of new recruits with the singular racing team member Damson Idris (as the cocky up and comer, Joshua Pearce) - but the story remains very much the same, just instead of an enemy base being raided, several Grand Prixs need to be won for Javier Bardem's Reuben Cervantes to keep his APX GP Team, from a board of directors losing faith in his ownership.  Plot isn't the only similarity F1 The Movie shares with its more military predecessor. Like Top Gun: Maverick , it's very much designed to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Fittingly, the ...