MOWGLI: LEGEND OF THE JUNGLE (full review at Screen Realm)

The much-delayed Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle finally arrives on our screens via Netflix and a limited cinema release. With a host of diverse filmmakers – from Ron Howard to Alejandro González Iñárritu – attached to the film at various times, the long-gestating project heralds Andy Serkis’ second feature as director following Andrew Garfield-starring biopic Breathe.

Originally scheduled for release back in 2016, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle was set to clash with Disney’s live action Jungle Book update, directed by Jon Favreau. But when two similar movies turn out at the same time, one will inevitably sink without trace. For example, not many folk will remember the 1991 Robin Hood movie starring Patrick Bergin that could not escape the shadow of Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, despite beating it to theatres by a month. However, they might recall the irony of the tables turning two years later, with Costner on the receiving end, his three-hour Wyatt Earp biopic getting upstaged by George P. Cosmatos’ rollicking Tombstone.

Read the full review at Screen Realm:
https://screenrealm.com/mowgli-legend-of-the-jungle-movie-review-netflix/

IMDB: Mowgli: The Legend Of The Jungle

CLIMAX (full review at Screen Realm)

Climax is the latest controversial feature from Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void, Love), purportedly based on true events, and setting the festival circuit aflutter with its seedy depiction of very a bad drug experience and stunning dance choreography.

The film takes place during the nineties and we’re introduced to various members of a French dance company via videotaped job interviews that preface the movie. We then meet the company as they let loose for a pre-tour party. The party progresses as you would expect, until they discover the sangria has been spiked, and with nearly the entire company having indulged, everyone begins to have a considerably bad time. And just in case it needs saying, things go downhill rather quickly.

Read the full review at Screen Realm:
https://screenrealm.com/climax-movie-review-gaspar-noe/

IMDB: Climax

LORDS OF CHAOS (full review at Diabolique Magazine)

Lords of Chaos (2018) is the fourth feature from director Jonas Åkerlund, and charts the inception of Norwegian Black Metal in the early 1990s. The movie attempts to shine some light on mysterious progenitor Øystein Aarseth a.k.a. Euronymous, Olso’s infamous record shop Helvete and the bands that sprung up around it. But mostly it’s a segway into the outrageous, headline grabbing events that brought Norwegian Black Metal to the attention of the World.

Based on the book of the same name by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind (but omitting the salacious subtitle The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground), Lords Of Chaos is a hard film to categorise because as the creaky old saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. So it emerges as part musical biopic, part thriller, part horror movie. It’s the age old story of teenagers being dickheads, large egos running rampant, money, suicide, church burning and murder.


Read the full review at Diabolique Magazine:
https://diaboliquemagazine.com/lords-of-chaos-review/

IMDB: Lords Of Chaos