The Cynical Cinephiles

Director: Alexandra Aja Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper When a Category 5 hurricane hits her Florida home town, Haley (Scodelario) ignores all evacuation orders and goes off in search of her missing father, Dave (Pepper). Haley finds Dave severely injured in the basement of their family home that slowly begins to flood as the raging storm outside strengthens. As the water levels rise, the father and daughter face an even more dangerous threat - a pack of gigantic alligators intent on feasting on anything that makes a splash. Director Alexandra Aja has cut his teeth making horrors his entire career but Crawl transpires to be his most commercially appealing effort to date. Having grasped a clear understanding of the film's limitations, Aja manages to channel them and craft a white knuckle ride where you never know where the next chomp is going to come from. At a taut 87-minutes, Aja knows when to stop the fun so as not to risk repeating the same threats and near-misses the...

Director: Jon Watts Cast: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon, Zendaya Coming a mere three months after  Avengers: Endgame, the cinematic event   that left audiences reeling, Spider-Man: Far From Home deals with the consequences of the time-travel epic and explores how the web-slinger is adjusting to a world *SPOILER* without Tony Stark. Having returned from "the Blip" that vanquished half of the universe and helping to defeat Thanos, Peter Parker (Holland) hopes to embark upon a school summer vacation where he can sightsee and romance M.J (Zendaya). His plans for rest and relaxation are thwarted when creatures called Elementals surface and begin to wreak havoc across Europe and he is recruited by Nick Fury (Jackson) to fight them alongside a new superhero, Mysterio (Gyllenhaal). One of the opening scenes in Far From Home humorously pays homage to the fallen Avengers who sacrificed their lives to de...