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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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UK Release Date: 22 April 2022 Certification: 15 Director: Tom Gormican Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tiffany Haddish, Neil Patrick Harris, Sharon Horgan, Paco León, Pedro Pascal Rating: 50% Nicolas Cage is Nick Cage. Review: I'm not a hundred percent sure where I land surrounding Nicolas Cage's acting capabilities. At times he can come across as amateurish, almost as if he isn't putting in any effort. But simultaneously, as with The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent , his unique style is energetic and often quite contagious. It's the perfect casting in the most meta of roles with Nic Cage playing a glorified version of Nic Cage to the full Nic Cage in a movie about Nic Cage. His chemistry with superfan, Javi, played by Pedro Pascal makes the film. It's electric, the two actors bounce off of each other with every single line somehow creating a strong, emotional bromance-like relationship in the middle of an action-adventure comedy. Their constant back and forth had me gri

The Matrix Resurrections

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UK Release Date: 22 December 2021 Certification: 15 Director: Lana Wachowski Cast: Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Carrie Ann-Moss, Keanu Reeves, Jada Pinkett Smith Rating:   51% Mr Anderson.  Review: The Matrix trilogy ended horribly with an awful rendition in the form of  The Matrix Revolutions and there was absolutely no need to make this fourth outing in the first place.  My initial reaction to The Matrix Resurrections was that it isn't a particularly good movie but there's more scenes that I enjoyed throughout the runtime than scenes I didn't like. And I believe that's exactly how the movie can be summed up. First of all, it is an absolute joy to see Carrie Ann-Moss and Keanu Reeves again on the big screen as Trinity and Neo respectively. I absolutely love Keanu Reeves and when sat in the cinema I was smiling as it's brilliant to see him back. On the other hand, Jonathan Groff and Yahya Abd