Dan Says its Alright

  To mark Godzilla's 70th anniversary Toho Studios take the gargantuan lizard back to his routes with a story of post WWII Japan suffering under the scaly foot of the monster. Big dog of Japanese cinema Takashi Yamazaki writes, directs and takes charge of special effects and boy does he deliver. Godzilla may be the star but the film is really the story of fighter pilot Koichi Shikishima. Following failure to carry out his Kamikaze duties and a harrowing encounter with a smaller (but still plenty fearsome) iteration of Godzilla he returns to whats left of his home where he forms an unconventional family with a young women and the abandoned baby she is taking care of. Over time things start to look up for the trio as he gets a job clearing leftover mines from the sea but haunted by survivor's guilt and traumatised by PTSD Koichi is unable to let himself be happy. When a the giant radioactive lizard appears and begins to wreck whats left of his homeland Koichi and the rest o...

  The Marvels marks the first time people who don't keep up with the deluge of Marvel TV shows will feel properly out of the loop. More worrying it feels more like one of the shows than a tent pole movie.  The plot follows Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, Miss Marvel/Kamala Kahn and Monica Rambo as they try to stop new leader of the Kree Empire, Dar-Benn from destroying various planets to fix her own. The McGuffin trinket that allows the villain to do this also leads to the three heroes switching location whenever they use their powers, forcing them to stay together and work as a team. The dynamics of the group are fun with Ms Marvel actress Iman Vellani easily the best thing about the film. Hopefully she stays on the big screen going forward and isn't wasted in more Disney + mediocrity. Brie Larson does her best as Captain Marvel but the "I tried to help but it didn't work out" colonial guilt storyline doesn't really work on a character you are trying to portray...

  I have no idea if 5 Nights at Freddy's is the adaptation fans of the game franchise have been waiting on or not but for everyone else this is a pretty drab affair. Josh "Hunger Games" Hutcherson needs a job in order to keep custody of his little sister so he starts work as a night time security guard at an abandoned children's theme restaurant where no employee lasts more than a week. The lack of worker retention probably has something to do with the living animatronics that stalk the hallways but our hero doesn't care about any of that as he's much more interested in catching Z's so he can dream about the day his little brother was abducted in the hope of remembering details of the abductor, something which seems to be helped by the supernatural goings on at Freddy's. He is periodically visited Elizabeth Lail's local police women (she seems to be the entirety of the local police force) who is in turns flippant, cryptic and angry about the posses...