DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: WILL & HARPER

4/5

Will & Grace

114 Mins. Starring: Will Ferrell & Harper Steele. Director: Josh Greenbaum. On: Netflix.

You know what it's like when you haven't seen an old friend in a while. The pandemic sure paid hell to all of that. Times, like people, change. And when you reunite, sometimes, there really is a lot that you must get caught up with. 'Anchorman', 'Talladega Nights' and 'Blades Of Glory' funny man Will Ferrell hadn't seen his good friend, Harper Steele, in quite some time. They had each other's backs in the Saturday Night Live salad days, when Ferrell played everyone from Robert Goulet and Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray, thanks to Steele's razor-sharp writing. Maybe the last time was during the filming of the Netflix comedy they co-wrote, 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga', and they're not afraid to stick it to their misfire. Even if they reunite for the streaming service documentary, 'Will & Harper', a 40th Sundance Film Festival favourite.

In that time, Harper has transitioned to become a trans woman, and to seek understanding and to see the journey Steele has been on, where there is a Will, there is a way. As the 'Road Trip' star travels across America with his dear friend in a Josh Greenbaum ('The Short Game', 'Too Funny To Fail') directed documentary, with plenty of drama to go with those helpings of humour and heart that looks to make a few stops on the awards circuit. DC, Texas and LA, with all the road stops in-between, Harper takes Will to all the old dive bar and favourite haunts that are usually covered with confederate flags instead of multicoloured ones. From magnificent malls where people dreamed of equality, to Indiana Pacer NBA games looking for change, Will and Harper try to find how many places in the States are united in their cause. One heartbreaking moment over a Sherlock steak challenge goes down with more of a struggle than that time late legend John Candy ate his cube by cube in 'The Great Outdoors'. But another moment at a bar and track will just leave you in tears.

Driving through it all, 'Will & Harper' isn't just a document on the current landscape of America and life in this modern day as a member of the LGBTQ community. It's also a story of friendship and a great American road movie, released just after 'Are You Sure' on Disney +, featuring BTS members Jung Kook and Jimin sharing moments on the road again before their mandatory military service for South Korea. "Thelma and Louise, with a little less death" (but just as many breasts), as one friend and SNL alum says in a sweet swansong. We won't spoil which members of the esteemed cast (who have their own 'Saturday Night' movie out this week too) show up, from nail salons to hot air balloons, but we will say, everybody has Harper's back. Stronger than steel. And how about that parting gift by the beach? The grace of Will and Harper on this 17-day trip, shows you that two friends remain as such, no matter how long it's been. Accepting what's come between. No matter what or who. Now, about 'The Story Of Fire Saga'. TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga', 'Saturday Night', 'Are You Sure?'.

REVIEW: BEETLEJUICE, BEETLEJUICE

3/5

Say My Name, Say My Name

104 Mins. Starring: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega & Willem Dafoe. Screenwriters: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar. Director: Tim Burton. In: Theatres.

The Juice is loose! Madison Square Garden, late October 2001. NBA legend Michael Jordan is making his second stint out of retirement with his season debut against the New York Knicks...a team he gave nightmares back in the day. It's a big deal, and everybody's in town. Even an esteemed British sports journalist from the BBC, who, although game for giving it his best shot, is as out of his depth as someone trying to guard MJ. Already corrected for calling this game, "a match" (c'mon, guys) he looks for a friendly, familiar face to talk to. And he finds one like you only could courtside in one of his favourite movie stars. Michael Keaton. Surely, this will make great TV, to shoot the breeze with this legend. What could go wrong? He asks him, what does he think of this game, full of first day of the season rust and the nerves and knees of an almost 40-year-old icon. With that iconic Keaton look like he was trying to look for something better to say, he tells it like it is..."f#####g boring"!

"Well, Michael, we are live", the reporter replies, as friendly as the pat on the back he receives from Keaton when the other Michael in the arena realizes his gaff. We're all laughing, especially me and my dad, back home who stayed up to the early hours, U.K., to watch what was our first full NBA game, as pops wonders what all the fuss is about...and I can't blame him. It's a beautiful moment of levity, that not only the game, but the city and the world needed, if you look back at the date at the top of this review. But why are we talking about this, beyond that? Eliciting an even bigger smile through chewed gum from Michael was when the reporter (who probably thought this night couldn't get any worse...and we aren't talking about the wax dry snooze-fest on the floor), talked about what he did know about...films. Introducing the great Michael Keaton as the star of 'Beetlejuice'. Not 'Batman', like that other film with reuniting director of the haunting bizarre, Tim Burton. Going nuts in callbacks itself, from 'The Flash' multiverse, to the 'Batgirl' movie we'll never see. But, The Juice, like another sports star from the 90s who had an incredible run.

Keaton has been keyed in over the last few years. When the 'Multiplicity' star hasn't been playing avian superheroes (The Vulture in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'), or Oscar winning ones ('Birdman', or, the unexpected virtue of an Academy Award for walking around Times Square in your tighty-whities). The 'Spotlight' star has been acting up a storm on small screens ('Dopesick') and big ('The Founder'). But now, as Betelgeuse, he doesn't give up being the ghost with the most in an afterlife full of the depraved that fits him as fine as that black and white striped suit. The joker of this pack, with wild hair, Flecked make-up and panda eyes, is the surprise treat of the year in a calendar of franchises throwing it back like 'Axel F' on Netflix, better known as 'Beverly Hills Cop'. In the first film, he played around for about as much screen-time as Anthony Hopkins in 'The Silence of the Lambs', but you know that won Sir Anthony an Oscar. Now in the cleverly named sequel (REDACTED...we've already said the name twice), Michael bringing his anti-hero out of retirement, back with Burton is exactly what we need this season, like their way of dealing with the selfie obsessed generation. . Especially now it's released in the rising sun too, with Halloween on the horizon.

Even without Geena Davis, or Alec Baldwin (there's a great cameo here...but it's not them), this silly sequel is a slimy slapstick hit. All the way to the poster callback and arms open wide for old friends like Catherine O'Hara. Still a legend and modern day star from 'Home Alone' to 'Schitt's Creek'. Although we all know who the real star of the show is, Winona Ryder. Throwing it back like her 'Stranger Things' series and not looking like it's been almost 40 years, for the love of all things that are holy for this writer born three years before. Speaking of Netflix haunts, 'Wednesday' star Jenna Ortega truly clicks as the new star of this spectacle, with the future name of this franchise on her lips. A scream in this horror comedy, especially when she brings the iconic dancing back in a hall of rogues for a gallery, scripted by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Featuring Justin Theroux, showing that Jasper Carrot was right about lifting a ponytail up and finding an a###hole underneath and a stapled together Monica Bellucci. Not to mention all the shrunken, Talking Heads, 'Mask' coloured suits from Burton's brilliant creature feature box of tricks. And an ace Willem Dafoe (giving Japan all 'Kinds Of Kindness' this week), acting as a detective on the closed casket case. So good, they named it twice. Now, if only we could summon and scare up a third film. Now how would we go abo...BEETLEJUICE! TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'Beetlejuice', 'Wednesday', 'The Flash'.

REVIEW: HIS THREE DAUGHTERS

4/5

Their Father's Keeper.

101 Mins. Starring: Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Rudy Galvan, Jose Febus, Jasmine Bracey, Jay O. Sanders & Jovan Adepo. Screenwriter: Azazel Jacobs. Director: Azazel Jacobs. On: Netflix.

In their father's house, 'His Three Daughters' on Netflix come together for the first Academy Award worthy movie of the year. Let's just hope Oscar doesn't forget this best picture because it came early for the fall, like when a stifling summer feels like it is simply switched off for autumn. Played out like it belongs on stage (Broadway, anyone?), the drama in this family affair is anything but theatrical, but this new Netflix favourite deserves its time in theatres like a 'Marriage Story'. Sure, the most successful streaming service may not know how to make the biggest of blockbusters (does anyone remember 'The Gray Man', or 'Red Notice' for that matter?), but it knows how to make Oscar fare ('Maestro', 'Nyad', 'Passing') like it does sensational shows ('Stranger Things', 'Ozark', 'Squid Game').

In a cramp and emotionally claustrophobic New York City apartment, the amazing Azazel Jacobs ('The GoodTimesKid', 'The Lovers') scripts and directs a heartbroken family, emotionally bruised with the shots they take at each other's souls. But it's the top-billing shared by Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen that really hit it home. This big-three are estranged like this magnificent movie isn't from the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto, but everyone always comes back home. Faced with something no one wants to go through, but a cross we all have to bear, they may take pieces out of each other, but what they mean to one another cuts much deeper. Even if they don't know what to do with themselves, and an ailing father crossing over between a DNR and the hope to hold on. This type of heavy drama deserves heavyweight acting, and that's precisely what Coon, Lyonne and Olsen prescribe us. 

Carrie ('The Leftovers', 'Gone Girl') is so Big Apple born she has a Metro card permanently in her phone case. She may know how to make it in this city, but she'd go anywhere to escape the fact that she always has to play the bad guy. Natasha ('Poker Face', 'Russian Doll') toughens it out in this life's winter in NYC, by smoking and betting on sports with her boyfriend. But what some may see as a life laying to waste actually affords something of much stronger, and more sincere, substance. Meanwhile, Elizabeth ('WandaVision', 'Ingrid Goes West') is in the middle of it all, trying to please people, all whilst missing her own new family that may be across America, and a quick dialled up video chat, but may as well be a million miles away to a new mother. All three show sides of them you know, and deeper and darker shades you don't appreciate in your fellow person until you ask. Usually with a scathing comment, instead of a searching question. Either way, these three best actresses deserve to all be a nominated by the Academy in the same category, and even share the award.

Parlaying into 'Five Little Ducks' for a sibling story as traditional as a children's song, there is more on this bill than the big-three. Rudy Galvan and Jasmine Bracey play care workers helping or hurting the situation, whichever way you see it, in equal doses of heart and cold, cruel world realities. Whilst Jose Febus is fabulous as a much more sympathetic security guard in such a real New York courtyard, Nas could have cut a record's album cover here. But it's the father himself, Jay O. Sanders ('The Good Wife', 'Revolutionary Road'), who speaking of Broadway (or off-Broadway) has Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle awards to his name, and Jovan Adepo ('Fences', 'When They See Us'), the 'Babylon', 'Watchmen' and 'Mother!' star reuniting with Olsen after the Facebook Watch drama 'Sorry For Your Loss', who steal the show somewhat in the scenes they are in with their stirring speeches. We simply shan't spoil. Just like they won't the light of the three daughters that shine one on our own home truths. This story of a sisterhood travelling back home is a keeper. TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'Good Grief', 'Still Alice', 'Our Little Sister' 

REVIEW: TRANSFORMERS ONE

3.5/5

Avengers Reassemble 

104 Mins. Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne & Jon Hamm. Director: Josh Cooley. In: Theatres.

Robots in animated disguise. Ever since the Bayhem of the 'Transformers' trilogy switched out Shia LaBeouf for Mark Wahlberg, the core of the fan favourite franchise has been searching for change. And nothing has generated quite as much buzz as the 'Bumblebee' spin-off...yet! Last year, 'Rise Of The Beasts' switched lanes and even crossed over with another Hasbro favourite, as their new entertainment I.D. featuring Peppa Pig and the Monopoly Man looks to give Mattel a run for its 'Barbie' blockbuster money. 'My Little Pony', 'G.I: Joe', 'Dungeons and Dragons.' They're all getting ready to be played with in your sandbox. Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and Disney with a Plus, beware. But first, it's time for the animated 'Transformers One', taking it back to the rock 'em, sock 'em 'bots being the central characters. Much like the original 80s animation, or the Netflix 'War For Cybertron Trilogy'. Intellectual Property, roll out!

This rogue one directed by 'Toy Story 4's' Josh Cooley really plays with the Autobot and Decepticon action figures. A real marvel that sees an avenging reunion between Thor and the Black Widow. A Hollywood who's who of a voice cast features Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm, all appearing to have a Swayze (the time of their lives) with something their kids will surely love. With the Prime likes of Peter Cullen, mind you, even the biggest names in the biz have the boldest baritones to fill out in the sound studio. The only cult character voice more iconic is the late, great James Earl Jones (rest peacefully) as Lord Vader. Yet, bumping metal fists like a 'Predator' Schwarzenegger and Weathers (R.I.P.) handclap of a shake, Hemsworth and Henry give us an origin story of Professor X and Magneto proportions. Even if we can't get over the humanoid faces. You've seen more character in 'I, Robot'.

Cybertron, witness the origin. For the first animated film in the Transformers line since 1986. When this almost 40-year-old man child was a year old. Scarlett sticks it to the boys with her pink bot, and speaking of old friends, did you hear what Keegan-Michael Key recently said about his former sketch comedy partner Jordan Peele? It's still all good, but apparently they don't talk much these days. What with Jordan's ruling of the horror genre and Keegan being keyed into more "dramatic roles". Obviously 'The LEGO Movie' and 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' doesn't mean this (or them), but the 'Fargo', 'Wonka' and 'Dolemite Is My Name' actor has certainly made a Hollywood name for himself, too. Let's just bring back 'Keanu', or the cute Cooley characters from his last story of toys. Add legends like Laurence Fishburne in this matrix of leadership and the mad man of Jon Hamm, truly last naming it up, and you have a great roll call. But the most pleasant surprise might be hearing the robotic voice of the ever versatile Steve Buscemi. I don't even have a pun for that, it's just great to hear from him.

Fond, fan serving and funny (especially when they run...and we aren't just talking about the pod racing rivalling scene), this franchise just keeps on trucking (there it is). Showing that some of your favourite comic-book and childhood action figure franchises are best remade in animated form. Just like Japanese anime is doing with the likes of 'Pacific Rim' and the 'Terminator' for 'The Black' and 'Zero' on Netflix respectively. Clearly taking cues from the likes of Seth Rogen's graffiti scrawling and scripted 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem', which owes a tag to the best Spider-Man Marvel has ever made. The one that went 'Into The Spider-Verse'. Sorry Tobey, Andrew and Tom. But you had your moment. What are we talking about? We still won't spoil! Mega and in optimal condition, busting blocks, these 'Transformers' show they can flip the script and change-up once again to suit the modern mainstream movie crowd they please. The 'Age Of Extinction' is a long way away with this animated prequel. From here, the fight will be theirs. TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts', 'Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy', 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem'.

TV REVIEW: ARE YOU SURE - Season 1

3.5/5

Map Of The Soul.

8 Episodes. Starring: Jimin, Jung Kook & V. On: Disney +.

Are we there yet? Surely you don't need to ask that when we have no real destination except life itself. And in the new reality series travelogue 'Are You Sure', starring the youngest and coolest members of South Korean K-Pop phenomenon BTS, Jimin and Jung Kook (not to mention special appearances by members V and Suga (on the phone)), these big hitters continue their streaming service Disney deal with a plus. Even if this show seems like just a series of them eating food. Are you sure this isn't the cooking network? 

Following their 'Monuments: Beyond The Star' docuseries last Christmas and New Year, not to mention all the shows in concert on Disney +, like 'Permission To Dance: Live In LA', comes another documentary season of sorts. Something to hold the fans over whilst Jimin and Jung Kook conduct their mandatory military service (best of luck, boys) for the South Korean army. Much like the behind the scenes shows and album accompaniments 'J-Hope In The Box' and 'Suga: Road To D-Day', also deep into Disney's hyped HYBE entertainment vault. And any fears of this BTS hiatus being permanent are alleviated with the guys singing each other's solo songs as they take this trip across the world and a map of their favourite memories.

Jimin jokes that World Cup anthem singer Jung Kook wants to be a YouTuber as he documents their span across the globe that we are all dreamers for. From taking silly selfies, to pictures of their fabulous food, the two J's are exactly like us, across America and back to their South Korean home and map of the Seoul. With cute captions, tittering translations and emoji and emoticon effects filtering through this show, offset by Mario like sound effects, this is like the best YouTube channel you watch...but with an even bigger budget. Fond, funny and with a real fantastic feeling, even when these guys are just lazing around and doing nothing, you feel like you're hanging out with them. Even V wanted to get in on this action that makes this show (about almost as nothing as 'Seinfeld') one of the freshest and most compelling of the calendar. 

Whether snowboarding in Sapporo, Japan, go-karting on Jeju Island, or lounging around on a yacht, like you know, we all do, these boys do it all...with, or without a paddle. Cooking, camping, canoeing. Riding through it all on the back of Kook's motorbike, the 'Muse' and 'Golden' hitmakers have chemistry every friendship would feel jealousy towards. It's their camaraderie that's the winning combination on this show that shows another step for BTS and the big hits they make across all entertainment platforms. It's a great travel guide, too, to some of the planet's picture perfect, postcard stamp spots. Reminding us, in this world of woe, that it's still a beautiful one. Especially when shared with the dear friends we hold closest. Are you sure you want to miss out on this? TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'BTS - Monuments: Beyond The Star', 'BTS - Permission To Dance: Live In LA', 'Suga: Road To D-Day'.

REVIEW: ALIEN - ROMULUS

4/5

Free Face Hugs

119 Mins. Starring: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Robert Bobroczkyi & Aileen Wu. Screenplay: Fede Álvarez & Rodo Sayagues. Director: Fede Álvarez. In: Theatres.

RUN! Like an alternative AWOLNATION meme of scary situations for your reels. All as the original, cult science-fiction horror franchise 'Alien' returns like this was an 'Aliens' sequel. Right at the same time the fellow 80s (OK, 1979) haunting (or at least the original one was) sci-fi franchise 'The Terminator' is back, albeit without Arnie, for Netflix's new 'Zero' anime series. From the terrific trailers to the blood-red promotional poster that will hug your wall tighter than the bedsheets you pull up to your fearful eyes (beware the monsters under the bunk beds), it seems like the latest, and one of the greatest, in this Ridley Scott produced franchise that is no longer alien to us, is built around the amazing android of David Jonsson (outstanding in the 'Rye Lane' of the same complimenting path) issuing his warning command in red flag sinister British accent. Not to mention a sample of some of the best Dad jokes that like a comedian's cooking, tastes a little funny.

Leaving even Michael Fassbender's twinning bots looking like rookies in this solar system chess game, Jonsson steals the show to the whites of his eyes with every surprise. And he has no one to show him the fingering. From 'Prometheus' to 'Covenant', it feels like the latest Scott 'Alien' features have made us more paranoid about androids like Radiohead in these movies about Xenomorph predators. Those f###ing things that haunt us. But you best believe they're here, headbutting the glass again with their 'Family Guy' little mouth. Not so fast, y'all, because those built in Bane masks are back too. Not to mention even stranger things, like the appearance of 7'7 basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi (where was he in 'Aliens?'), amongst other surprises. One thing that keeps the bones of this back to basics, like the new LL Cool J album, space colony on the same ship's course, is the cast of relative unknowns outside of Hollywood circles.

After playing the love of Elvis's life in Sofia Coppola's 'Priscilla' and focussing on a key role in movie of the year, and our times, 'Civil War', this really is Cailee Spaeny's year (alongside Glen Powell twisting the night away as the biggest hit, man, of course). And here, just like Katherine Waterston in 'Alien: Covenant' with the gun assist, Spaeny in space shows she can play the Ripley games of franchise legend Sigourney Weaver. The 'Shadow and Bone' of Archie Renaux, 'Transformers: The Last Knight's' Isabela Merced and 'Tell Me Everything's' Spike Fearn also contribute to this colonist cast. But it's the feature film debut of Aileen Wu that really impresses, as well as reassuring me that some people just look the part bald. But we all know who the real stars of the show are, like Romulus and Remus, the Roman legends, not a comedy act, you Beavis and Buttheads. Covered in more goo than the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards that these actors are probably fresh out of.

Although we want to see Neill Blomkamp's 'Alien' movie, because 'District 9' and 'Elysium' was one hell of a job application, as much as we want to see Ben Affleck's 'Batman', 'Evil Dead' and 'Don't Breathe' director Fede Álvarez brings the previously alienated horror back to make both Ripley and Ridley proud. Scott is free of directing this franchise now, like George Lucas, and he can go back to his other gladiatorial arena this fall. Because before all this, the best 'Alien' film was Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds' 'Life'. Now air locked in with face hugging scenes of 'Jurassic Park' tension from a franchise that previously threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at you. Not to mention some zero gravity acid, blood in the water like scenes that are a real trip for your reflux. Bursting the box office's chest with no time to decompress. This is classic 'Alien', from the hull beginnings where no sound, let alone a scream, can be heard. But in space, can anybody hear you cheer? TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'Alien', 'Prometheus', 'Alien: Covenant'.

ANIME REVIEW: TERMINATOR - ZERO

4/5

Lost In Salvation.

8 Episodes. Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Yasuhiro Mamiya, Sonoya Mizuno, Toa Yukinari, André Holland, Yuuya Uchida, Rosario Dawson,  Atsumi Tanezaki, Ann Dowd & Mari Yokoo. Screenplay: Mattson Tomlin. Director: Mattson Tomlin. Created By: Mattson Tomlin. On: Netflix.

DUNDUN-DUN-DUDUN. That iconic, Matthew McConaughey chest bumping, sound of metal theme is as synonymous with 'The Terminator' as Schwarzenegger himself. And in 'Terminator: Zero', now streaming on the Netflix service, we hear the big guns of an epic Easter Egg reference that sounds, take your headphones off as you answer the call for dinner, and you'll miss it, perfect. Now, all those thinking we don't need another 'Terminator', didn't you just get back from watching 'Alien: Romulus'? Face it, like a 'Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes' soft-reboot of sorts, these cult tent pole franchises will be made to do this until they're 90. Just ask Old Man Logan.

At least Arnie isn't shelling shower curtain rings this time. Although, he'll always be welcome back. This 'Zero' dark thirty is no movie like Jessica Chastain. Nor is it 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles' made for TV. Instead of picking up from the actually enjoyable 'Terminator: Dark Fate' and 'Genisys' which went back to the motherboard roots after the gritty 'Terminator: Salvation' got more hype for the on-set judgement of Christian Bale, 'Terminator: Zero' is right there with the 'Judgement Day' of 'T2'. Perhaps the only sequel to best its original (a true science-fiction horror, genre, time and mind bender) aside from 'The Godfather' and 'The Dark Knight' (and speaking of the third, we all know how trilogies end up). And you know, like the 'Dark Fate' throwbacks, that's exactly what the fans fiend for. Meanwhile this machine with a gun arm nails it...quite literally.

Tokyo, 1997. It's not just America where machines are wreaking havoc in this franchise hybrid. Why not the rising sun land of technology, from the Casio digital basics, to the innovations today that could see Skynet thrive? I mean, head into your local Japanese shopping mall today, and you'll be greeted by an affectionate 'I, Robot' like droid called Pepper, whose cute, loving eyes literally follow you around the store. And you thought A.I. was taking over. All for these model episodes that mirror the Tokyo gas attacks and the atomic bomb like a Godzilla metaphor. What more fitting of a time to be alive with one of the most original and outstanding sci-fi franchises around, even if they have been doing this to death for the longest, outdated, old machine time? These new parts really fit though, as this original show, originally called, 'Terminator: The Anime Series' shoulders a story another movie perhaps couldn't show. Telling it like the 'Pacific Rim: The Black' spin-off.

From the same Production I.G. house that recently gave you the great 'Kaiju No. 8', 'Terminator: Zero' brings out the top guns. Created, developed, scripted and directed by showrunner Matt Tomlin (the writer of 'Project Power' who gave an assist to 'The Batman' like Alfred), 'Zero' features Timothy Olyphant, Sonoya Mizuno, André Holland, Rosario Dawson and Ann Dowd for those who like to watch Studio Ghibli movies with American actor's voices for the big names. But, if you don't mind subtitles, are learning Japanese, or if you want to hear the original voices, then the stars themselves of, Yasuhiro Mamiya, Toa, Yukinari, Yuuya Uchida, Atsumi Tanezaki and Mari Yokoo have got you. So have some of the most amazing action scenes you have plugged into in a long time, as 'Zero' terminates on site any notion that this franchise has run out of time. There's always more road. And in Tokyo, that looks picture-perfect here, they keep building a net of Murakami '19Q4' highways to the sky for cop cars to chase. Save your judgement today, 'The Terminator' is well and truly back. TIM DAVID HARVEY.

Further Filming: 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day', 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles', 'Pacific Rim: The Black'.