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Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – The Creator

The Creator Movie Review

THE CREATOR MOVIE REVIEW

From the director of Godzilla and Rogue One comes this new sci-fi film NOT based on a previous IP (at least not overtly), The Creator. In the future, the humanoid robots humanity have built have achieved total sentience, despite most of the world’s reluctance to accept their ‘humanity’. After a nuclear attack on LA by the robots, America is on the hunt and are closing in on the last resistance spots in New Asia, an area sympathetic to the robots. A former undercover operative, Joshua Taylor (John David Washington) after losing his wife (who was a human working with the robots) is talked into going back to enemy territory after he is shown evidence his wife might still be alive. The military wants him to find a secret weapon the robots are developing and destroy it, but when he discovers it is in the form of a robot child, and that maybe things aren’t as clear-cut as the Americans have advertised as to who is the aggressor here, he starts rethinking his allegiances. Chris and Wright dive into this Spielbergian tale, marvel how it was made for 80 million, and still kinda wish for more.

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DIRECTED BY: Gareth Edwards

STARRING: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Amar Chadha-Patel, Marc Menchaca, Robbie Tann, Ralph Ineson, Michael Esper, Veronica Ngo

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Photo on 2011-10-02 at 13.02Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

” width=Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)

Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.

 

 

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