Sweet but sadly infertile couple Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle Breyer (David Denman) have been praying for a child. Unfortunately, the prayers are answered by rather suspect channels. A spaceship lands next to their Kansas farm — because of course it’s Kansas — and inside the ship is a little baby boy. The now happy couple decide to keep the child and raise him as their own, which is honestly a more dubious prospect than this movie depicts. Exactly how do you just tell people you’ve adopted a kid? Wouldn’t schools and the like need proper documentation of where this kid came from? Regardless the Breyer family have twelve happy years with their loving son Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn), who seems to be a bright and well-adjusted kid if considered a bit nerdy by his classmates, but when “puberty” hits, something inside Brandon is triggered.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Brightburn (2019) – Review
What if Ma and Pa Kent had found an evil alien baby instead of Superboy? This is the basic premise to the horror film Brightburn, where writers Mark and Brian Gunn give us a dark fantasy tale of a being with incredible powers, one who doesn’t seem to care about Truth, Justice or the American Way. Now, this is certainly not the first time we’ve seen this kind of superhero “What If” story; Mark Miller’s Red Son dealt with a world where Superman had landed in the Soviet Union, and even regular-ass Superman has gone evil from time to time — curse you Red Kryptonite — but producer James Gunn isn’t playing around in DC’s Extended Universe, so instead we will be seeing knock-off versions of Martha and Jonathon Kent. Also, there will be lots and lots of gore.
Sweet but sadly infertile couple Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle Breyer (David Denman) have been praying for a child. Unfortunately, the prayers are answered by rather suspect channels. A spaceship lands next to their Kansas farm — because of course it’s Kansas — and inside the ship is a little baby boy. The now happy couple decide to keep the child and raise him as their own, which is honestly a more dubious prospect than this movie depicts. Exactly how do you just tell people you’ve adopted a kid? Wouldn’t schools and the like need proper documentation of where this kid came from? Regardless the Breyer family have twelve happy years with their loving son Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn), who seems to be a bright and well-adjusted kid if considered a bit nerdy by his classmates, but when “puberty” hits, something inside Brandon is triggered.
Sweet but sadly infertile couple Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle Breyer (David Denman) have been praying for a child. Unfortunately, the prayers are answered by rather suspect channels. A spaceship lands next to their Kansas farm — because of course it’s Kansas — and inside the ship is a little baby boy. The now happy couple decide to keep the child and raise him as their own, which is honestly a more dubious prospect than this movie depicts. Exactly how do you just tell people you’ve adopted a kid? Wouldn’t schools and the like need proper documentation of where this kid came from? Regardless the Breyer family have twelve happy years with their loving son Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn), who seems to be a bright and well-adjusted kid if considered a bit nerdy by his classmates, but when “puberty” hits, something inside Brandon is triggered.
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