A Review Too Far - Zootopia

This week our cinema geeks review Starship Troopers, The Witch, and Zootopia.

First up is Starship Troopers, a scifi action flick loosely based on the novel by Robert Heinlein and following the exploits of a group of Mobile Infantry recruits fresh out of high school who join up initially to gain citizenship in their society, but find themselves caught in a war against extinction as Earth is attacked by intelligent space bugs. Starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, and Denise Richards, Starship Troopers also has roles for Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ironside, Jake Busey, Clancy Brown, and Rue McClanahan.

After that is The Witch, a period film about a Puritan family who is shunned by their community and forced to settle far from civilization. As they flounder and risk starvation their first season, they are troubled by more supernatural threats that start to haunt them with the kidnapping of their youngest child. Fear and paranoia claim the family one by one as they begin to accuse each other of witchcraft. The Witch stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, and Harvey Scrimshaw.

Last, but not least, is the computer animated film Zootopia, a buddy cop flick that takes place in an anthropomorphic animal society where mammals, both predator and prey, coexist in harmony... until predators start going berserk with no explanation. It's up to a rookie bunny cop and the cunning fox criminal that she cons into helping her to solve the case. Zootopia features the voice talents of Ginnefer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J.K.Simmons, Jenny Slate, and Alan Tudyk.