Movie Reviews

If like me you’ve been looking forward to The Nun, I’m sorry to say you will probably be at least a bit disappointed. I left...

I decided to drag my wife on a cross-country, nine-state jaunt to see Pearl Jam in Tulsa, OK, Lincoln, NE & Austin, TX, using planes,...

To honour the success of BlackKklansman, we have taken a look back at Clockers, a lost in the shuffle Spike Lee Joint that was ahead...

There’s a story behind Next Gen, which debuted on Netflix today. The Chinese-Canadian co-production by directors Kevin Adams and Joe Ksander was picked up at Cannes...

In Blindspotting, a middle-aged cop unloads his weapon into a young, unarmed male on a quiet street at night in Oakland, CA. Just after he...

Filmmakers from different races, genders, and upbringings are being given platforms to a wider net to express their unique views that weren’t available before. Alternate...

The rather obviously-titled UFO was clearly a student at the Dan Brown school of so-called “clever” fiction. It speaks entirely in mouthfuls of semi-interesting facts...

I welled up ever so slightly during City of Joy. The Netflix documentary details so much tragedy, yet curtails the depression with hope, signifying a light at...

Writer-director Bart Layton’s American Animals is a funny, suspenseful heist film wrapped around a true crime documentary. And it’s just brilliant. Evan Peters, Barry Keoughan,...

We review the 2018 film Searching, which does not contain any major spoilers or plot points.  Searching might look like a found-footage film at first, and...

In 2009, 172 inmates died in Italian prisons. I know this because the figure is revealed at the end of Alessio Cremonini’s On My Skin,...

I went into BlacKkKlansman knowing absolutely nothing about it, but the premise sounded so unbelievable that it could only be based on a true story. The...

Netflix’s The Laws of Thermodynamics, or known in the native language as Las leyes de la termodinámica, is not the best film of 2018. But it is undeniably...

Pimped is a simple tale: Sarah (Ella Scott Lynch) feels the need for a night out, hooks up with Lewis (Benedict Samuel) at a bar,...

Lifechanger reminded me of Spring: a film about a “monster” hiding in plain sight, which is also a love story. But that’s where the similarity...

I never thought I’d experience a movie that slots in as many cutesy references as Ready Player One, but Netflix’s The After Party is a...

I’m not going to beat around the bush: Boar is – as director Chris Sun has said – “a really big pig that kills people.” The...

I must confess to not being entirely familiar with the Sharknado franchise, but I can’t imagine that matters. As I understand it, the one-joke premise...