Movie Reviews

There are many films about people trying to stop a crime they just know is going to happen: The Warning (El Aviso) is another. And...

I’m an unapologetic advocate of Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer, from 2014, which rebooted the late-80s Edward Woodward TV series with a tea-sipping, classic-literature-reading, obsessive-compulsive Denzel...

Sometimes I put my cards on the table because of my views or experience: this time, it’s because of experience and views I don’t have....

Ah, the Happy Madison logo, the one thing at the start of any film that guarantees you are in for a terrible time. And Netflix’s...

You’d be forgiven for not having heard of Duck Duck Goose, which arrives on Netflix today after a sneaky UK theatrical release. It received virtually...

Netflix’s Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle is the sequel to last year’s Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters. That film was about an alliance...

Rawson Thurber’s Skycraper is the illegitimate lovechild of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno, pitting one of the world’s most impressive and imposing structures against...

As I write this, I’m sat beside a little shelf full of cheerleading trophies, including one that I used as an ashtray when I was...

How many Mexican horror films can you name? I have seen a few: Cronos (Guillermo del Toro), We Are What We Are (Jorge Michel Grau),...

How It Ends suspiciously markets itself like it is Netflix’s next baby, with a title that hints at an apocalypse and a film poster that...

5th Passenger, a Star Trek reunion brought to us largely by a successful Kickstarter campaign, is the kind of cheap-looking science-fiction that makes up for...

There is a lot that is great about Marrowbone (or The Secret of Marrowbone, if you’re in the UK or Spain). Really, a lot. I...

In the opening minutes of 100 Days of Solitude, also known as 100 Days of Loneliness (100 días de soledad), Spanish photographer José Díaz sounds like he...

Jack London’s White Fang was originally published in 1906 and has been adapted countless times since, including in a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke. The...

From one film about manly hunting men to the next, also gracing Netflix on this fine Friday is The Skin of the Wolf or in its...

Jackie Chan is 64 years of age. He’d qualify for a free bus pass. Not that he’d ever use it; a career sprung out of...

Gotti, the new biopic starring John Travolta and directed by Kevin Connolly, is perhaps the finest comedy of the year. Unintentionally, of course. In many...

The Purge was a home invasion story; the sequels brought the same scenario into the streets and into politics. The First Purge presents the proof of...