Movie Reviews

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...

My son said the trailer for Patrick looked intriguing because it was short, and gave little away. He said he wished more trailers were like...

This is utter garbage. Penalty Kick, also known as its original title La pena máxima, manages to suck the life out of football. What a time to do...

If I was to tell you The Endless is the new film by the guys who made Spring, would that mean anything to you? If...

This review of Calibre contains minor spoilers. Airing on Netflix today, just a week after its home-turf debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival where it...