Movies

I had some time to kill on Sunday evening, and in such circumstances like to try a film at the cinema which I know nothing...

For those in the know, the Scott Adkins actioner is a very specific, very beautiful thing, and his recent collaborations with the reliably demented Jesse...

The Curse of La Llorona is not the first film about La Llorona, but it’s the first I’d heard of. As an ignorant European, I...

Guy Ritchie would be the last director I could think of to direct a mammoth Disney family production. Even less of an obvious choice for...

The Secret Life of Pets was my favorite animated film of 2016. I had so much fun with it I managed to slip it into...

There’s nothing glamorous about Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai’s 2018 movie Joy. A bleak and sobering glimpse into the grim underworld of sex trafficking, it’s a...

I appreciate what Netflix film Rim of the World is building, having a band of teenagers face a daunting alien invasion in the most engineered situation....

In High Life, Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter, Willow (Scarlett Lindsay), are the last survivors aboard a cubic spaceship hurtling away from earth....

There comes a time when a film comes along that heavily tests your chair in film criticism, and that time came to me today, in...

Director Dexter Fletcher took over last year’s Bohemian Rhapsody after the original director, Bryan Singer, was replaced. He was never given an actual director credit...

There isn’t much to say about any of the adaptations of W. Bruce Cameron’s series of books about the trials and tribulations that canines have...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s final novel, is one of those films that has you wondering what might...

The Hive does one special thing to the zombie formula. When Adam (Gabriel Basso) starts to remember his life, he says, “I must be an...

Wayne Roberts’s The Professor is a sudden realization that life is ridiculously short, with the drama starring Johnny Depp viewing life in the shallowest of ways. We...

I’m an enthusiastic advocate of Alycia Debnam-Carey, who you might remember as the only watchable part of Fear the Walking Dead‘s dreadful fourth season. And predictably,...

Olivia Wilde’s directional debut Booksmart is nothing short of an instant classic. With a stellar cast of inspiring and upcoming talent Booksmart takes audiences on a coming...

Netflix’s new addition to it’s feel-good repertoire comes in the form of light-hearted movie Good Sam. Good Sam is a buoyantly pleasant movie that casually...

While watching Hernán Zin’s Netflix documentary Dying to Tell (Morir para contar) it suddenly dawned on me that the footage we see of explosions, heavy ammo and...