Movies
Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.
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‘Support the Girls’ | Film Review
When it comes to Hollywood portraying middle-class America, it often is regulated to scenes that feel like middle America rather than what they actually are....
‘The Nun’ | Film Review
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...
‘Juliet, Naked’ | Film Review
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,...
‘Clockers’ (1995) | Film Review
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...
‘Next Gen’ | Netflix Original Film Review
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...
How to solve the Predator problem
Predator is a fantastic action film that launched one of the truly iconic sci-fi monsters of all time. Yet despite the success of the original film...
‘Blindspotting’ | Film Review
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...
‘Minding the Gap’ | Film Review
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...
‘UFO’ (2018) | Film Review
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...
‘City of Joy’ | Netflix Documentary Review
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...
‘American Animals’ | Film Review
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,...
Searching (2018) Review
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...
‘On My Skin’ (‘Sulla mia pelle’) | Venice 2018 Film Review
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,...
‘BlacKkKlansman’ | Film Review
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...
‘The Laws of Thermodynamics’ | Netflix Film Review
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’ | Frightfest 2018 Film Review
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’ | Frightfest 2018 Film Review
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...
‘The After Party’ | Netflix Film Review
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...