Movies
Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.
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‘OtherLife’ Review – Good Practice For The Director
Ben C. Lucas brought us an ambitious, flawed bit of pulp sci-fi from the sunny shores of Australia. It’s a rumination on the pitfalls of...
Review – You’re Next
When the Davison family got together for their parents’ 35th wedding anniversary, they knew some sort of drama would be on the cards. After all,...
Review – One of Us (2017)
Director(s): Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady Writer(s): Also above Rating: 12 Release Date: October 20, 2017 What’s this? What this documentary represents is nothing new. One...
Review – Final Destination
Director: James Wong Writer(s): James Wong, Glen Morgan, Jeffrey Reddick Rating: R Release Date: March 17, 2000 What’s this? Watered down with sequel after sequel,...
‘The LEGO Ninjago Movie’ Review – A Serviceable Piece Of Work
Our third trip down the well-stocked aisles of Toys R Us, this time in search of LEGO’s apparently-popular Ninjago; a more narrative-heavy extension of LEGO’s...
‘Better Watch Out’ Review – A Fun Take On A Seasonal Slasher
It’s a Christmas-themed home-invasion thriller that rather quickly reinvents itself as a deceptively novel and clever subversion of a Christmas-themed home-invasion thriller. It’s also incredibly...
Review – Let the Right One In
Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) is a lonely 12-year-old living in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm. He suffers from relentless bullying at school and dreams of one...
‘The Fourth Kind’ Review – An Insult To Both The Real-Life People Concerned And Their Memory
The Fourth Kind, recounts a real case having occurred in Nome, Alaska, regarding a string of unsolved deaths and missing persons. A psychologist, Dr. Abigail...
‘The Crucifixion’ Review – A Flat-Pack, Self-Assembly Genre Film
Just as there are some fates worse than death – such as, let’s say, being possessed by an ancient, body-hopping evil – there are some...
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Review
Directed by Noah Baumbach, we review the 2017 Netflix movie The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), which does not contain spoilers. I fondly remember when...
‘Sleepwalker (2017)’ Review – An Ambitious Movie But It’s A Real Mess
Once, when I was younger and much, much stupider, I walked for five miles in the middle of the night, totally unaware of what I...
Review – The Babysitter (2017)
At a glance, you would believe that The Babysitter is going to be the usual recycled garbage that Netflix churns out on a fortnightly basis...
‘Bomb Scared (2017)’ Review – A Dark Comedy On Useless People
Whilst the industry quarrels amongst themselves on whether the power of streaming is poisoning traditional cinema, Netflix are scattering releases in various forms and genres....
‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review – An Enlightening and Educational Documentary
This documentary follows the life and death of Marsha P. Johnson. She was a gay African American who was a leading figure in fighting for...
Review – The Babadook
What is surprising, poignant, provocative, and frightening about The Babadook is its honesty. Here is a film – a debut feature, no less, written and...
‘Martyrs (2008)’ Review – A Disjointed Slasher
It feels to me that the disfigured ghoulish woman will be used in horror films forever. In the case of Martyrs, it inflicts terror on a...
Review – My Little Pony: The Movie
Thanks to a series of incredibly bizarre events, earlier this evening I found myself in a screening of My Little Pony: The Movie, along with...