Movies

Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.

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Review – Naked

August 13 2017, by Daniel Hart

Naked is a remake of the 2000 Swedish film Naken. It is a Netflix Original romantic comedy about a guy who is pretty much naked...

Review – Girls Trip

August 8 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

What’s this? About a year ago, a friend of mine pointed me towards a YouTube video in which a woman who calls herself Angel demonstrated...

Review – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 

August 5 2017, by Daniel Hart

After many apparent hesitations, director Luc Besson and his wife decided to write an English-language French science fiction action-adventure film titled Valerian and the City...

Review – The Emoji Movie

August 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Surprising absolutely nobody, The Emoji Movie is an insulting travesty without a shred of wit, intelligence or worth; a shameless, unfunny slab of advertising that...

Review – Atomic Blonde

August 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

It’s Jane Wick. Okay, sorry, that’s not entirely accurate. But I’ve had that joke lined up since the first trailer, and while it might not...

Opinion – Why I loved To The Bone

August 4 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Beware: as this is an opinion piece there will be spoilers. To The Bone is a touching film about a young girl named Ellen (Lily...

‘Imperial Dreams’ Review – A Movie With Very Strong Themes

August 2 2017, by Daniel Hart

Imperial Dreams was actually released at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Based on research it did not make strides in terms of distribution. Whiplash probably did not...

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Review – A Weaker Second Half

July 24 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Allow me to direct you to my review of the first half of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, which contains all the blathering about...

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 Review

July 21 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Batman: The...

‘The Story of 90 Coins’ Review – A Film That Resonates

July 20 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

The Story of 90 Coins is the directorial debut of Michael Wong, a Malaysian filmmaker currently based in Beijing. It’s the story of a promise...

Superman vs The Elite Review – An Intriguing and Topical Superman Story

July 19 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Superman vs. The Elite is an adaptation – although, if we’re being completely honest, an expansion – of a story from Action Comics #775 called...

‘Justice League: Doom’ Review – A Surprisingly Dark Story

July 19 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Justice League: Doom is the motion picture version of Mark Waid’s Justice League of America arc, JLA: Tower of Babel, from 2000, adapted for the...

Batman: Year One Review

July 19 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Batman: Year One is a DC Universe Animated Original Movie. Check out the full archive by clicking these words. Batman: Year One is the animated adaptation...

Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming

July 9 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

It’s the sixth Spider-Man movie since the dawn of the new millennium, the second live-action reboot of the character, and the sixteenth entry into the...

‘You Get Me’ Review – Storytelling That’s Too Simple

July 2 2017, by Daniel Hart

It’s one of those Netflix movies that keeps getting churned out by the Netflix movie maker factory. This time it’s a generic looking thriller/drama called...

Review – Transformers: The Last Knight

June 28 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

You know what this is: the FIFTH of Michael Bay’s inexplicably-successful Transformers movies. I’ve never met a single person who genuinely likes these things, and...

Review – Wonder Woman

June 10 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

And… relax. It’s fine. Don’t let the overwhelmingly positive critical reaction fool you, though. It isn’t great – or, at the very least, it isn’t...

Review – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

May 30 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Somewhere in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, there’s a Guy Ritchie movie. You can see it, occasionally. For two or three scenes, the FX-leaden...