Movies

There’s a moment in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (the fifth of these movies – they don’t always put numbers on them) in which Tom...

“If it bleeds, it leads.” That’s the slogan of Bill Paxton’s ambulance-chasing “nightcrawler” Joe Loder; the words of dubious wisdom he bestows upon gaunt, bug-eyed...

Everyone loves a comeback story. In sports, in the movies, in life, we enjoy seeing someone get beaten down and told they can’t until, eventually,...

You’d need all ten fingers and probably six claws to count the ways in which Logan shouldn’t work. For one thing, it’s not an X-Men...

Warcraft has the best-looking Orcs I’ve ever seen in a piece of media. Honestly. Despite all the horrible things I’m going to say about this...

Boxing movies aren’t – have never been, really – original. But what they do is romanticise that aspect of the sport that has always rebelled...

Whenever I watch a horror film, I like to play a little game. The objective is to guess how and when each of the characters...

At about the halfway point of Creed, the seventh entry in the forty-year-old Rocky saga, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) fights...

The other morning, I awoke to an email from a friend concerning his opinion on Jurassic World: “I’m glad they finally realized how stupid all...

The best scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron is, unsurprisingly, one we saw in the trailers. It’s not the bit in which Tony Stark (Robert...

As a general rule, video games make terrible movies. This is a fact. Browse briefly through the catalogue of German madman Uwe Boll. Take a...

Arrival is a movie about humanity’s first contact with an unknowable alien race, which is funny because sometimes I feel like I’m the only person...

As a fun little exercise, I’d like you to imagine that every time I use quotation marks in this review of Annabelle, I’m also making...

When I sat down to watch Foxcatcher, I had no knowledge of Foxcatcher. Didn’t know it was a real-life tragedy; I had no idea the...

Please, never, ever watch A Serbian Film. That sounds like some kind of challenge, doesn’t it? I’d much rather you didn’t take it as one....

I know what you’re thinking, and so does The Equalizer. Most critics won’t ever peep their heads out from beneath the comfortable blanket of their...