Movies

You can’t trust a great cast these days. Fountain of Youth had a pretty good one, and it was rubbish, which is always the expectation...

The risk with making a laid-back chill-out movie is that there’s such a thing as a movie being too chilled out for its own good,...

In a classic case of having one’s cake and eating it – never understood that expression; what else would you do with a cake? –...

Blimey, this is going to annoy people, isn’t it? The underlying thesis of Our Times, a Netflix rom-com about two married physicists who accidentally travel...

The predetermined moment in the Ballerina ending is when Eve finally catches up to The Chancellor, an elusive man with an ideological worldview about the...

There’s always a risk when you expand a universe–a fact that has sparked social media debate over the limits of the MCU–but Ballerina was the...

Netflix love a themed series. In the absence of Untold – which concluded its fifth “season” with Shooting Guards, The Liver King, and The Fall...

It’s rare these days that we are delivered a film that brings a resounding green light on the sanctity of marriage. Often, we are presented...

If you cast an MMA fighter in the lead role of a movie, it’s a fairly obvious statement about what that movie is intended to...

Lost in Starlight is something of a first. It has been branded as Netflix’s first Korean animated feature, which is technically accurate, despite the prevalence...

Hey, remember the Fear Street trilogy? What a surprising success that was for Netflix. At least partially a consequence of an unprecedented global health crisis...

There’s a moment in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth when treasure hunter Luke Purdue (John Krasinski, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) steals a Rembrandt painting from...

Dark humour is a safety mechanism, a release valve for when the pressure of real life gets too much to handle. If we can laugh...

Well, we’d better be careful with this one, folks. You can say a lot about Brett Favre, but at least you can’t accuse him of...

Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, is a fascinating subject for Netflix’s Untold because he’s at once both a ridiculous charlatan and an indescribably compelling...

I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only...

Sometimes a movie exists for no better reason than to simply mind its business, and that’s very much the vibe I get from Nonnas. It’s...

I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...