Movies

A few weeks have passed since the release of Michael, the biographical tribute to the late Michael Jackson – a man who could stand on...

I have to say that I’m genuinely surprised by how many people are shocked to see a skinhead Taron Egerton terrorising Charlize Theron in Netflix’s Apex....

Whatever has motivated some of Taron Egerton’s recent career choices, I’ve got to say that I’m into it. He should probably never play a good...

A while ago, I reviewed the movie Train Dreams on Netflix – don’t worry, this is going somewhere – and said that it was basically...

Most action movies treat their plot as a conveyor belt for fight scenes and their characters like crash test dummies, so on that level, at...

At first blush, The Death & Life of Lamar Odom doesn’t seem like the typical Untold documentary. Sure, the life of former NBA star Lamar...

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...

You’re not supposed to root for the killer in slasher movies, or perhaps more accurately, you’re not supposed to admit that’s what you’re doing. But...

Maybe it’s just me, but a Pixar movie release doesn’t seem as big of a deal as it once did. Hoppers is simultaneously validating (nobody...

It is basically inarguable at this point that the circumstances surrounding the production of Scream 7 have coloured its critical reception to a not-insignificant degree....

Immediacy is in vogue at the moment, and there’s nothing more immediate than a first-person perspective, something that video games have understood forever but that...

I’ve argued in favour of typecasting before, and Jason Statham is one of my go-to examples of actors who do one thing well enough that...

The thing that worked about Greenland was that it was an anti-disaster movie. It promised a world-ending calamity and eventually delivered it, but the impact...

To be clear, there’s a third-act action sequence in Pretty Lethal that is one of the year’s best, and will likely remain so. It’s a...

Mark Normand has always been an equal opportunity offender, someone whose material runs the whole gamut of hot-button topics, racial stereotypes, and gender cliches, with...

I get that now isn’t exactly the time for a jingoistic war movie about America’s best and bravest tussling with some problematic foreign power, so...

I’m ordinarily the first person to forgive a good action movie for all kinds of sins, just so long as it delivers where it counts....