Category: Reviews
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Geostorm Review
Geostorm is like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs… minus the meatballs. Read More >
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The Foreigner Review
The Foreigner is like two different movies. One movie is a revenge flick and the other is a political thriller. Read More >
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Thoroughbreds Review (61st BFI London Film Festival)
There’s always so many treats coming out of the Sundance Film Festival at the start of every new year but gosh darn it if we struggle to see some of them here in old Blighty. Over the years, many of those “expensive” films find there way into cinemas but others don’t – lost at sea… Read More >
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Happy Death Day Review
When Edge of Tomorrow came out a few years ago, everybody wrote it off as a Groundhog Day knockoff with explosions. Against all the odds, though, Doug Liman’s film managed to be clever, funny, and fresh despite its familiar premise. The same can be said about Happy Death Day. Read More >
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 Review (61st BFI London Film Festival)
Vince Vaughn has noticeable change his acting tact in recent years with a focus more on maturing as an actor after a string of comedy hits that have put him in good stead. The likes of Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Dodgeball are the most notable of his “funny period” but with his success came… Read More >
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Blade Runner 2049 Review
Just as Villeneuve turned in a modern science fiction masterpiece with last year’s Arrival, he’s done the same in Blade Runner 2049. Read More >
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Brimstone Review
There is a myriad of narratives merged together in a rather clumsy fashion, though Koolhoven does ensure the viewer just about remains compelled. Read More >
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle Review
Sequels are hard. For every successful film there’s always talk of another entry, a follow-up installment that will explore the “mythology” of the created universe – whether super or not – and bring back all those things you loved and more. But the balancing act between bringing the familiar and the new together whilst still… Read More >
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American Assassin Review
As you can tell from the title to this Michael Cuesta thriller, American Assassin is a disappointingly generic endeavour, that takes an intriguing premise and sadly gives it the cliched Hollywood treatment. It’s a shame for this title studies a contemporary landscape, and a very present anxiety in the Western world following the recent influx… Read More >
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Wind River Review
Writer Taylor Sheridan has slowly but surely ascended up the Hollywood ladder in the last few years after some wildly successful films that he has lent his penship too. An actor himself, it was his work on Sons of Anarchy that first earnt him huge acclaim as a writer, before two films catapulted him into… Read More >
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