Category: Reviews
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Ad Astra Review
With echoes of Kubrick, Nolan, and even Malick, Ad Astra is a film that reaches for the stars in more ways than one. Read More >
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Logan Review
Last year, X-Men fans finally got the Deadpool movie they had been waiting for. Now after multiple failed attempts, 20th Century Fox has finally produced the standalone Wolverine movie audiences have always wanted to see. Logan couldn’t have come at a better time, especially since this will be Hugh Jackman’s final appearance as the titular… Read More >
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Colossal – Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
Genre mash-ups can be a work of genius or a flat out dud; able to breath life into a stale idea, or add another ill-conceived pastiche that appears more like a parody. Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal is a work of immense feeling, pivoting its dark, emotional story back and forth through a quirky small-town atmosphere and… Read More >
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Arrival – Review (Toronto International Film Festival)
Movie magic reaches its outermost limits when you’re sitting in on a new Sci-Fi film that carries an aura of mystery. Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival hits all the traditional notes, he keeps it gripping, emotional and acutely down to earth. There’s no shaky cam, noisy explosions or monstrous aliens on the prowl in this… Read More >
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Cocoon – Review
For the USA, Ron Howard is a national treasure. For the rest of the world, he’s an absolute crowd-pleaser: films like Splash have marked him out as a master of light entertainment, while Apollo 13 had the awards klaxon calling. This success has been thanks in no small part to his level of filmmaking craft, and a… Read More >
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Midnight Special – Review
Midnight Special has some of the best buildup and atmosphere modern sci-fi has to offer. Read More >
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High-Rise – Review
Ben Wheatley is ahead of us all. Regardless that his follow-up to A Field in England feels like a film that used to get made in a healthier moviemaking era, or that the JG Ballard novel it’s based on is 45 years old, the British director is always one elusive step ahead of us in… Read More >
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10 Cloverfield Lane – Review
You won’t find any spoilers in this review, as 10 Cloverfield Lane is such a fun movie to watch unfold. Read More >
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The Survivalist – Review
This minimalist, intense and uncomfortable piece of cinema is immensely subtle and nuanced. Read More >
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Victor Frankenstein – Review
“Victor Frankenstein works better when overstated, revelling in the pantomime-esque elements, than it does in the latter stages when we broach the subject of humanity”… Read More >
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