Category: Reviews
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E. – Review
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is yet another salute to the old fashion spy genre that’s as neat and satisfying as a shaken martini. Read More >
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Fantastic Four – Review
Family: it’s one of the most powerful things we experience as humans. If you share the same blood as another, there’s a bond – innate from birth, or built upon over the years – that will stay with you until you die. Because of its universal nature, family is one of the strongest themes cinema… Read More >
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Review
In an age where many blockbusters are mainly concerned with building cinematic universes and sounding important, it’s good to know that Mission: Impossible hasn’t lost track of what makes a great summer action movie. Read More >
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Southpaw – Review
“Southpaw gets behind the facade of a boxer and revels in intimacy. But any sense of realism is undermined persistently by the filmmaker’s inclination to be so melodramatic”… Read More >
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Self/less – Review
Self/less echoes classic Twilight Zone episodes, Total Recall and especially John Frankenheimer’s Seconds. Its ideas and themes are familiar, but that’s every contemporary sci-fi thriller for you. What’s important is how the film goes about presenting these concepts in a new light. In the case of Self/less, Director Tarsem Singh has made an absorbing, well-structured… Read More >
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Ant-Man – Review
Ant-Man is yet another triumphant and unspeakably entertaining endeavour that sits pretty in Marvel’s ever-expanding universe. Read More >
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Terminator Genisys – Review
2015 has brought us a number of nostalgic blockbusters, many of which have found a strong balance between old and new. With Arnold Schwarzenegger officially back, it looked like Terminator Genisys might be another welcome return to form. While not as ugly or pointless as Terminator Salvation, this fifth entry unfortunately pales in comparison to… Read More >
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The Terminator – Review
31 years on, and the Terminator franchise is still going strong. Or rather, it’s still alive. Regardless of any nth sequel’s quality, there’s a reason this science fiction franchise has continued to inspire us for over three decades: if you strip away all the pop culture-gobbling one-liners, what still remains is a beautifully designed world… Read More >
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Everly – Review
“There is no denying how gloriously entertaining, and violently unrelenting Joe Lynch’s Everly proves to be – but it’s persistently undermined by a contrived inclination to reach for cult status”… Read More >
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Secret Cinema Presents: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – Review
“this is no ordinary cinema screening. The effort has been made on the part of the organisers to keep things as authentic as possible. You never get a sense that knock-off outfits or shoddy car-boot sale props are being used, this is the real deal.” Read More >
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