Category: Reviews

  • A Monster Calls Review

    As you begin to smile, the teller ruins even that by explaining it to you like you’re an idiot. Read More >

  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Review

    Miss Peregrine delivers an enjoyable adventure with enough eye candy to satisfy your artistic appetite. Read More >

  • Nine Lives – Review

    Nine Lives has its moments, but ultimately is not exactly the film you may have envisaged when hearing of a collaboration between Spacey and Walken. Read More >

  • Pete’s Dragon – Review

    Lowery’s preceding endeavour maintained an indelible atmosphere and certain melancholy, and the filmmaker has struggled to quite let that go, crafting a feature in Pete’s Dragon that could well prove to be a little inaccessible to a younger crowd. Read More >

  • The BFG – Review

    In a vast array of summer blockbusters, The BFG is a definite standout. Read More >

  • Game of Thrones Season 6: “The Winds of Winter” Review

    SPOILER WARNING: If you have not watched Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 10: “The Winds of Winter,” do not read on. King’s Landing, more specifically the Great Sept of Baelor, is in ruins after the shocking first half of “The Winds of Winter.” Cersei destroys all of her enemies with wildfire. Brother Lancel crawls… Read More >

  • Game of Thrones Season 6: “Battle of the Bastards” Review

    SPOILER WARNING: If you have not watched Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 9: “Battle of the Bastards” do not read on. “Battle of the Bastards” is a blitzkrieg of an episode. Jon and Ramsay go to war, Daenerys unleashes her full grown dragons on the attacking Masters — and the tyrannical Ramsay Bolton meets his… Read More >

  • Gods of Egypt – Review

    You would think the film would be endearingly kitsch, and a guilty pleasure of sorts, but as we trudge through this picture it just becomes more and more tedious. Read More >

  • Tale of Tales – Review

    All fiction is fantasy. No, really; every movie, regardless of genre, is an invitation to use our imaginations, and every movie takes that suspension of disbelief and runs with it in different ways. Just because a film might ostensibly fall under the label ‘fantasy’ doesn’t mean that the realm it creates is any less fictional, and just because a film… Read More >

  • Game of Thrones Season 6: “No One” Review

    SPOILER WARNING: If you have not watched Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 8: “No One,” do not read on. “No One” begins with Sandor Clegane prowling through the trees, wielding an axe. He tracks down a group from the Brotherhood Without Banners and murders them violently. One quick swing results in a decapitation, another… Read More >