★★★☆☆ With an apocalyptic résumé that includes Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, Roland Emmerich is renowned as one of the biggest purveyors of over-the-top blockbuster mayhem. White House Down (2013) is very much in the same mould; […]
★★★☆☆ There are certain subjects and mediums which seem tailor-made for each other – one example being fairytales and animation. This union, which began with the release of Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed in 1926, is now continued with […]
★★☆☆☆ James Wan certainly knows his way round a haunted house. Behind the camera, he’s the de facto ghost in the closet: pulling the strings of our discomfort, trespassing from within, turning the reassuring, nurturing properties of what we identify […]
