Film Review: ‘The Boxtrolls’
★★★★☆ There’s more than a touch of the macabre to Laika Studios’ latest stop-motion adventure, The Boxtrolls (2014). With a spellbinding voice cast featuring...
★★☆☆☆ Compared to many authors, Virginia Woolf has fared relatively well on screen. Eileen Atkins’ one-woman stage show, A Room of One’s Own, that...
★★★☆☆ IVF remains a rarely discussed topic in cinema, even though millions of people go through it each year, which makes Harry Wootliff’s debut...
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy in which the peril lies...
★★★★☆ There’s more than a touch of the macabre to Laika Studios’ latest stop-motion adventure, The Boxtrolls (2014). With a spellbinding voice cast featuring...
★★★☆☆ Erik Poppe’s globetrotting drama A Thousand Times Goodnight (2013) opens to an extraordinarily tense scene. War photographer Rebecca (French star Juliette Binoche) stands...
★★★★☆ With a title like Next Goal Wins (2014), you’d be forgiven for thinking that British filmmakers Mike Brett and Steve Jamison’s debut documentary...
★★★☆☆ Only an actor with as much natural charisma as Mad Men star Jon Hamm (who plays ad man Donald Draper in the hit...
★★★★★ Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece The Shining (1980) is one of those rare films that has found itself submerged into the public consciousness across...
★★★★☆ There’s a fabled quote from 2004 written in The New York Times by Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to the George W....
★★☆☆☆ French director Michel Gondry is well-known for his eccentricities and wild imagination. However, with his latest quirksome endeavour, Mood Indigo (2013), the director...
★★★★☆ Let it be howled from the mountain tops that with his extraordinary Noah (2014), director Darren Aronofsky has crafted a bold, phantasmagorical interpretation...