Film Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
★★☆☆☆ In his latest film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, French director Luc Besson offers up a phantasmagorical sci-fi where the thrust […]
Film Review: Miss Sloane
★★★★☆ There’s little doubt that the success of John Madden’s latest film, Miss Sloane, lays in the blisteringly chilly performance from Jessica Chastain as a […]
Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
★★★☆☆ Three years on from their first outing, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy return with Volume 2. The result is a difficult second album […]
Film Review: Beauty and the Beast
★★★★☆ It’s been nearly three decades since the release of Disney’s first attempt at Beauty and the Beast and now, like Cinderella and The Jungle […]
Film Review: Silence
★★★★☆ God’s Will, or the lack thereof, lies at the core of Martin Scorsese’s Silence, based on the novel by the Japanese author Shûsaku Endô. […]
Film Review: Fantastic Beasts
★★★★☆ Five years on from the final instalment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we return to the Wizarding World for an enchanting tale […]
DVD Review: The Neon Demon
★★★★☆ The opening shot of Nicolas Winding Refn’s dreamlike tenth feature The Neon Demon sees Elle Fanning as rosy-cheeked model Jesse draped in macabre glory […]
Film Review: Boyz n the Hood
★★★★☆ “Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.” These are the now iconic, and still deeply […]
Film Review: Inferno
★☆☆☆☆ How do you make the fire and brimstone of The Divine Comedy, the cobbled streets of one of Italy’s most beautiful cities and the […]
Film Review: The Girl with All the Gifts
★★★☆☆ Colm McCarthy’s second feature film, The Girl with All the Gifts is a gory and unsettling examination of the nature versus nurture dichotomy, and […]
Film Review: Ghostbusters
★★★★☆ Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot has already suffered from a pre-release backlash in certain corners of the internet as fans debated whether it could live […]
Film Review: Captain America: Civil War
★★★☆☆ The Russo brothers return with Captain America: Civil War, pitting two of Marvel’s favourite sons against each other – but are you #TeamCap or […]
Film Review: The Jungle Book
★★★★☆ Remakes can often find themselves balancing precariously on a knife’s edge. Indulge in too much reverence to the original and you aren’t innovating enough. […]
Film Review: The Huntsman: Winter’s War
★★☆☆☆ Four years on from Rupert Sanders’ critically derided yet financially lucrative Snow White and The Huntsman we have the delayed, inevitable follow-up: The Huntsman: […]
Film Review: Sisters
★★★★☆ Tina Fey and Amy Poehler pair up once more for the raucous quasi-Christmas comedy Sisters (2015). Penned by Saturday Night Live writer Paula Pell […]
DVD Review: Fantastic Four
★★☆☆☆ Whichever way you look at the negative buzz surrounding Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four (2015), it seems to have confirmed its fate before audiences could […]
Film Review: ‘The Good Dinosaur’
★★★★★ From first-time feature director Peter Sohn, Disney Pixar’s latest The Good Dinosaur is a crowning triumph, blending jaw-dropping photorealistic animation with a heart-wrenchingly beautiful […]
Film Review: ‘Black Mass’
★★★☆☆ Scott Cooper’s real-life crime drama Black Mass (2015) is constantly trying to escape the looming shadow of past gangster cinema triumphs. It all too […]