TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.8 – ‘Omega Station’
I lost interest in this season of True Detective around the time Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) lost his moustache; which was ironically the moment…
GHOSTBUSTERS: I Ain’t Afraid of No Girls
Any moviegoer would have predicted Ghostbusters to become one of the most sequelled movies ever, but the 1984 comedy’s live-action hopes fizzled after 1989’s poorly-received follow-up—which had fun moments,…
WATERWORLD (1995)
Waterworld still evokes feelings of cinematic misfortune, two decades after the post-apocalyptic action film’s summer release, but time’s been kind to this 1995 ‘flopbuster’. Indeed, despite…
Trailer: SUICIDE SQUAD
What’s it about? A key cog in DC Comics’ shared cinematic universe ambitions (which began with Man of Steel), Suicide Squad will directly follow Batman…
Trailer: BATMAN v SUPERMAN – DAWN OF JUSTICE
What’s it about? Take a wild guess. The Caped Crusader has a score to settle with the Man of Steel, after the latter’s ruckus…
THE VOICES (2014)
Thoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium episode “The…
SENSE8 – Season One
Having invigorated sci-fi action with 1999’s The Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski have struggled to match their cyberpunk sensation. Two inferior sequels followed in 2003,…
TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (1990)
Anthology TV series are currently enjoying a minor resurgence, with the success of Channel 4’s Black Mirror, BBC2’s Inside No.9 and, in a looser…
Trailer: THE MARTIAN
What’s it about? Based on the best-selling novel by American author Andy Weir (which he self-published in 2011, before it was re-released in 2014),…
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014)
The second Matthew Vaughn film about a group of youngsters taught to develop their skills and harness their potential (after X-Men: First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service finds the Kick-Ass…
JURASSIC PARK Saga (1993, 1997, 2001)
To celebrate this weekend’s release of Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World (22 years after Steven Spielberg’s monster hit cinemas), below are retrospective reviews for the original…
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)
It won’t win plaudits for storytelling complexity or depth, but George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is a stuntman’s fever-dream come to engine-roaring life. A…