SICARIO (2015)
byDo you like your meticulously-paced and superbly-shot action movies with a side order of bleak nihilism? You’re in luck: Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario may well be…
Film Review
A collection of articles concerning film review or retrospectives.
THE MARTIAN (2015)
byIf you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of space, surely you…
BROOKLYN (2015)
byBrooklyn is a period drama adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name that follows Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish woman who…
EVEREST (2015)
byWhen a film’s based on a true story, it often means it’s telling such an incredible story that it’s hard to believe it’s actually true;…
RICKI AND THE FLASH (2015)
byI intended to begin this review by commenting on how infrequently Jonathan Demme’s in the director’s chair these days, but a quick look at his…
THE MESSENGER (2015)
byLabels can be a tricky thing for a film to come lumbered with. Genre is an ever-flexible thing and films don’t always fall unequivocally into one…
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (2014)
by“Gotta give the crowd what they want, baby,” a character says early on in Monsters: Dark Continent, as a group of gamblers crowd around an…
AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)
byWeird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times. It’s not its…
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2015)
byWhen you think of environmental activism, Greenpeace is likely the first name that pops into your head. Today the organisation is synonymous with campaigns like…
NO ESCAPE (2015)
byTry not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there are, of course,…
HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)
byThere’s no real reason why films based on video games shouldn’t work. However, there can also be no denying that the vast majority of such attempts…
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015)
byLike The Fault in our Stars before it, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl grounds the upsetting story of a teenager with cancer in…