THE MESSENGER (2015)
Labels 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...
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (2014)
“Gotta give the crowd what they want, baby,” a character says early on in Monsters: Dark Continent, as a group of gamblers crowd around...
AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)
Weird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times. It’s not...
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2015)
When you think of environmental activism, Greenpeace is likely the first name that pops into your head. Today the organisation is synonymous with campaigns...
NO ESCAPE (2015)
Try 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...
HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)
There’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...
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015)
Like The Fault in our Stars before it, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl grounds the upsetting story of a teenager with cancer...
PIXELS (2015)
Laziness is how we get films like Pixels. The desperately sad lack of commitment on display here is astounding, as Adam Sandler and cohorts...
VIDEODROME (1983)
David Cronenberg’s seminal 1983 body horror Videodrome begins with a shot of a TV screen and ends with its main character re-enacting what he’s...
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)
There’s no way to argue otherwise; the main reason a Fantastic Four reboot’s been made is so the rights can stay with 20th Century Fox. The situation...
IT FOLLOWS (2014)
It Follows opens with a shot of a quiet, average suburban street, with the seeming calm of the camera’s slow pan across the neighbourhood interrupted...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015)
There’s never enough at stake in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It whizzes along at a quip-a-minute, with stunning stunts from handsome Tom Cruise, and...