THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
[usr 5.0] While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to...
DEADPOOL (2016)
[usr 3.0] Let’s start with the good news: this version of Deadpool is a hundred times more entertaining than the first outing for the...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
[usr 3.0] Based both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride...
THE LOBSTER (2015)
[usr 4.0] It has been clear for some time that the leading lights of the ‘weird wave’ of Greek cinema would not be able...
HAIL, CAESAR! (2016)
[usr 3.5] The Coen brothers’ filmography is heavily populated with desks and the men who sit behind them. In the Coens’ universe, desks serve...
DAD’S ARMY (2016)
[usr 2.0] Among the fine tradition of classic British sitcoms, few stand as revered—or, indeed, as British—as Dad’s Army. Set during World War II,...
GOOSEBUMPS (2015)
[usr 4.0] If you grew up in the ’90s, there’s a good chance R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps books were one of your formative forays into...
THE WALK (2015)
[usr 4.0] The Walk is by no means perfect. In fact, it’s all too easy to pull apart, if you so desire. The dialogue...
MACBETH (2015)
[usr 2.0] Is it unfair to compare this latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to past film adaptations of the play? Each director must find...
ONE & TWO (2015)
[usr 3.0] The prospect of discovering a new filmmaking talent, plus the chance to check out two of my favourite emerging young Hollywood actors,...
SPOTLIGHT (2015)
[usr 4.0] Tom McCarthy’s sober, clear-eyed take on the Boston Catholic Church child abuse scandal, and how the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative team uncovered...
THE FINAL GIRLS (2015)
[usr 2.5] Forlorn teenager Max Cartwright (Taissa Farmiga) attends a special screening of Camp Bloodbath, on the third anniversary of her mother Nancy’s (Malin...