SOUTHPAW (2015)
[usr 2.0] There’s a theory espoused by former Grantland editor Bill Simmons that sometimes people are just ready for certain movies; that the success...
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...
INSIDE OUT (2015)
[usr 5] It’s hard to imagine there’ll be a film this year as inventive and audacious as Pixar’s newest offering Inside Out. That might...
CLUELESS (1995)
[usr 4.0] If you were a teenager in the 1990s, there’s a big possibility you still use lines from Clueless in your everyday life....
ANT-MAN (2015)
[usr 4.0] Ant-Man, the newest film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a little rougher around the edges than some of the studio’s recent...
THE VOICES (2014)
[usr 3.0] Thoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium...
KNOCK KNOCK (2015)
[usr 3.0] With Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out...
TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)
[usr 2.5] Fairly early into Terminator Genisys, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pops utters this line to Emilia Clarke’s Sarah Connor: “This is a meaningless gesture. To...
MINIONS (2015)
[usr 2.5] The question Minions needed to answer was whether the cute Despicable Me critters are compelling and amusing enough to carry their own film. It’s...
SLOW WEST (2015)
[usr 4.0] The Britop music scene’s produced some curious turn-ups in recent years. Brian Cox from D:Ream, now better known as a celebrity physicist;...
TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (1990)
[usr 2.0] 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...
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014)
[usr 3.0] 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...