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...
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...
EX MACHINA (2015)
[usr 4.0] The helicopter blades whirling over greenery in the opening of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina are eerily, deliberately reminiscent of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park....
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)
[usr 4.5] 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...
STOKER (2013)
[usr 3.0] Park Chan-wook’s Stoker is a film with a curious DNA. Directed by the man who brought South Korean cinema to the masses with his...
FURIOUS 7 (2015)
[usr 4.0] The Fast & Furious franchise gets so much right that it’s easy to ignore the things that are less appealing about it. It is...
INHERENT VICE (2014)
[usr 5.0] I’m not sure exactly where to begin with Inherent Vice—I’ve seen it twice now, and I haven’t completely wrapped my head around it,...
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)
[usr 3.5] If the box-office supremacy of The Avengers can be partly attributed to the simple mathematics of four established superheroes appearing in the same film,...