HOME ALONE • HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1990/92)
byTo celebrate Christmas Day tomorrow, below are two retrospective reviews of the beloved Home Alone films from the early-1990s, directed by Chris Columbus, written by John…
Film Review
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
byThere’s a moment halfway through Star Wars: The Force Awakens when I realised I was completely on board with the movie. It’s the wordless…
LEGEND (1985)
byWhile Ridley Scott’s long, eclectic filmography has its ups and downs, fans and non-fans alike generally agree that he’s never quite reached the heights…
HEAT (1995)
byMichael Mann’s Heat is essentially a ‘cops and robbers’ story. But, of course, it’s also a hell of a lot more than that. Unlike…
TRAINWRECK (2015)
byIt’s both a success and failure that the funniest thing about Judd Apatow’s latest film is basketball star LeBron James. I’ve never seen him…
KRAMPUS (2015)
byIt’s impossible to talk about Christmas horror movies without referencing Gremlins, and Krampus knows that. Boasting a similar family-fight-festive-critters premise to Joe Dante’s 1984…
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
byBridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to balance the…
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015)
byPixar’s second film of 2015 couldn’t be more different from its first. Whereas Inside Out was a complex, grown-up fantasy very much from the studio…
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 (2015)
byMockingjay simply isn’t a very long book. It’s worth acknowledging that when pondering why it was a misguided decision to split the final Hunger Games…
STEVE JOBS (2015)
byBiopics tend to follow a painfully familiar template. Frequently, out of an eagerness to not miss a single detail, films based on real events…
SPY (2015)
byWhen she was a kid, Susan Cooper’s (Melissa McCarthy) mother used to leave a note in her lunchbox each day that read: “Give up…
BRAZIL (1985)
byBureaucracy on film is a subject that, for obvious reasons, has always been best approached by filmmakers working under authoritarian governments, specifically in Eastern…