X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (2016)
byBefore the mayhem truly begins in X-Men: Apocalypse, a group of mutants leave a cinema showing Return of the Jedi and Sophie Turner’s Jean…
Film Review
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950)
byIn a Lonely Place is a film about Hollywood. But, more precisely, it’s a film about Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart), a screenwriter whom we’re…
EASY RIDER (1969)
byThere have been many American movies specifically concerned with the country itself. Few are as biting, inventive, and also endlessly relevant as Easy Rider….
GREEN ROOM (2015)
byGreen Room doesn’t mess around. Clocking in at a lean 94-minutes, this riveting and claustrophobic thriller doesn’t waste time and shows that writer-director Jeremy…
SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)
byMovies of the 1980s had a fascination with robots, almost to the point of obsession. It was the decade that brought us The Terminator,…
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS (2016)
byRicky Gervais has been walking his own path since Life’s Too Short flopped in 2011 (his last collaboration with Stephen Merchant), but his first…
THE ZERO BOYS (1986)
byAt its heart Arrow Films’ latest release, The Zero Boys, is just another straight-to-video slasher movie; of the type that dominated the 1980s home…
JANE GOT A GUN (2016)
byThe Western is a genre that resolutely refuses to ride off into the sunset. Despite an increasing distance from the era—when America’s west was…
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)
byMarvel films have gone big before. They’ve launched an alien invasion onto New York for The Avengers, seen half of London uprooted in Thor:…
HUSH (2016)
byA fleeting glance of Hush while browsing Netflix and you’d be forgiven for having a reflexive urge to keep scrolling. ‘A young woman living…
THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
byIt’s easy to condemn Disney for adapting its animations into live-action, as it seems like a creatively bankrupt endeavour, but the success of 2015’s…
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1990)
byWhat stops me joining the cult of Re-Animator is how reductive the franchise is. Stuart Gordon’s original 1985 movie is a schlocky update of…