SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS (2016)
[usr 2.0] Ricky Gervais has been walking his own path since Life’s Too Short flopped in 2011 (his last collaboration with Stephen Merchant), but...
THE ZERO BOYS (1986)
[usr 2.5] At its heart Arrow Films’ latest release, The Zero Boys, is just another straight-to-video slasher movie; of the type that dominated the...
JANE GOT A GUN (2016)
[usr 3.0] The Western is a genre that resolutely refuses to ride off into the sunset. Despite an increasing distance from the era—when America’s...
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)
[usr 4.5] Marvel films have gone big before. They’ve launched an alien invasion onto New York for The Avengers, seen half of London uprooted...
HUSH (2016)
[usr 3.0] A fleeting glance of Hush while browsing Netflix and you’d be forgiven for having a reflexive urge to keep scrolling. ‘A young...
THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
[usr 4.5] It’s easy to condemn Disney for adapting its animations into live-action, as it seems like a creatively bankrupt endeavour, but the success...
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1990)
[usr 2.5] What stops me joining the cult of Re-Animator is how reductive the franchise is. Stuart Gordon’s original 1985 movie is a schlocky...
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (2016)
[usr 4.0] Midnight Special is the kind of film that drip-feeds information rather than dole out exposition. The film starts with two men acting...
THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (2016)
[usr 3.5] Snow White and the Huntsman was the kind of film that was perfectly enjoyable in the moment, but you forgot about almost...
THE SOUND BARRIER (1952)
[usr 4.0] Although The Sound Barrier manages to excitedly capture the thrill and majesty of flying a plane above the clouds at high speed,...
TANGERINE (2015)
[usr 3.5] The greatest accomplishment of a film like Tangerine is making the audience empathise with the characters on screen, despite telling a story...
DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS (1971) • DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT (1972)
[usr 4.0] Although both Death Walks on High Heels (1971) and Death Walks at Midnight (1972) fall under the heading of giallo, they differ...