Trailer: BATMAN v SUPERMAN – DAWN OF JUSTICE
What’s it about? Take a wild guess. The Caped Crusader has a score to settle with the Man of Steel, after the latter’s ruckus...
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...
Trailer: THE MARTIAN
What’s it about? Based on the best-selling novel by American author Andy Weir (which he self-published in 2011, before it was re-released in 2014),...
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...