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THE INFILTRATOR (2016)
A U.S Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar…
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MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (2016)
A young boy follows clues that lead him back through time, to a home for unusually gifted children, unaware of the danger he’s placed himself in.
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.8 – ‘Loose Lips’
As we head to the season finale, “Loose Lips” re-arranges the furniture on The Man in the High Castle, and although it’s another slow-paced episode that could’ve done with some vigour, its concluding revelations are worth the journey. Over in the alternate reality, Nobusuke Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) has slowly realised that he’s the problem causing…
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John Hurt: Imagination’s Victim
I cannot say enough good things about John Hurt. What he did is just glorious. His character is so fantastic. It’s a human-being thing; your heart just goes out to him for what he went through. That’s director David Lynch reflecting on The Elephant Man (1980) for Time Out magazine in 2008, and it’s a…
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6 to See in February 2017
What new movies and television shows are most deserving of your attention this month? Our editor, Dan Owen, selects his top six choices for UK audiences…
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10 Sundance Favourites for 2017
From Reservoir Dogs to Little Miss Sunshine, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced us to some of the best movies ever made, so here are 10 films from this year’s Sundance that everyone’s going to be talking about in 2017… 1. Mudbound Dee Rees (Pariah, Bessie) brought to Sundance a devastating story about two families — one…
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LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS – Season One
A Series of Unfortunate Events occupies an interesting position as a story that’s simultaneously charming and dark. There are very few other tales that boast this balance of traits, so the specificity of its tone is absolutely key. It’s the second time around that this narrative’s been adapted from the original novels by Lemony Snicket…
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RAISING CAIN (1992)
The wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware her husband suffers from multiple personality disorder…
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THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, 2.6 & 2.7 – ‘Kintsugi’ & ‘Land O’Smiles’
“Kintsugi” With episode 6 we enter the post-Frank Spotnitz version of The Man in the High Castle, where the showrunner baton has been handed temporarily to, among others, executive producers David Zucker and Isa Dick Hackett. What’s noticeable in this episode is how the series has taken on aspects of melodrama and, for want of…
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T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017)
Renton returns to Scotland after two decades living in Amsterdam, to be reacquainted with friends and enemies from his youth…
