midnight special

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (2016)

Midnight Special is the kind of film that drip-feeds information rather than dole out exposition. The film starts with two men acting shiftily in...

tangerine

TANGERINE (2015)

The greatest accomplishment of a film like Tangerine is making the audience empathise with the characters on screen, despite telling a story set in...

ZOOTROPOLIS (2016)

Even if you disregard the relatively consistent quality of its Pixar co-productions, Disney itself has been on a hot streak with animated features over...

the club

THE CLUB / EL CLUB (2015)

Recently crowned Best Picture at the Oscars, Spotlight detailed the uncovering of the shocking child sex scandal associated with the Catholic Church. While that...

the witch

THE WITCH (2015)

I wasn’t surprised to learn that The Witch’s writer-director, Robert Eggers, is from New England (his hometown is Lee, New Hampshire, about an hour from...

kung fu panda 3

KUNG FU PANDA 3 (2016)

Whether or not this is the farewell for this under-appreciated animated series is uncertain, but Kung Fu Panda 3 provides a conclusive finale that...

SUFFRAGETTE (2015)

Wonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American feminists who...