THE ASSASSIN (2015)
The Assassin is noted Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first step into the realm of wuxia and martial arts; although, for the most part, the end-product...
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (2016)
Before 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...
GREEN ROOM (2015)
Green 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...
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS (2016)
Ricky Gervais has been walking his own path since Life’s Too Short flopped in 2011 (his last collaboration with Stephen Merchant), but his first...
JANE GOT A GUN (2016)
The 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)
Marvel 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)
A 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)
It’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...
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...
THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (2016)
Snow White and the Huntsman was the kind of film that was perfectly enjoyable in the moment, but you forgot about almost as soon...
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...
BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (2016)
There was understandable cynicism when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was announced—born of suspicion it was a cynical way to rekindle interest in a...