NO ESCAPE (2015)
Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there are, of...
HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)
There’s no real reason why films based on video games shouldn’t work. However, there can also be no denying that the vast majority of...
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015)
Like The Fault in our Stars before it, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl grounds the upsetting story of a teenager with cancer...
PIXELS (2015)
Laziness is how we get films like Pixels. The desperately sad lack of commitment on display here is astounding, as Adam Sandler and cohorts...
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)
There’s no way to argue otherwise; the main reason a Fantastic Four reboot’s been made is so the rights can stay with 20th Century Fox. The situation...
IT FOLLOWS (2014)
It Follows opens with a shot of a quiet, average suburban street, with the seeming calm of the camera’s slow pan across the neighbourhood interrupted...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015)
There’s never enough at stake in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It whizzes along at a quip-a-minute, with stunning stunts from handsome Tom Cruise, and...
SOUTHPAW (2015)
There’s a theory espoused by former Grantland editor Bill Simmons that sometimes people are just ready for certain movies; that the success of some...
INSIDE OUT (2015)
It’s hard to imagine there’ll be a film this year as inventive and audacious as Pixar’s newest offering Inside Out. That might seem like...
ANT-MAN (2015)
Ant-Man, the newest film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a little rougher around the edges than some of the studio’s recent offerings, but...
THE VOICES (2014)
Thoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium episode “The...
KNOCK KNOCK (2015)
With Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out of porn....