Author Bertie Archer

Kong: Skull Island drops viewers straight into a world at once familiar and different to that of “creature from another feature” Godzilla. The pseudoscience remains, alongside a menagerie of fantastic...

Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I...

The sound of Silence is astonishing. Insects, waves, weather, chanting, groaning and, yes, prolonged silence - these elements combine into a sensory experience at once rich and austere. The clash of languages...

Breathe. This is the prequel you were looking for. From the very first moments it's clear that Rogue One stands distinctly alone in style and tone, yet blends almost seamlessly into the existing canon - quite...

https://vimeo.com/18612518 In this tight three minutes, director Ross Ching has shown us a fleeting fragment of a much larger story, leaving the viewer with burning questions as to what came before and...

Let's start with an inexplicable detail from True Memoirs of an International Assassin: the titular novel is published as an e-book but only ever shown printed out. That's the kind of sense and thoughtfulness...

It doesn't take a genius to know that The Accountant is not high-art cinema; instead director Gavin O'Connor has made a masterpiece of the modern action genre. Unmissable, enjoyable excellence from start to...

In going back to Jack, Tom Cruise doesn't just show that he's still got it; he's still getting better. Filled head-to-toe with charisma, balancing intensity and intellect with humanity and humour, Cruise...

Dan Brown is something of a miracle writer. His books, worldwide bestsellers one and all, are simultaneously light, page-turning romps and heavy art-history swamps. True to form, David Koepp has kept both of...

Under the Shadow comes from a dark place. Firmly in the shade of the Cultural Revolution and deep into the Iran-Iraq War, the spectre of war and threat of tragedy looms large over what is, in essence, a...

Aside from Daniel Radcliffe's superb central performance, Imperium's strong core comes from director Daniel Ragussis' depiction of malign normalcy. A seemingly average household is exposed as a neo-nazi...

An over repeated line in Cell states that the speaker’s phone is “out of juice”. What is a juiceless phone? A brick. Well, Cell is as clunky as a retro mobile telephone, but without any of the...

Who hasn't turned off a light and thought, if only for a split second, that they saw a silhouette out of the corner of their eye? It's an instantly relatable premise, but sadly Lights Out switches off for much...

Swallows and Amazons' free-spirited sense of preteen paradise is overwhelming, as if rose-tinted nostalgia of childhood adventures and better bygone days has been physically melded into the cameras' lenses....

Nerve is, in effect, Truth or Dare: The Movie without a shred of truth. It's hard to buy the concept that young people would risk life, limb and financial ruin for one night of fame... OK, maybe not, but Nerve...