Author Phil W. Bayles

Every once in a while a film comes along that is so electrifying it feels like the director is holding your eyes open, Ludovico style, to make sure you don’t miss a frame. Sorry to Bother You, the feature...

There's a line in Venom about a "turd in the wind" that seems tailor-made for angry critics. But to use it in a review would give the screenwriters too much credit. It would be easy to blame all the...

Don’t be fooled by trailers - A Simple Favour is far more than a Gone Girl knock-off. Heavily marketed as coming from ‘the dark side of Paul Feig,’ in practice it feels like Feig has remade a François...

Few documentary makers have a flair for cinematic storytelling quite like Bart Layton. His blistering debut, The Imposter, feels like a thriller despite being mostly a collection of talking head interviews....

Why do we never talk about how great the villains in Pixar movies are? From Sid in Toy Story to Randall in Monsters, Inc., the cold and analytical autopilot in WALL-E to Antoine Ego in Ratatouille, Pixar's...

It seems like every other day we get an announcement of another actor that Quentin Tarantino has convinced to join his upcoming Manson-era epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The last time Tarantino assembled...

One of the most exciting parts about the build-up to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was the news that the legendary Jeff Goldblum would be reprising his role as chaotician/rock star/sex god Ian Malcolm. Our...

Just as the geneticists at Isla Nubar keep stitching their creations together to make bigger and (supposedly) better dinosaurs, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom can't help but feel like a greatest hits...

This weekend saw the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, an origin story which stars Alden Ehrenreich as the eponymous smuggler and answers some of the burning questions that Star Wars fans have asked for...

After 18 films of build up over a decade, and years of anticipation, Avengers: Infinity War has finally arrived - you can read our Bertie's excellent review right here. Thanos still demands our silence, but...

Ryan Francis Johnson's short film Writer's Workshop takes an ingenious comedic premise and cranks it up to the point of absurdity. Aspiring writer Jeremy (Grayson Low) tentatively shares a piece in a...

After wallowing in the shadows of Los Angeles for his excellent directorial debut Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy steps into the light (mostly) for his second film, Roman J. Israel, Esq. Truth be told, he seems to...

The Death Cure – the final chapter in the Maze Runner trilogy – finally limps into cinemas after a protracted three-year wait (brought on by an on-set accident involving leading man Dylan O’Brien). In...

The fact that All the Money in the World was released at all is impressive. When news first broke about the alleged sexual misconduct of Kevin Spacey – originally cast to play billionaire J. Paul Getty –...

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Two years ago, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released, we returned to the galaxy far, far away to find it just the way we left...