Reviews

Miljeong follows a trend of Chinese and South Korean period films that chart those countries' victimisation by the Japanese in the first half of the 20th century. It’s a decent genre flick that should...

I Called Him Morgan is more of a ‘true tragedy’ than a ‘true crime’ documentary. Director Kasper Collin’s second documentary feature tells the story of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was killed...

Kim Ki-duk is known for being as profane as he is prolific; one of his more notable films is the Oedipal nightmare Moebius. With Geumul he retains some of the absurdity but grounds it with a human story...

No-one ever sets out to make a bad film. In a world peppered with pessimism, there's a hope that whenever there is new cinematic project , there is good intention at its heart. Yet, as we clearly know, the...

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...

Violence Level: 10. Profanity Level: 10. Stress Level: 100 – it appears that just about everything has been cranked up a notch for the third instalment of the Purge trilogy. And that’s not necessarily a...

Typical. You wait years for a music mockumentary to be released and two come out at once. Handily, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is the better one - and it’s not even close. Conner4real is the...

From the Frat House to the frontline, via Vegas and some misjudged sequels, Todd Phillips has popped a handful of painkillers and the hangover’s clearing. With War Dogs, his first foray into true - well,...

400 Days uses a mission-simulation premise as part of an attempt to get away with making a space movie with astonishingly low production value. The vaguely named “ship” and paraphernalia aboard doesn’t...

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....

By its very nature Nine Lives has no right to be any good. It's a shameless corporate product that exploits the popularity of cat videos to rake in summer holiday money, while at the same time keeping costs...

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...

The best thing about Pete's Dragon is undoubtedly that it preserves the nostalgic element for the adults, whilst maintaining the sense of adventure that belongs in a children’s film. Sitting down to watch...

If you’ve yet to acquaint yourself with one of cinema’s greatest actresses and icons, Ingrid Bergman, then this is the film for you, and there’s enough in it to keep Bergman aficionados happy too. Taking...