Reviews

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ title screams B-movie, and this aesthetic is adopted with tongue firmly pressed through decaying cheek. Period zombie is a bold proposition, laden with potential for...

Zoolander 2 boasts a plot far sillier than its predecessor – no mean feat, but very much a good thing – and is far more interested in drama and action. These latter elements are less successful, as...

That Deadpool is the x-rated X-Men movie is its greatest draw and biggest flaw. Lured to the screen by humour and violence at unseen levels, viewers find the same old story but with new spandexed players and...

It’s a rare beast of a film that can provoke genuine gut laughs alongside moments of true anguish, but Rams achieves both, with undeniably greater emphasis on the latter. The film is neither comedy nor...

At last - Britain has produced a true geri-action film. Albeit more geri and less action, Dad’s Army takes on Jerry with a troupe of the ablest British national treasures available. The new - and...

Goosebumps generally keeps its head above the waters of churned-out children’s-book-adaptation mediocrity, embracing the fun of iconic monsters wreaking havoc on small-town America. The script teeters on the...

Trumbo, despite its blacklist subject matter, keeps things light and irreverent with a wry screenplay, emphasising the absurdity of America’s Communist paranoia post-World War Two. Bryan Cranston has a...

This forensic account of the invasion and defence of a U.S. outpost in Libya is recorded with frenetic energy. Krasinski and Schreiber lead the charge, their comedic talent pointing out the absurdities of the...

Dirty Grandpa had potential to be a good gross-out comedy, but it's mostly just gross. All filmmaking effort has gone into shocking punchlines, but the intended humour requires a relatable setup which is...

Michael Caine's best work in years and a strong supporting cast isn't quite enough to lift the evocative, elegant yet slight Youth beyond the (admittedly absorbing) curio it is. If nothing else, the...

Absorbing and understated, Spotlight handles its complex subject matter with class, restraint and, vitally, balance. A cast on their A-game add depth and humanity to their intriguing characters - who are...

It's not often that a documentary crew goes out to shoot one film but tragic events and political circumstance force them to adapt and create a different film altogether. Sherpa is one such film and is all...

Though boldly stylised with, for instance, a winking Margot Robbie cameo, The Big Short fails to deliver a consistent moral standpoint, and ironically falls into the kind of cheap hypocrisy of some of its...

Welcome to Clooney/Heslov’s Bolivian campaign, The Ides of March-ing Powder if you will. As a good humoured drama, with the laughs peaking at a choice use of Sandra’s buttocks, this is light yet...

The Assassin is undeniably one of the most beautiful-looking films to come out all year - however fans of interesting characters, cinematic thrills and coherent narratives should look elsewhere. A...