The Old Guard – Review Fatima Sheriff July 11, 2020 Reviews In a roulette of life and death, we meet Andy, an immortal soldier spinning without purpose through her existence. Stalking through the streets of Morocco, she joins Booker, Joe and Nicky, her counterparts in...
Bombshell – Review Tori Brazier January 17, 2020 Reviews “Blood coming out of her… wherever” was, regrettably, an instantly recognisable moment from Trump’s presidential campaign. Megyn Kelly, the Fox anchor he was describing, takes centre stage in...
Long Shot – Review Jack Blackwell April 19, 2019 Reviews It’d be understandable to be dubious about the ‘Charlize Theron falls for Seth Rogen’ premise of Long Shot. How many more elegant woman with schlubby dude romances do we need? Yet, Long Shot is so warm,...
How Young Adult Shook Up the Mainstream Rachel Brook May 2, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia This Friday will deliver Tully, a drama about motherhood from the stunning team of director Jason Reitman, writer Diablo Cody and actress Charlize Theron. Reitman and Cody, of course, first worked together on...
Tully – Review Tom Bond April 29, 2018 Reviews How many positive depictions of motherhood in cinema can you think of? Whether it’s with body horror or performance anxiety, filmmakers over the years have made it very clear that being a mother is no bed of...
Gringo – Review Naomi Soanes March 11, 2018 Reviews Sold as a dark action-comedy, and boasting a surprisingly A-list cast, Gringo has all the makings of a successful crime drama right from the outset. The film follows Harold (Oyelowo), a down-on-his-luck...
Atomic Blonde – Review Kambole Campbell August 12, 2017 Reviews Charlize Theron’s latest action vehicle, Atomic Blonde, oversteers a little in its attempt to escape the limiting description of being “John Wick, but starring Charlize Theron”. Former stuntman and...
Fast and Furious 8 – Review Kambole Campbell April 15, 2017 Reviews The first in years not to star the late Paul Walker, Fast and Furious 8 continues the franchise’s trend of one-upping itself when it comes to implausible vehicular action – along with some pretty solid...
Scene Stealers: Jason Statham in Fast & Furious 7 Joni Blyth April 12, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers It's tough to claim one cast member of Fast & Furious 7 as the definitive scene-stealer. The whole franchise is really just a scenery-chewing contest, a metatextual battle of bravado, and the competition...
Your Week In Film: Millennium, Matthew Vaughn and The Matrix: Rebooted Stephen O'Nion March 17, 2017 News 1. And you thought awards season was over... In this week’s edition of Kids Say The Downright-Unbelievableist Things, the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards winners were announced on Saturday night—well...
Your Week In Film: Simba, Solo, Scorsese and Sleeper Cells Stephen O'Nion February 24, 2017 News 1. Han Solo No Mo Principal photography has started on the Han Solo spin-off movie. To celebrate, here’s a lovely photo of the cast (and directors Christopher Lord and Phil Miller) in non-appropriate...
Kubo and the Two Strings – Review Calum Baker September 10, 2016 Reviews As always, Laika Entertainment (Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls) have released one of the most beautifully and intricately designed films of the year, this time offering a mythical quest narrative in a...
The Last Face – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook May 20, 2016 Reviews A promising cast - and presumably some noble intentions - are completely squandered by Sean Penn is his atrociously mishandled, inadvertently hilarious and often offensive The Last Face. When a script is...
Your Week In Film: Star Wars, Starman, Starlize Theron and More Stephen O'Nion April 8, 2016 News 1. Mayhem at the Box Office Say what you will about Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice - tell us that it's a misunderstood masterpiece, a bloated mess, or something in between - but there is no...
The Huntsman: Winter’s War – Review Rachel Brook April 7, 2016 Reviews This belated follow up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman is confusingly both prequel and sequel, with Snow White’s absence awkwardly conspicuous. It threatens to be bloated, patronising, and...