The Kindness of Strangers – Berlinale 2019 Review Carmen Paddock February 7, 2019 Reviews As befitting its title, the characters with which Lone Scherfig populates The Kindness of Strangers prove the shining emotional heart of the drama. Getting them all together takes some contrivance, not to...
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Review Phil W. Bayles January 30, 2019 Reviews With the How to Train Your Dragon movies, the talented folk at DreamWorks Animation have proven themselves capable of rivalling even the mighty Pixar. Now The Hidden World is here to bring the trilogy to a...
Ice Guardians – Raindance 2016 Review Joni Blyth September 27, 2016 Reviews Ice Guardians has its work cut out for itself - it’s a tough sell to argue that the enforcer role in hockey is necessary and ethical, particularly after you’ve shown off a (hopefully atypical) training...
How To Train Your Dragon 2 – Review Christopher Preston July 3, 2014 Reviews Dragons really are the myth du jour. Daenerys Targaryen’s beastly brood continues to incinerate all of HBO’s competition, while Smaug, Tolkien’s monstrous kleptomaniac, is looking to drag another $1bn of...
RoboCop (2014) – Review Christopher Preston February 10, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments Lay down your pitchforks. Extinguish your torches. José Padilha’s RoboCop reboot is most definitely not the disaster we expected (and perhaps even hoped for). A philosophical twist on the original story...