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Wild Indian is the feature debut from Indigenous writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., who tells the story of two Indigenous men, Makwa (Michael Greyeyes) and Ted-O (Chaske Spencer), and how their lives...

A sequel that no one really asked for or expected, Zombieland: Double Tap arrives 10 years after its predecessor. The first instalment offered guts and gore and was far from taking itself seriously, with...

Don’t even talk to me about getting a mortgage. In this economy? May as well resign yourself to renting forever and raising your own Chernobyl of a nuclear family from a cupboard under the stairs. Vivarium...

The Hummingbird Project chronicles a quest of unfathomable proportions. Unfathomably boring proportions. “We’re building a four-inch pipe from Kansas to New Jersey!” just isn’t a catchy idea, no matter...

It’s difficult to heap yet more praise onto a film that’s already so widely acclaimed, but there’s something so special about The Squid and the Whale that you can’t help but keep coming back to it....

Early on in Café Society, Woody Allen’s 47th film, Jesse Eisenberg’s character meekly hires a prostitute. It’s his first such transaction, and he’s edgy. When she finally arrives, he’s gone off the...

Picture the scene: it’s March of this year. Warner Bros. executives are sitting in a conference room. The atmosphere is chilly, and it’s not the air-con. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film decades...

Now You See Me 2’s pledge is simple: to be Now You See Me all over again. It’s no mistake or misdirection - this is the same trick they did last time. That doesn’t spoil all of the fun though - the...

As with his previous film, Oslo, August 31st, Joachim Trier's finest directing moments in Louder Than Bombs come with voiceovers and memories, plus one excellent extended party sequence. For his English...

With a pair of perfectly calibrated performances from Segel and Eisenberg, End of the Tour both entertains and inspires introspection as it combines a cerebral thoughtfulness with rich character chemistry and...

The last instalment of Welcome to the ‘80s discussed Will Gluck’s Easy A, and the way it emulates and alludes to many of the classic ‘80s films considered in this series. This time around we take a look...

The Double sees Jesse Eisenberg thumping his two favourite masks - milksop and  scumbag - together as if they were a pair of cymbals. This doppelgänger nightmare is something we should want to digest...