Bill & Ted Face the Music – Review Carmen Paddock September 17, 2020 Reviews Thirty-one years after their first Excellent Adventure (and twenty-nine since the critically mixed Bogus Journey), Bill and Ted are back – and contrary to predictions, Wyld Stallyns have not yet written the...
Toy Story 4 – Review David Brake June 24, 2019 Reviews Is Toy Story 4 anything more than one last wring of the franchise towel to drain those last few dollars out? Disney has decided today’s audiences require "new" versions of their 1990s classics such as The...
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – Review Joni Blyth May 16, 2019 Reviews No one thought John Wick would last this long. No one thought John Wick would last this long. Both franchise and protagonist appeared to us with what seemed like a short shelf-life. Nevertheless, the Baba Yaga...
Keanu Reeves: the Man, the Myth, the Legend Katy Moon May 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Sometime in the 1990s – thanks to some goofball early roles, a few wobbly performances and the occasional taciturn interview – critics and journalists seemed to latch onto the idea that Keanu Reeves was...
Destination Wedding – Review Josefine Algieri May 11, 2019 Reviews Romcoms have, over the past few years, slowly but steadily been making a deserved comeback – and what could be a better genre to reunite Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves on screen, more than 25 years after...
A Most Excellent Adventure: 30 Years of Bill and Ted Katy Moon February 15, 2019 Features, Love Letter San Dimas, 1988. Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winters) and Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves) don’t know it yet, but they’re destined for greatness. Their band Wyld Stallyns may be awful now, but by...
John Wick: Chapter 2 – Review Kambole Campbell February 15, 2017 Reviews Luckily for fans of gun-fu everywhere, Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski know how to keep a good thing going. John Wick: Chapter 2 shows that the budding franchise still has some surprises left in it. Like The...
The Bad Batch – Venice 2016 Review Cathy Brennan September 10, 2016 Reviews Ana Lily Amirpour falls victim to the sophomore slump with The Bad Batch. Like her strong debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, she creates a strange world for her characters to inhabit. However, a languid...
Spotlight: Key and Peele Joni Blyth July 14, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Chances are, you should have come across Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele by now. Even if you’ve never had a friend burst in to show you one of the fantastic sketches from their eponymous show, you may...
A Beginner’s Guide To Keanu Reeves Eddie Falvey April 10, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features Where does one begin with Keanu Reeves? Recently endowed with an (un)healthy dose of the Nic Cage effect – that is, being caught on the slippery slope of diminishing returns – Keanu is now one of the most...
John Wick – Review Phil W. Bayles April 8, 2015 Reviews It's fitting that the seemingly ageless Keanu Reeves should play John Wick. Like its leading man, the film feels unstuck in time; a forgotten '80s classic that would have starred the likes of Stallone or...
Fifty Three Degrees of Movie Trivia David Brake November 18, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia Who doesn't like movie trivia? As one of the founding pieces of this site, we're going back to our roots to enlighten you once more with some of the best trivia the world of cinema has to offer. Without...
CEL Mates: The Animatrix Conor Morgan July 15, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent The Animatrix is a 2003 animated portmanteau film set in the Matrix universe. Released directly to video to coincide with the theatrical release of The Matrix Reloaded, it is comprised of nine individual short...
A Love Letter To… Speed Olivia Luder June 19, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 6 Comments Pop quiz, hot shot: is Speed the best action film of the nineties? Hint: the answer is not ‘Shoot the hostage.’ This is a film so high-concept that its title is able to sum up the plot in one word:...
Shakespeare at 450: His Top Ten Adaptations on Film David Brake April 27, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 165 Comments Shakespeare. It's the most famous name in the English language, ringing proudly out across the British Isles. From his first works on stage around the 1590s to Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing in 2012,...