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Rian Johnson is a man who loves breaking rules. He broke just about every rule in the book when he was given the reins to Star Wars, and some of the most unpleasant people on the internet are still giving him...

Even nearly 12 months after its initial UK release, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water has lost none of its magic. The film not only captured the hearts of critics, but also of cinemagoers worldwide,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3-XG2Z4Pg Talented siblings Jeff Nichols (director of Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving) and Ben Nichols (lead guitarist for the ‘country-punk rock’ band Lucero)...

Ray Bradbury’s iconoclastic 1953 novel has not been this relevant for a long time. Fahrenheit 451 was written as a defence of books and intellectualism against the growth of TV and other mindless...

This film was previously reviewed on 31/08/17 as part of Venice Film Festival. Anticipation for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water has been sky high, thanks to its prestigious cast and a beautiful...

Anticipation for Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water has been sky high, thanks to its prestigious cast and a beautiful trailer. Amazingly, it completely surpasses these expectations to conjure up a...

It’s fair to say that Superman’s outings on the big screen over the years have been to varying degrees of success. Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) were both, generally speaking, excellent works –...

1. Robert Downey Jr. to talk, grunt, squeak and squawk with the animals Robert Downey Jr. is already used to speaking to a black widow, a falcon, a black panther and an ant, man. Now he’s going to have...

As a fashion designer, it's unsurprising that Tom Ford is preoccupied with the idea of the pretty. Nocturnal Animals is an exercise in the disruption of beauty, right from its bizarre opening credits. The...

1. Jon Favreau just can’t wait to be king (of the box office)—will direct live-action Lion King The Jungle Book made $966 million worldwide—and that doesn’t even include that sweet, sweet action...

Even in a world where a reality TV star has a shot at entering the White House, the photograph of Elvis Presley shaking hands with Richard Nixon stands out as one of the weirder moments in American politics....

Jeff Nichols is by no means the first American filmmaker to utilise the strange, otherworldly beauty of the American interior as the backdrop for his brief but already impressive oeuvre. As a point of...

Freeheld’s first act combines irrelevant police cases with an awkward early-stage romance that develops into a cheesy, sun-splashed love story. The deferral of the main narrative leaves room to thoroughly...

Jeff Nichols is a great filmmaker. That Midnight Special comes close to greatness is undeniable - its first hour is a deliriously inventive, utterly arresting cosmic thriller that keeps its cards very close to...

Laborer Dennis (Garfield) has his house foreclosed; desperate and inhabiting a small apartment with his son and mother, he winds up working for the slimeball who evicted him (Shannon). Bahrani, one of the...