Tagged Samuel L. Jackson

With Jigsaw, the Saw series had a villain who was as creative as he was driven by a twisted sense of morality. He was a character able to shock with both violence (needle pit!) and dramatic flair (the corpse...

Brie Larson’s Unicorn Store seems to take place in a neighbouring universe to that of Boots Riley’s celebrated Sorry to Bother You. Though it has less of an anarchic agenda, Unicorn Store combines surreal...

Captain Marvel is an origin story that’s been a long time coming: the first Marvel female superhero to get her own movie, since the franchise kicked off 11 years ago with Iron Man. This feels like a...

The third instalment in a surprise hero trilogy revealed in 2017’s Split, Glass is a very messy (but very fun) twist on the superhero movie that brings all of M. Night’s hard work since 2000’s...

In the 14 years since the original Incredibles, the superhero genre has changed almost immeasurably. While, for the most part, the sequel avoids the new traditions and tropes that have sprung up, the...

For many of us, it feels as though Samuel L. Jackson has never really been off the screen; he was simply born there, and we’ve been enjoying him ever since. Trawling through his entries on One Room With A...

Anton Chekhov is reputed to have said "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." The Russian playwright was clearly far from the minds of the team behind The Hitman's...

Doug Liman doesn’t release that many films, so you would hope that each new release would be a beautifully polished diamond of the highest quality. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always appear to be the case....

"White is a metaphor for power". From its opening credits to the close, viewers of I Am Not Your Negro would be forgiven for feeling like being at the end of an LAPD police baton; mercilessly and repeatedly...

Kong: Skull Island drops viewers straight into a world at once familiar and different to that of “creature from another feature” Godzilla. The pseudoscience remains, alongside a menagerie of fantastic...

“This is an emergency!” Spike Lee proclaims at the outset of his latest feature. There is an anger coursing through Chi-Raq that hasn’t been felt in the director’s work for some time; as passionate as...

The name Tim Burton does not carry the same glow it once had. Brand Burton is what Hollywood wants. The sanitised "oddness" is desired, the one that allows a studio's big-budget flick to stand out in the...

An over repeated line in Cell states that the speaker’s phone is “out of juice”. What is a juiceless phone? A brick. Well, Cell is as clunky as a retro mobile telephone, but without any of the...

It’s more than a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs first created Tarzan, and in that time he’s been the subject of more than 200 films. It’s not hard to see the romantic appeal the character has held...

Ever the alchemist, Quentin Tarantino remains obsessed with transfiguring a mélange of homages into filmic gold. But the director’s eighth yarn seemingly shares most of its genetics with an Agatha...