Film Review

Anon – written and directed by Andrew Niccol (director of Gattaca and Simone, writer of The Truman Show) – couldn’t be released at a better time. Set in a near future where privacy no longer exists, the sci-fi has been given an added dose…

John Woo’s back baby! The director of Face/Off, The Killer and Hard Boiled returns to Asian action cinema after a lengthy foray into Chinese historical epics. Everything people love about the Woo of the 1980s and 1990s is present in…

In recent years, we’ve seen more British filmmakers journeying across the pond to point their incisive camera lenses at the American experience. Bringing their distinctly homegrown approach offers an interesting outsider’s perspective to a…

The premise of I Feel Pretty has raised many an eyebrow since the first publicity materials found their way online. The elevator pitch is something like this; 'an insecure, overweight woman, after being dinged on the head, wakes up…

Avengers: Infinity War will break the box-office with the strength of Thor’s hammer this weekend. It’s deserved as it’s a surprisingly bold and brave entry in the MCU. Even so, I feel obligated to make the case for Psychokinesis – a South…

Thirty years before Vincent Price made The Masque of the Red Death and over eighty years before Jennifer Kent made The Babadook, James Whale brought the Gothic mode of cinema out of a stuffy, rat-infested cellar and onto theatre screens.…

Infinity War broke me. I’m too attached. The latest Marvel movie to hit the big screen, Infinity War, is the first of a two-parter that has been billed as the finale of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as we know it. Not an outright…

The holy love child of the Coen brothers and Sergio Leone, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is the type of fresh inventive genre take that winds up an art-house classic. With the sweltering-hot countryside of modern day Indonesia standing…

As Clooney's Catch 22 adaptation moves forward and his film Suburbicon is released on DVD, Lee Wright looks back at the actor's underappreciated 2008 thriller The American. Spoilers ahead. Twenty-years after Martin Booth’s A Very Private…

You may have noticed that in recent years, films based on video games have become a genre in themselves and are often holiday blockbusters. Franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, and Resident Evil are just a few of the…