Film Review

The version of The Laundromat people imagined as news of its production spread online is radically different to the one we've actually gotten. After all, when you hear Steven Soderbergh of Erin Brockovich and Traffic fame is doing a Panama…

Sci-fi is a genre one associates with lavish special effects - one which can conjure up depictions of everything from time travel to futuristic alien/robot wars to space exploration. Basically if you have the budget, the canvas is…

The character of John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has been a beloved icon within the action genre since 1982 with First Blood. The classic painted him as a broken man tormented by PTSD and thrust him headfirst into violent conflict after the…

Avengement is a terrible name; I don’t think it’s even a word. Maybe it was a placeholder on Jesse V. Johnson and Stu Small’s script or maybe it was designed as an algorithm cheater for when people searched for the recent home media release…

In the end credit bloopers, Paul Rudd is asked “What advice do you have to other young actors who want to hide their Jewishness?” and he laughs hysterically. It’s only after the film ends that the audience gets what it wants from Between…

The Souvenir. Pain And Glory. This has been some year for excellent, semi-autobiographical works. The best of the lot however, might just be Lulu Wang’s sophomore effort The Farewell, a perfectly-pitched family drama about tradition and the…

When we think of space-set sci-fi, images of the chestburster from Alien, HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey or Sandra Bullock hurdling through the great abyss in Gravity spring to mind. Yet, certain space movies forgo such spectacle. They use…

Every once in a while, there comes a delightful surprise of film which manages to exceed expectations wildly. Hustlers is one of those movies. Based on New York Magazine's 2015 article 'The Hustlers at Scores' by Jessica Pressler, our way…

You probably already know the work of Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman; the co writer/director team behind Extra Ordinary. You just might not realise it. Under their pseudonym D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design Yeah!) they've created…

When I first learned that Alexandre Aja, the man behind genre favourites such as Switchblade Romance and The Hills Have Eyes remake, was helming a disaster horror movie, the 18-year-old inside of me lost his mind a little and became…