It’s crazy to think that it’s been a whole 15 years since the last Tomb Raider movie was released. It’s nice to see it back on the big screen as video-game nostalgia and entertaining cinematics are fused together in this heart-racing action-packed adventure. Previously played by Angelina Jolie, Lara Croft has taken on a more…
Marking the directorial debut of actor Taran Killam (Saturday Night Live) Killing Gunther sees a group of hapless assassins trying to kill the world’s deadliest hitman, Gunther, who manages to keep ahead of them every step of the way. Killing Gunther Review Taran Killam who wrote, directed and starred in the movie plays…
Five English football fans have a violent encounter with a group of Russian hooligans at the European Cup. Their fight leaves one man dead and a vengeful Russian with an axe to grind. Two years later, former SAS man Ed Leighton (Ben Freeman) and four of his best mates travel to the World Cup in…
There is magical sense of purity to this film; innocence and wonder. Call Me By Your Name is that film that rarely gets made, and it’s a wonder that it does. Every word, every frame, every movement is delicately crafted that creates a film that is remarkably touching and special. Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer…
Being a huge fan of Marlon Wayans throughout his career and even having the honour of interviewing him for Haunted House. I was keen to check out this Netflix stand-up original. At the ripe ol age of 45 Marlon still puts his heart, soul and his body into getting the most ludicrous reactions from any…
Shot in Fincher Brown Vision with lots of piss-yellows and varying shades of brown and black, the film is eye-candy to the extreme, with beautiful and evocative production design by Claude Paré, and a terrific sense of how to fully utilize the 2.35:1 frame by cinematographer David Lanzenberg, who also photographed the exceedingly stylish thriller…
For the last two years I have had the honour of being invited to the BAFTA awards down in London. This year however, there was a special surprise. We would actually be going inside the Royal Albert Hall to watch the ceremony for the first time instead of retreating to the exclusive Soho House members…
Generous of spirit, co-written with intelligence by original novelist Darryl Ponicsan and director Richard Linklater, who brings a wonderful sense of patience and compassion to the proceedings, last year’s tough-minded and heartfelt drama Last Flag Flying is a sad and reflective piece that’s bolstered by a trio of low-key terrific performances from Steve Carell, Laurence…
Coming off of his original and haunting debut film, Ex Machina, Alex Garland parlayed his newfound status and momentum into a visually rich and emotionally charged film headlined by the wonderful Natalie Portman. Annihilation is a film that aims high, shored up by an eclectic and visceral cast, but its plot is so lowkey that…
Let me start this off by saying I love game nights. Between a few rounds of Cards Against Humanity, Scrabble, and Parcheesi, there’s usually laughs aplenty. I’m also known for hosting a few murder mysteries each year. So when I came across the trailer for Game Night, I couldn’t resist checking out the latest action-comedy…
Black Panther represents the first superhero film of any sort to boast an almost exclusively black cast. A groundbreaking tale set predominately in Africa and a film that addresses key real-world issues such as colonialism, slavery and racism. Black Panther revolves around the African nation of Wakanda. A nation that to the outside world is…
Mark Pellington’s contemplative and emotionally rigorous film Nostalgia is not going to be an easy movie for many people to experience. Told in the aesthetic key of current-phase Terrence Malick (minus all of the wide-angle stedicaming) but feeling tethered to something more universal and tangible, this is a defiantly artistic piece of independent filmmaking, and…
Darkest Hour is a solid movie. It’s a piece that has been designed around the promise of an actor knocking it out of the park as Winston Churchill, and on that level, Gary Oldman’s performance is precisely as good as you’ve been led to believe, and it’s the sort of thing that is very attractive…
I still can’t believe this one-sheet was contemplated, discussed, designed, tweaked, approved, printed, and distributed. Someone had to have lost their job over this. And when compared to the film’s other one-sheet that I’ve used in this review you REALLY have to question the artistic motivation for creating this truly shitty-amazing one-sheet for the rather…
The third and final instalment of the Fifty Shades franchise see’s Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele tie the knot. The second the words ‘I do’ are spoken Christian Grey transforms into a cowering beta male for the films two-hour duration. The guy who ties up women for sexual pleasure is metaphorically whipped from start to…
Ben Layten (Thomas Middleditch) an out-of-work recent divorcee who despite his various attempts can’t even kill himself correctly. After another failed suicide Ben learns that he may have almost had a sister when he was younger when his parents were close to adoption before his mother became pregnant with him. This gives Ben a new…
