Movie Reviews

After an alcoholic nervous breakdown at work, middle aged, mild-mannered accountant Duval (François Cluzet) finds himself unemployed and unemployable. Two years later, he’s living an almost monastic...

A visionary director and true artist of the form, things have been a bit quiet on the cinematic front from David Lynch for the last decade or so. Sure, he's been banging the drum for the joys and benefits...

It’s become almost a sport to hate Terrence Malick, to mock him, to dismiss him as a parody of his own reclusive, enigmatic image, his films nothing more than pretentious, philosophical wool-gathering. For...

Following his cameo with the Avengers in Civil War, a young Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returns home under the supervision of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). Struggling to adapt to a normal routine, Peter is...

Baby (Ansel Elgort) decides to leave his life of crime behind when he meets the love of his life, Debora (Lily James). However, being the best in the business causes problems for Baby when his crime lord boss,...

By Lillie Almond All Eyez on Me, a biopic about Tupac Shakur, follows his rise to fame, his highs and lows, his time with Death Row Records, and some intimate facets of his love life. By taking you on so...

"Hoka hey!" It's a commonly held misconception popularised by Buffalo Bill and his travelling show, by dime novels and B-movies, by the organic mythology of the Old West, that this Sioux saying that Crazy...

“I have less and less respect for them …I think they don’t even do what they do very well anymore.” – Maggie Renzi, The Story of Film This quote truly encapsulates the hard truth that the corpse...

Once the Princess of the Amazons, Diana (Gal Gadot) looks back on her past as an unstoppable warrior. However, when a warplane carrying an American spy (Chris Pine) crash lands on her hidden island, she learns...

Solitary but content, middle-aged local shepherd Anselmo (Miguel Martin) lives alone in a shack just outside of town with his dog Pillo. It’s a tough but rewarding existence - Anselmo spending long days...

Still mourning the mysterious drowning/possible suicide of her mother, teenage cyber-goth Lucidia (Alexa Davies) mooches around Aldershot with her cyber-goth friends doing cyber-goth things, which seem to...

After the sudden and suspicious death of her brother Harry, young trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns to the Somerset family cattle farm and the man she thought she’d escaped years ago; her...

There’s a great film to be made about the life of Gertrude Bell. Born in 1868 to a wealthy family able to fund her education and adventures, at 17, Bell read history at Oxford (one of the few subjects...

In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic America, former marine, Gabriel Drummer (a beefed-up Shia LaBeouf), still traumatised by his experiences serving in Afghanistan, searches for his missing wife (Kate Mara) and...

After a massacre at an isolated farmhouse, a disparate group of 80's stereotypes (the reluctant hero cop with "issues", his ex-wife, an arsey student nurse, a pregnant girl and her protective grandfather, the...

After putting her in foster care as a child, successful artist and recovered drug addict Jess (Katee Sackhoff) is desperate to build some bridges with her now full-grown, stroppy teenage daughter Chloe (Lucy...

James Gray is a genius. He must be. Everyone says so. Since sloping onto the arthouse scene in 1995 with the comically melancholy Russian Jewish shoegazing hitman drama Little Odessa and earning a Silver Bear...

SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW “Loneliness can do strange things to the mind.” Few films leave me breathless. Shocked. Speechless. Unsettled. Disturbed. Like I’ve been filled top-to-toe with...

When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his girlfriend's parents for the first time, he is very quickly made aware of a large elephant in the room. As an African American, he is made to feel increasingly...

More of an equal than a prequel or sequel, the events it depicts occurring simultaneously, Sang-ho Yeon's gritty animation Seoul Station charts at ground-level the runaway brushfire of the zombie apocalypse...

Recovering from a broken heart and a nervous breakdown, sexy lovelorn witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) relocates to a small town in Northern California intent on starting a new life up among the Redwoods...