chris Banks

chris Banks 30 September 2016

A marginalised and beleaguered teen, with a secret and a burden, journeys to a school for similarly-jilted children, each bearing...

chris Banks 26 September 2016

If you look up “Detroit ghost town” on Google images, or just check out an aerial view of the city...

chris Banks 9 September 2016

American philosopher Robert pippin wrote that the Western, perhaps the carte de visite of American cinema, reflects the founding of...

chris Banks 9 September 2016

Hopes seem to get higher and higher with every subsequent Laika release to the point that you fear eventually the...

chris Banks 9 September 2016

The posters for Monty Python’s Holy Grail jokingly suggested that, such was the inadequate scale, ambition and quality of the...

chris Banks 2 September 2016

Previous Seth Rogen offering Paul, with which Sausage Party shares some linguistic and thematic traits, opined that a well-timed swearword...

chris Banks 26 August 2016

The US Presidential Elections are winging their way towards us at fair rate of knots. But before the world gathers...

chris Banks 25 August 2016

Todd Phillips seemed to get himself in a bit of a muddle with his previous movie, the third and final...

chris Banks 9 August 2016

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and that’s pretty much all there is to it. Jake Szymanski’s moribund comedy aims...

chris Banks 5 August 2016

The DC Extended Universe, and Warner Bros’ attempt to recreate the kind of magic being dished out down the road...

chris Banks 22 July 2016

Convention dictates that at the very least I attempt to begin a review with a recap of the plot. How...

chris Banks 20 July 2016

At first glance, the prospect of a Steven Spielberg/Mark Rylance/Roald Dahl combination seems too good to miss: one of the...

chris Banks 15 July 2016

That classic Ice Age formula of: bundle a group of animals together and make them walk over there, remains pretty...

chris Banks 13 June 2016

So here it is, then. After a decade in development hell, a grass-roots campaign by fans, some leaked test footage...