Film Review – Captain America: Civil War (2016)
There was a time when it was acceptable for any superhero movie to focus on just the one hero. In...
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Film Review – Despite The Falling Snow (2016)
Cold war espionage thriller meets Mills 'N' Boon (or Mills 'N' Boonsky) romance as Shamim Sarif brings her own novel...
Film Review – Criminal (2016)
Are Hollywood desperately seeking a new mature actor with a 'particular set of skills' now that Liam Neeson called time...
Film Review – The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
Set in New England during the middle of the Puritan migration The VVitch charts one family's plunge into a maelstrom of...
Film Review – Creed (2016)
The past 5 or so years the money men of Hollywood have exploited the good nature of cinephiles from every...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love JJ Abrams (Review with SPOILERS)
In October 2012, Disney announced that they had acquired Lucasfilm for a whopping $4 billion, and ever since that day,...
Film Review – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Following Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, it was apparent that we would soon be inundated with new Star Wars...
Film Review – Grandma (2015)
Writer-director Paul Weitz's immediately loveable dramedy, Grandma, is a joyous romp that serves as a shining testament to the outstanding...
Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (2015)
After a pretty stellar second instalment, The Hunger Games series missed a gear with Mockingjay Part 1, a lethargic affair...
Film Review – Fantastic Four (2015)
It wouldn’t be unfair to say that 20th Century Fox has made something of a hash of the Fantastic Four...
Film Review – Fairytale: Story Of The Seven Dwarves (2015)
It would be nice to able to say something good about Fairytale: Story of the Seven Dwarves (2014) also known...
Film Review – Big Hero 6 (2015)
Resolutely refusing to change its name, riskily provoking cries of displeasure from simpletons who “haven’t seen the first five films”,...
Film Review – The Babadook (2013)
Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut, The Babadook, is an unnervingly taut and psychologically tense exploration of post-traumatic distress and maternal despair....
Film Review – Grace Of Monaco (2014)
As someone who grew up adoring the over-the-top theatrics of Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis' later works and...