draw the curtains.

Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Steve Carrell predict the (upcoming) 2008 financial crash and, for reasons ranging from…

DiCaprio gets really sad and cold.

A film of two parts; a moving and emotional first half stifled by a meandering and predictable second.

Though its title is named after its central protagonist, ‘Joy’ is a fairly inaccurate reflection of the film’s tone. For most of its…

I don’t think it has ever been so difficult to separate my excitement over a film from a critical opinion. I’m not even the biggest Star…

Thor Vs The Whale.

It can’t have been easy expressing one’s sexual identity in 1950s America, particularly if that identity involves being a woman attracted…

Sneaking through abandoned schools, pistol at the ready. Blasting through a military compound. Sweet-talking around conflict. Fighting a…

Steven Spielberg returns to the world of dramatic, true-story melodrama with Bridge of Spies, and thankfully it’s much better than the dull…

When Marvel announced that they were releasing a number of MCU television series on Netflix, I was certainly pleased. I enjoy Agents of…

It takes an active effort to avoid a new James Bond film. The previous installment, Skyfall, took over a billion pounds worldwide and is…

Beware: Spoilers follow.

There’s something that very few games do, and that’s teach the player something. Sure, the odd game might teach us something emotionally on…

This time last year really was full of dark, tense films. And Nightcrawler may well be one of the darker films this Halloween — not because…

Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf sharing a tin box for two hours. Honestly, I went into this film expecting little more than some cool, explosive…

Guardians of the Galaxy was seen by many as Marvel’s wild card — a relatively unknown property that would push the boundaries of what…

If there’s a franchise that I wish would go extinct, it’s Transformers. Perhaps in a parallel universe the series is directed by David…

Oh, Besson. You took a film with plenty of promise, a talented cast and subsequent box-office success, and ruined it by not only basing it…

Much like Whiplash, Ex Machina is a film that I loved at the cinema, yet my writing on it hasn’t been published particularly publicly. A…

I saw Whiplash when it first came out in theatres, and was blown away. I watched it again upon its home release, and thought it was just as…

The Captain Marvel film has seen a number of tiny setbacks. First it has been delayed, going from a summer 2018 to late 2018 to early 2019…

It’s difficult to recommend Macbeth. Not because it isn’t a good film, but because it’s a great one. It’s so faithful to the source…

Ridley Scott’s triumphant return to the sci-fi genre.