Category: Films

Here is a very bland and derivative sci-fi adventure from Netflix, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, freely adapted from the illustrated YA novel by [more…]

There comes a time in every veteran actor’s career when they ask themselves: have I spent too long playing a large, talking tree? But for [more…]

Honestly, a title like Plankton: The Movie is about as difficult to evaluate as any movie that comes down the Hollywood pike or, in this [more…]

The woman in the jade-green suede biker jacket and tartan trousers sticks out her hand. “’Allo, I’m Twig,” she says. The name still sounds funny [more…]

I am generally wary of streaming platform originals, so often do they feel like the fast fashion of the film world: cheap, disposable, chasing ephemeral [more…]

Thanks to the unprecedented critical and commercial success of The Substance, horror is having a rare moment of recognition. In fact, you’d be willing to [more…]

20. Pushing Tin (1999) Cate Blanchett played a pretty generic “wife” role in this interesting, somewhat forgotten US comedy about air traffic controllers from director [more…]

Punching up is a valuable rule of thumb for comedians. When it comes to film and TV, however, few would insist on a blanket rule [more…]

A Hollywood veteran’s biopic about an anti-Nazi resistance martyr, which was nearly engulfed by the Trump-era culture wars during its US release, is on its [more…]

The late Dutch actor Rutger Hauer is probably still best known for his extraordinary turn as rebel replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, [more…]