Film Review: Logan Lucky (2017)
byIn 2001 Steven Soderbergh mastered the heist film with his suave and deceptively clever Ocean’s Eleven. But it only took him three years to forget…
Current Theatrical Releases
Film Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
byIt is strange that a director so lofty as Luc Besson should release a new film and instead draw praise for a film he…
Film Review: Annabelle: Creation (2017)
byAnnabelle: Creation has one of the biggest shocks any horror could deliver. It’s a sequel (well, technically a prequel) better than the original. Creation is…
Film Review: The Wall (2017)
byIraq, 2005. Two years after Bush the sequel stood in front of a banner that proudly declared ‘Mission Accomplished’, guerrilla warfare is still raging…
Film Review: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
byIn 2006 Al Gore rocked the world with An Inconvenient Truth, a watershed moment when the concept and threat of global warming finally slotted…
Film Review: Atomic Blonde (2017)
byInspired by the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City, David Leitch’s film, Atomic Blonde, brings ruthless heroine Lorraine Broughton to the screen in startling…
Film Review: The Big Sick (2017)
byThe Big Sick is the thoroughly authentic and enjoyable romantic comedy written by Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani about their own experience meeting and…
Film Review: The Trip to Spain (2017)
byWhen Steve Coogan suggests, (I’m)”Not up-and-coming. I’ve arrived“, it’s all very amusing. This is about himself as the fictional character he plays in Michael Winterbottom‘s latest installment of The…
Film Review: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
byOver the 54 years in which the Planet of the Apes’ franchise has been evolving, it has fluctuated between brilliant and forgettable. Nothing highlights…
Review: National Theatre Live: Obsession (2017)
byLuchino Visconti’s 1943 film Ossessione may be one of the lasting classics of Italian neo-realist cinema, but judging by Ivo van Hove’s clumsy adaptation…