Film Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
byFor the third time in under forty years film fans are sitting down to watch the end of a Star Wars trilogy. The ninth…
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Film Review: The Addams Family (2019)
byAfter their involvement in the original and hilarious Sausage Party, directing pair Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon go the safe route with The Addams…
Film Review: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
byThe life and death of Vincent Van Gogh has been an obsession of the art world for 128 years now, and still the vision…
Film Review: Annihilation (2018)
byAnnihilationis a rarity – a film with action and intelligence, in equal measure. Alex Garland, who directed and adapted Jeff van der Meer’s novel,…
Film Review: The Promise (2016)
bySometimes it’s more important that a story is being told at all, than how it’s actually told. We should be searching for truth in…
Film Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
byThe next instalment of the quasi reboot featuring X-Men: First Class and then Days of Future Past is X-Men: Apocalypse. With the film featuring most of…
Film Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
byIt’s here. It’s actually finally here. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is a product that began its journey in 1977 when a…
Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)
byA great many science fiction stories have wrestled with the idea of artificial intelligence. In the case of the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot, and…
Film Review: A Most Violent Year (2014)
byStill a relative newbie on the scene, director and writer J.C. Chandor has quickly proved he can play up there with the big guns….
Film Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
byThis is truly virtuoso, expertly crafted film making, the only problem is that it’s just a little soulless, and just a little soullessness is a fairly big problem if it stops you caring about the characters. The Brothers, as usual, are more interested in the world they’re creating – and it’s impeccably done – but they forget to make us care about the people that populate it. Offering little resolution does little for them either.