Reviews
Café Society (Woody Allen - 2016) Review: Play it again Woody
Cafe Society feels like you're ready to dismiss it and then you realise that you're engrossed to the point you can't look away.
Netflix's Mascots Review
Guest achieves dad-joke status with Mascots; the same faces, the same gags, the same set ups, the same polite laugher; dad, enough.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016) MOVIE REVIEW
Captain America: Civil War is very good, but the connective tissue between the powerful scenes, felt like chewy gristle in a great cut of steak.
Hail, Caesar! (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - 2016) Review
Watching Hail, Caesar! as a classic cinephile, you're going to have a whale of a time; if you're not, you'll probably only manage a snicker.
REVIEW: The Drop (Michael R. Roskam - 2014)
The Drop is a beautiful, tense thing to behold and a fitting film to bookend James Gandolfini’s career.
REVIEW: Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy - 2014)
Nightcrawler is American Psycho for a new generation.
REVIEW: Gone Girl (David Fincher - 2014)
David Fincher is the king of unsettling cinema. He’s an architect of dread and he manages to build something so entirely creepy and disturbing with Gone Girl that it makes Se7en feel like The Notebook. Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are his partners in crime – quite literally – and their performances should generate deserved awards season buzz.
REVIEW: Divergent (Neil Burger - 2014)
It’s the only female-led YA adult series to succeed at the box-office since the first Hunger Games, and while most of the others *cough The Mortal Instruments, The Host, Beastly, Beautiful Creatures cough* haven’t deserved the right to ignite a cinematic franchise, Divergent most certainly does.
REVIEW: Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas - 2014)
Veronica Mars, it’s good to see you again.
REVIEW: Pain and Gain (Michael Bay - 2013)
Pain and Gain begins with bodybuilder Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) grunting the words “I’m hot! “I’m big!” Coincidentally the film’s director Michael Bay probably chants the same mantra to himself each morning.