Director: Craig Gillespie Starring: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale Given the extent to which she gripped the world’s attention back in 1994, it’s perhaps surprising that it’s taken Tonya Harding’s story nearly 25 years to make it to the big screen. In Craig Gillespie’s efforts to bring together the truly wild…
Director: Lee Unkrich Starring: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Edward James Olmos Legendary though Pixar may be, the animation studio’s recent form has been patchy at best – for every Inside Out there’s been a Good Dinosaur. Thankfully their Dia de Los Muertos-themed Coco is a wonderfully creative, if…
Director: Nick Park Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade, Rob Brydon Aardman is one of the most innovative entertainment studios working in the industry today. They basically shaped my childhood with the wonderful Wallace & Gromit and Creature Comforts shorts and have since moved into making fantastic feature-length animated movies…
Director: Richard Linklater Starring: Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson A new Richard Linklater film is always something to take notice of. Over the years he’s proven himself to be one of the most interesting directors working in Hollywood and he’s shown that he’s able to effectively work in all sorts of different…
Director: Guillermo Del Toro Starring: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer I am a sucker for modern fairy tales, and few people tell them so well as Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. An unashamed genre fan who gleefully cribs from folk tales and classic B-movies, he can be an…
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Starring: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Jonathan Banks, Elizabeth McGovern Liam Neeson is once again punching and kicking his way onto our cinema screens in The Commuter which marks the Irish actor’s fourth collaboration with Spanish director, Jaume Collet-Serra. They previously worked together on Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night. This…
Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, and Matthew Rhys Freedom of the press is something that’s being discussed at quite some length at the moment. With Trump starting to sound like a broken record spouting the words “fake news” every time the press writes something even slightly negative…
Director: Scott Cooper Starring: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach, and Q’orianka Kilcher ‘The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer,’ reads the D.H. Lawrence quote that opens Hostiles, the grimly and aptly titled new western from Scott Cooper. Set in 1892 in the later years of what is still…
Director: Aaron Sorkin Starring: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O’Dowd Aaron Sorkin basically invented the faced-paced walking-and-talking trope you now see in so many films and TV shows. He was the man behind all of that, yet no one can quite do it with the same panache. You can really tell when it’s…
Director: Jake Kasdan Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Rhys Darby Robin Williams’ first Jumanji film had its moments but I wouldn’t call it a classic like many people are inclined to do. It’s not in the same league as some of his other work. Films like Good…
Director: Martin Campbell Starring: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Rufus Jones, Michael McElhatton Martin Campbell’s an interesting director. He specialises in these action-heavy B-movies and has even directed a few Bond movie: Casino Royale and GoldenEye. He’s very much a mixed bag. On one hand, he’ll give you Casino Royale which is one of the better Bond films…
Director: Joel Edgerton Starring: Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Edgar Ramírez, Lucy Fry How can you start discussing a movie like David Ayer’s Bright… I could start off by saying that it’s a movie. Yep, it most certainly is a movie in the literal sense of the word. Is it just a bunch of images put…
Director: Martin McDonagh Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage It’s been twenty years since Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her legendary turn as a folksy Minnesota detective in Fargo. Now her superb performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the latest film from In Bruges-director Martin McDonagh, could see her…
Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Andy Serkis Star Wars is easily the world’s most recognisable movie franchise. It’s no wonder that so many people hold is so close to their hearts and even feel a certain ownership towards the space saga. Luke Skywalker, Han…
Director: James Franco Starring: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Jacki Weaver There are good films. There are bad films. There are very bad films. And then there are those films so terrible, so awe-inspiringly catastrophic, that they transcend badness and become something else entirely – the so-bad-it’s-good movie. And few representatives of this…
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Jeff Bauman in Stronger but is this the movie that will win him an Oscar? Read our review to find out.
Emma Stone is Billy Jean King and Steve Carell is Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes, but is it game, set and match for the movie? Here’s our review.
Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill and Claire Danes star in David McCary’s Brigsby Bear, but is it worth your time? Here’s our review.
Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash come together to save the world from the evil Steppenwolf, but is it any good? Here’s our review.
Aubrey Plaza and Elizabeth Olsen star in Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith’s Instagram-themed horror/comedy movie. Is it any good? Read our review.
